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Beyond Coding: How Children Learn Human Values through Programming
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Bers, Marina Umaschi – MIT Press, 2022
Today, schools are introducing STEM education and robotics to children in ever-lower grades. In "Beyond Coding," Marina Umaschi Bers lays out a pedagogical roadmap for teaching code that encompasses the cultivation of character along with technical knowledge and skills. Presenting code as a universal language, she shows how children…
Descriptors: Programming, Computer Science Education, Teaching Methods, Moral Values
Programming the XBOT. Resources in Technology.
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Deal, Walter F., III – Technology Teacher, 1999
Describes a unit on robotics that includes problem solving, working together, and constructing and programming a robot. Provides students with an opportunity for critical thinking. (JOW)
Descriptors: Computers, Elementary Education, Programming, Robotics
Robotics: Design through Geometry.
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Moore, Virginia S. – Technology Teacher, 1999
Describes an interdisciplinary unit on robotics that includes teaching parts of a circle, constructing and programming robots, and incorporating language arts. (JOW)
Descriptors: Computers, Elementary Education, Geometry, Language Arts
Introducing Robotics at the Undergraduate Level.
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Thangiah, Sam R.; Joshi, Sharad W. – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 1997
Outlines how a course in robotics can be taught at the undergraduate level with specific experiments that can be used for incremental learning in programming a mobile robot or by simulating the actions of a robot. Contains 14 references. (Author/ASK)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Educational Technology, Higher Education, Mathematics Education