Beyond Coding: How Children Learn Human Values Through Programming Bers Marina Umaschi
Beyond Coding: How Children Learn Human Values Through Programming Bers Marina Umaschi Why children should be taught coding not as a technical skill but as a new literacy--a way to express themselves…
Specifikacia Beyond Coding: How Children Learn Human Values Through Programming Bers Marina Umaschi
Beyond Coding: How Children Learn Human Values Through Programming Bers Marina Umaschi
Why children should be taught coding not as a technical skill but as a new literacy--a way to express themselves and engage with the world.Today, schools are introducing STEM education and robotics to children in ever-lower grades. Presenting code as a universal language, she shows how children discover new ways of thinking, relating, and behaving through creative coding activities. 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.
But cultivating strength of character, socioeconomic maturity, and a moral compass alongside that knowledge, says Bers, is crucial.Bers, a leading proponent of teaching computational thinking and coding as early as preschool Today's children will undoubtedly have the technical knowledge to change the world.