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Robotic Technologies: When Parents Put Their Learning Ahead of their Child’s
Laura Beals; Marina Bers
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 17, No. 4 (October 2006) pp. 341–366
New technologies are slowly making it into the early childhood classroom; however, many families expose their children to these technologies before they encounter them in the formal school setting. Thus, many parents serve as the first teachers of...
Topics: Computers, Interaction, Children, Collaboration, Early Childhood Education, Robotics, Adults, Creativity, Learning Outcomes, Research Methods
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Teachers as Designers: Integrating Robotics in Early Childhood Education
Marina U. Bers; Iris Ponte; Catherine Juelich; Alison Viera; Jonathan Schenker
Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual Vol. 2002, No. 1 (2002) pp. 123–145
This article presents a constructionist approach to introducing technology, in particular robotics, in the early childhood classroom. The authors demonstrate how this approach is well suited, since the four basic tenets of constructionism have a...
Topics: Learning Objects, Integration, Robotics, Early Childhood Education, Classrooms