Robotics in Early Childhood Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 402-423
Author(s):  
Anastasia Kalogiannidou ◽  
Georgia Natsiou ◽  
Melpomeni Tsitouridou
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Social Development ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
21St Century Skills ◽  
Educational Robotics ◽  
Educational Settings ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Promising Tool

Robotics is a very promising tool and a highly innovative field that brings a new dimension in educational settings. Educational robotics is recognized as a valuable means for cultivating 21st-century skills, having the potential to promote learning, cognitive and social development, and preschoolers' engagement with STEM topics in a playful way. Nevertheless, the absence of a well-articulated pedagogy of teaching robotics and with robotics impacts the clarity of its guidelines, scope, and objectives. There is a lack of frameworks for teaching robotics in early childhood education, especially one that includes objectives and teaching methods in a balanced way. This is the challenge that the current chapter aims to address: to outline the initial orientations of a framework that includes educational robotics objectives and appropriate teaching methods for early childhood education.

scholarly journals The role of federal and state policy in addressing early childhood achievement gaps: parent perceptions and student outcomes related to 21st Century Learning Centers programming in the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather P. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Learning Centers ◽  
Community Learning Centers ◽  
Community Learning ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractAs policymakers and school communities work to address underlying causes of achievement gaps and access to quality early childhood education, this study considers the use of 21st Century Community Learning Centers to address early childhood education needs on western U.S. state, Idaho. The study sought to understand the relationship between federal and state policies related to out-of-school opportunities to enhance early childhood education. Utilizing data from a statewide evaluation of Idaho’s 21st Century Learning Centers, the study examined 92 centers providing after school, before school, or summer programs in grades preschool through the third grade to predominately at-risk children. Data collection included quantitative data from a survey given to parents (n = 183), as well as qualitative data collected through site-based interviews, focus groups and observations. Data included a review of historical and current data on participation rates; attendance rates; standardized test scores for program participants in grades PK-3 (n = 3258). Data were analyzed for themes and transfer. The study findings provide further insight into understanding possible relationships between U.S. federal and state policy regarding 21st Century Community Learning Centers on both students’ outcomes and parent satisfaction. The findings further support the role of out-of-school time (OST) experiences in the larger ecosystem of learning and provides insight into understanding how the OST activities are carried over into family life.

scholarly journals Influence of the Psychomotor Profile in the Improvement of Learning in Early Childhood Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (23) ◽  
pp. 12655
Author(s):  
Francisco José Borrego-Balsalobre ◽  
Alfonso Martínez-Moreno ◽  
Vicente Morales-Baños ◽  
Arturo Díaz-Suárez
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Motor Skills ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Psychomotor Skills ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Infant School ◽  
Stimulation Of

The development of psychomotor skills in childhood enables children to organise the outside world through their bodies, contributing to their intellectual, affective, and social development. The present study aimed to longitudinally evaluate the psychomotor profile, throughout three academic years, of 3, 4 and 5-year-olds belonging to the second cycle of infant school, relating it descriptively to academic performance. The sample consisted of 82 subjects aged between 3 and 6 years throughout the study. The distribution of the sample was homogeneous, with 47.6% boys (n = 39) and 52.4% girls (n = 43). The results not only highlight the importance of the development and stimulation of motor skills from an early age for the overall development of the child, but also, when related to previous studies, show how they influence the development of human beings in adulthood.

From Computational Thinking to Computational Doing

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Marina Umaschi Bers
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Computer Programming ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Broad Definition ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Computational Literacy

Computer programming is becoming an essential skill in the 21st century, and in order to best prepare future generations, the promotion of computational thinking and literacy must begin in early childhood education. Computational thinking can be defined in many ways. The broad definition offered in this chapter is that computational thinking practices refer to techniques applied by humans to express themselves by designing and constructing computation. This chapter claims that one of the fundamental ways in which computational thinking can be supported and augmented is by providing children with opportunities to code and to create their own interactive computational media. Thus, computational literacy will allow children to become producers and not only consumers of digital artifacts and systems.

Belonging and language

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-182
Author(s):  
Chris Peers
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Existentialist Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Debates

This article contributes to a growing debate within the field of early childhood education about the concept of ‘belonging’. It continues from earlier discussions that commented on the adoption of Belonging as a key term in the development of a national curriculum for the early years in Australia in 2009, as well as increasingly common references to belonging in various aspects of debate within the field. The article focuses specifically on the idea of belonging as it has emerged within existentialist philosophy in the 20th century, and more recent post-structuralist theories, especially the work of Jacques Derrida. The article ties belonging to language as a means of redefining approaches in early childhood education to the notions of place and context, so as to more rigorously connect ‘belonging’ to the philosophical debates of the 21st century.

scholarly journals PENERAPAN PEMBELAJARAN ANAK USIA DINI BERBASIS KECERDASAN MAJEMUK (MULTIPLEINTELLIGENCES)

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-233
Author(s):  
Ellen Prima
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Multiple Intelligences ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Important Thing ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Early Childhood Learning

Abstract: Education is a very important thing for children or adults. Education becomes one of the capital for a person to be successful and able to achieve success in his life. Especially Early Childhood Education (PAUD) has developed rapidly. PAUD service is a coaching effort aimed at children from birth up to the age of six that is done through the provision of educational stimulus to assist growth and physical and spiritual development so that children have readiness in entering further education. Therefore, early childhood with their respective potential needs to be given a friendly learning and appreciate every potential of their intelligence. The purpose of this study is to improve the activity and creativity of early childhood education based on multiple intelligences and provide knowledge about the application of learning based on multiple intelligences. This research uses qualitative method of descriptive type. The results of this study indicate that the application of early childhood learning based on multiple intelligences requires educators must have the power of creativity by using various teaching methods that vary.Key words :learning, multiple intelligences, early childhood   Abstrak:Pendidikan adalah hal yang sangat penting untuk diperoleh anak-anak ataupun orang dewasa. Pendidikan menjadi salah satu modal bagi seseorang agar dapat berhasil dan mampu meraih kesuksesan dalam hidupnya. Khususnya Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini (PAUD) mengalami perkembangan yang pesat. Layanan PAUD merupakan suatu upaya pembinaan yang ditujukan kepada anak sejak lahir sampai dengan usia enam tahun yang dilakukan melalui pemberian rangsangan pendidikan untuk membantu pertumbuhan dan perkembangan jasmani dan rohani agar anak memiliki kesiapan dalam memasuki pendidikan lebih lanjut. Oleh karena itu, anak usia dini dengan potensinya masing-masing perlu diberikan adanya pembelajaran yang ramah dan menghargai setiap potensi kecerdasan yang mereka miliki.Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk meningkatkan keaktifan dan kreativitas pembelajaran PAUD berbasis kecerdasan majemuk anak dan memberikan pengetahuan tentang penerapan pembelajaran berbasis kecerdasan majemuk. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif jenis deskriptif. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa penerapan pembelajaran anak usia dini berbasis kecerdasan majemuk menuntut pendidik harus memiliki daya kreativitas dengan menggunakan berbagai metode pembelajaran yang bervariasi. Kata kunci : pembelajaran, kecerdasan majemuk, anak usia dini

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