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Item Nr: B 96933 Title: Coding as a Playground: Programming and Computational Thinking in the Early Childhood Classroom
Grade Lvl: T Author: Bers, Marina Umaschi
Length: 196 Prod/Pub: Routledge
Copyright: 2017 Series:
Book Type: N Biographee:
Copies: 0 Loan Period: 14 days
 
  Coding as a Playground is the first book to focus on how young children (ages 7 and under) can engage in computational thinking and be taught to become computer programmers, a process that can increase both their cognitive and social-emotional skills. Readers will learn how coding can engage children as producers―and not merely consumers―of technology in a playful way. You will come away from this groundbreaking work with an understanding of how coding promotes developmentally appropriate experiences such as problem solving, imagination, cognitive challenges, social interactions, motor skills development, emotional exploration, and making different choices. You will also learn how to integrate coding into different curricular areas to promote literacy, math, science, engineering and the arts through a project-based approach.

  Subjects:
  1899 - CODING/COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
  1963 - COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
  2042 - COMPUTER SCIENCE
  815 - EARLY CHILDHOOD
  1944 - INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
  1897 - STEM/STEAM
  1069 - THINKING/THINKING SKILLS