Abstract
This paper explores the activity of coding with smart toy robots Dash and Botley as a part of playful learning in the Finnish early education context. The findings of our study demonstrate how coding with the two toy robots was approached, conducted and played by Finnish preschoolers aged 5-6 years. The main conclusion of the study is that preschoolers used the toy robots with affordances related to coding mainly in developing gamified play around them by designing tracks for the toys, programming the toys to solve obstacle paths, and competing in player-generated contests of dexterity, speed and physically mobile play.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings - 6th Annual Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2019 |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Pages | 800-805 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781728155845 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2019 |
| Publication type | A4 Article in conference proceedings |
| Event | International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence - Las Vegas, United States Duration: 5 Dec 2019 → 7 Dec 2019 |
Conference
| Conference | International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Las Vegas |
| Period | 5/12/19 → 7/12/19 |
Keywords
- Coding
- Gamification
- Physical play
- Programming
- Toy robots
Publication forum classification
- Publication forum level 0
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Signal Processing
- Hardware and Architecture
- Computational Theory and Mathematics