Gamified coding: Toy robots and playful learning in early education

Katriina Heljakka; Pirita Ihamaki; Pauliina Tuomi; Petri Saarikoski

doi:10.1109/CSCI49370.2019.00152

Gamified coding: Toy robots and playful learning in early education

Katriina Heljakka, Pirita Ihamaki, Pauliina Tuomi, Petri Saarikoski

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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.

Alkuperäiskieli	Englanti
Otsikko	Proceedings - 6th Annual Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2019
Kustantaja	IEEE
Sivut	800-805
Sivumäärä	6
ISBN (elektroninen)	9781728155845
DOI - pysyväislinkit	https://doi.org/10.1109/CSCI49370.2019.00152
Tila	Julkaistu - 1 jouluk. 2019
OKM-julkaisutyyppi	A4 Artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa
Tapahtuma	International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence - Las Vegas, Yhdysvallat Kesto: 5 jouluk. 2019 → 7 jouluk. 2019

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence
Maa/Alue	Yhdysvallat
Kaupunki	Las Vegas
Ajanjakso	5/12/19 → 7/12/19

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Artificial Intelligence
Computer Networks and Communications
Signal Processing
Hardware and Architecture
Computational Theory and Mathematics

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Heljakka, K, Ihamaki, P, Tuomi, P & Saarikoski, P 2019, Gamified coding: Toy robots and playful learning in early education. julkaisussa Proceedings - 6th Annual Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2019., 9071010, IEEE, Sivut 800-805, International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, Las Vegas, Yhdysvallat, 5/12/19. https://doi.org/10.1109/CSCI49370.2019.00152

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