Topobo in kindergarten: Educational robotics promoting dedicated learning

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 690-697

  Virnes, Marjo ^a   Sutinen, Erkki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dedicated learning; Early childhood education; Educational robotics; Kindergarten; Topobo

Indexed keywords

CHILDHOOD EDUCATION; DEDICATED LEARNING; EDUCATIONAL ROBOTICS; KINDERGARTEN; TOPOBO;

RESEARCH; ROBOTICS; SEMANTICS;

EDUCATION;

EID: 79951892694     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

1. Jonassen, D. H., Howland, J., Moore, J., & Marra, R. M. (2003). Learning to solve problems with technology: A constructivist perspective (2nd ed.). United States: Merrill Prentice Hall.
2. Levy, S. T., & Mioduser, D. (2008). Does it "want" or "was it programmed to⋯"? Kindergarten children's explanations of an autonomous robot's adaptive functioning. International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 18(4), 337-359.
3. O'Malley, C., & Stanton Fraser, D. (2004). Literature review in learning with tangible technologies. (No. 12) Futurelab. Retrieved from http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/documents/lit-reviews/Tangible-Review.pdf
4. Papert, S. (1980). Mindstorms: Children, computers and powerful ideas. Brighton: Harvester.
5. Parkes, A. J., Raffle, H., & Ishii, H. (2008). Topobo in the wild: Longitudinal evaluations of educators appropriating a tangible interface. Paper presented at the Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Florence, Italy. 1129-1138.
6. Strauss, A., & Corbin, J. (1998). Basics of qualitative research: Techniques and procedures for developing grounded theory (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications.
7. Transana. WWW: http://www.transana.org/
8. Wyeth, P. (2008). How young children learn to program with sensor, action, and logic blocks. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 17(4), 517-550.