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Beyond Coding: How Children Learn Human Values Through Programming

Beyond Coding: How Children Learn Human Values Through Programming

Beyond Coding: How Children Learn Human Values Through Programming
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Beyond Coding: How Children Learn Human Values Through Programming Paperback - 2022

by Bers, Marina Umaschi

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MIT Press, 2022. Paperback. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Beyond Coding: How Children Learn Human Values Through Programming
  • Author Bers, Marina Umaschi
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 232
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher MIT Press
  • Publication date 2022
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G026254332XI4N10
  • ISBN 9780262543323 / 026254332X
  • Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 5.98 x 0.63 in (22.81 x 15.19 x 1.60 cm)
  • Category Education / Teaching
  • Library of Congress subjects Child development, Computers and children
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2021013278
  • Dewey Decimal Code 372.210
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

Why children should be taught coding not as a technical skill but as a new literacy--a way to express themselves and engage with the world.

Today, schools are introducing STEM education and robotics to children in ever-lower grades. In Beyond Coding, Marina Umaschi Bers lays out a pedagogical roadmap for teaching code that encompasses the cultivation of character along with technical knowledge and skills. Presenting code as a universal language, she shows how children discover new ways of thinking, relating, and behaving through creative coding activities. Today's children will undoubtedly have the technical knowledge to change the world. But cultivating strength of character, socioeconomic maturity, and a moral compass alongside that knowledge, says Bers, is crucial.

Bers, a leading proponent of teaching computational thinking and coding as early as preschool and kindergarten, presents examples of children and teachers using the Scratch Jr. and Kibo robotics platforms to make explicit some of the positive values implicit in the process of learning computer science. If we are to do right by our children, our approach to coding must incorporate the elements of a moral education: the use of narrative to explore identity and values, the development of logical thinking to think critically and solve technical and ethical problems, and experiences in the community to enable personal relationships. Through learning the language of programming, says Bers, it is possible for diverse cultural and religious groups to find points of connection, put assumptions and stereotypes behind them, and work together toward a common goal.

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Citations

  • Choice, 08/01/2023, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 02/01/2022, Page 78

About the author

Marina Umaschi Bers is Professor and Chair of the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer Science. She directs the interdisciplinary DevTech Research Group.

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