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Beyond Coding

Name: Beyond Coding
Brand: The MIT Press
SKU: 9780262543323-MTUSDTR
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How Children Learn Human Values through Programming

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232 pages • 15.24 x 22.86 x 1.32 cm

Approx. weight: 0.28 kg

Publication date: 22 Mar,2022

Barcode/ ISBN: 9780262543323 • The MIT Press

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By: Marina Umaschi Bers

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.