Collaborative Research: ScratchJr: Computer Programming in Early Childhood Education as a Pathway to Academic Readiness and Success

合作研究：ScratchJr：幼儿教育中的计算机编程作为学术准备和成功的途径

• 批准号: 1118682
• 负责人: Mitchel Resnick
• 金额: $ 53.13万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1118682&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; ScratchJr; Computer; Programming

This collaborative project between Tufts University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is researching and developing a new version of the Scratch programming language to be called ScratchJr, designed specifically for early childhood education (K-2). The current version of Scratch, which is widely implemented, is intended for ages 8-16 and is not developmentally appropriate for young children. This work will provide research-based evidence regarding young children's abilities to use an object-oriented programming language and to study the impact this has on the children's learning of scientific concepts and procedures. The team will develop ScratchJr in an iterative cycle, testing it in both in the Devtech lab at Tufts and the Eliot Pearson lab school and with a wider network of early childhood partners. At the end of the three-year project, ScratchJr will have been tested with approximately 350 students in K-2, 40 parents, and 58 early childhood educators. ScratchJr will have three components: 1) a developmentally appropriate interface, with both touch screen and keyboard/mouse options; 2) an embedded library of curricular modules with STEM content to meet federal and state mandates in early childhood education; and 3) an on-line resource and community for early childhood educators and parents. The research questions focus on whether ScratchJr can help these young children learn foundational knowledge structures such as sequencing, causality, classification, composition, symbols, patterns, estimation, and prediction; specific content knowledge; and problem solving skills. This interdisciplinary proposal makes contributions to the fields of learning technologies, early childhood education and human computer interaction. ScratchJr has the potential for broad implementation in both formal and informal settings.

塔夫茨大学与马萨诸塞州理工学院之间的合作项目正在研究和开发一种新版本的Scratch编程语言，该语言被称为ScratchJr，该语言被称为ScratchJr，专门为幼儿教育（K-2）设计。当前版本的SCRATCH已被广泛实施，适用于8-16岁，并且在发育中不适合幼儿。这项工作将提供基于研究的证据，以了解幼儿使用面向对象的编程语言的能力，并研究这对儿童学习科学概念和程序的影响。该团队将在迭代周期中开发ScratchJr，并在Tufts的Devtech Lab和Eliot Pearson Lab School以及更广泛的幼儿合作伙伴网络中对其进行测试。 在为期三年的项目结束时，Scratchjr将接受K-2的大约350名学生，40名父母和58名幼儿教育工作者的测试。 ScratchJr将有三个组件：1）具有触摸屏和键盘/鼠标选项的开发界面； 2）具有STEM内容的课程模块的嵌入式库，以满足幼儿教育中的联邦和州任务； 3）幼儿教育者和父母的在线资源和社区。 研究问题的重点是ScratchJr是否可以帮助这些幼儿学习基础知识结构，例如测序，因果关系，分类，组成，符号，模式，估计和预测；特定的内容知识；和解决问题的技能。 该跨学科的建议为学习技术，幼儿教育和人类计算机互动的领域做出了贡献。 Scratchjr具有在正式和非正式环境中的广泛实施。