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.

塔夫茨大学和马萨诸塞州理工学院之间的这个合作项目正在研究和开发一种新版本的Scratch编程语言，称为ScratchJr，专为幼儿教育（K-2）设计。目前广泛使用的Scratch版本适用于8-16岁的儿童，不适合幼儿的发育。这项工作将提供有关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的研究为基础的证据。该团队将在一个迭代周期中开发SundechJr，在塔夫茨的Devtech实验室和艾略特皮尔逊实验室学校以及更广泛的幼儿合作伙伴网络中进行测试。 在为期三年的项目结束时，SundechJr将与大约350名K-2学生，40名家长和58名幼儿教育工作者进行测试。SockchJr将有三个组成部分：1）一个适合发展的界面，有触摸屏和键盘/鼠标选项; 2）一个嵌入式的课程模块库，包含STEM内容，以满足联邦和州在幼儿教育方面的要求; 3）一个面向幼儿教育工作者和家长的在线资源和社区。 研究问题的重点是SoccchJr是否可以帮助这些幼儿学习基础知识结构，如排序，因果关系，分类，组成，符号，模式，估计和预测;具体内容知识;和解决问题的技能。 这一跨学科的建议为学习技术，幼儿教育和人机交互领域做出了贡献。SoccchJr具有在正式和非正式场合广泛实施的潜力。