Robótica para desarrollar el pensamiento computacional en Educación Infantil

  1. Ana García-Valcárcel Muñoz-Repiso 1
  2. Yen-Air Caballero-González 2
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

  2. 2 Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá
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    Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá

    Panamá, Panamá

    ROR https://ror.org/030ve2c48

Revista:
Comunicar: Revista Científica de Comunicación y Educación

ISSN: 1134-3478

Año de publicación: 2019

Título del ejemplar: Medios móviles emergentes. Convergencia comunicativa en el nuevo escenario mediático

Número: 59

Páginas: 63-72

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.3916/C59-2019-06 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

Otras publicaciones en: Comunicar: Revista Científica de Comunicación y Educación

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Resumen

The development of programming skills is currently promoting from an early school age, trying to get children to take an active and creative role in the use of technologies. The objective of this article is to verify the repercussion of educational robotics activities on kindergarten students in the acquisition of computational thinking and programming skills. The research design is quasi-experimental, with pre-test and post-test measures, using experimental and control groups. The sample consists of 131 students from the second cycle of early education (between 3 and 6 years old), all from the same Spanish school. Computational thinking is measured through three dimensions: sequences (algorithms), action-instruction correspondence and debugging. The intervention sessions, as well as the structure of the challenges that were used in the pre- and post-test evaluations, were designed based on the reference program of robotics studies called “TangibleK”. The intervention, carried out doing learning activities using educational robotics resources, presents positive results in relation to the computational thinking skills achieved. The differences between the pre-test and the post-test in the experimental and control groups are statistically significant, in that children engaged in robotics program achieves a greater advance in the three dimensions of computational competence through this method.

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Secretaría Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (SENACYT) e Instituto para la Formación y Aprovechamiento de los Recursos Humanos (IFARHU) de la República de Panamá.

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