"Jag blir blir varm i hjärtat när jag ser ett annat barn lära ut"

• Main Authors: Gehrisch, Johan, Ellerstrand Törnwall, Anna
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS) 2017
• Subjects: Computational Thinking; Education; Preschool; Programming; Transdisciplinary learning; Technology; Datalogiskt tänkande; Programmering; Förskola; Lärande; Teknik; Transdisciplinärt lärande; Engineering and Technology; Teknik och teknologier
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-29060

The constant growth of technology in our world is changing the way of life all around us.We now have self-driving cars that are programmed by us to drive so we don't have to.The fact that most of us can't go a day without using something that is programmed orengineered to suit our needs is the way of life for kids nowadays. In this essay we havechosen to study programming in a preschool context.The Swedish government is planning to implement a new curriculum in 2018 that will bemore focused on digital knowledge. There is very little historical research on whatknowledge and skills children acquire and develop when they work with programmingso we wanted to do research on this subject. We have interviewed preschool teachers insouthern Sweden and created an activity where we studied preschool children playingwith programming tools in a social context to gather data on the subject. We haveanalyzed and interpreted our data with the help of Lev Vygotsky's sociocultural theory.Our results showed that all of the teachers thought programming was a good tool to workwith in preschool and gave us examples of benefits from working with programming.Most of them talked about learning through social interaction and said that the childrendeveloped better mathematical skills, social skills, problem solving skills andcomputational thinking. In our modern world, where our contact with technology isconstantly growing, research shows that having an early understanding of basicprogramming and the digital world will be highly beneficial in the future.