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I believe that an early age-appropriate introduction to computer programming will help them develop the skills of problem solving, critical thinking, spatial reasoning, and sequential reasoning. I am using CODE.org and Spheros with my older students, but for pre-literate or beginning readers, these tools are too complex. I would like Bee-Bots, bee-shaped robots with symbolic command buttons that make sense to children. This will allow children to construct a path for their Blue-Bots and program them to follow the path. I have worked with Bee-Bots in a previous school and seen the way K-1 students respond to them. The sheer joy expressed in shrieks and happy dances when the Bee-Bots come out would warm any teacher’s heart. The concentration in their faces as they try to push the right series of commands to program the robots to complete a task, however, is the greatest reward. They learn left, right, sequencing, rethinking, debugging, and they collaborate in problem solving. My youngest students will think they are playing while they are learning to think critically and building an excellent foundation for the rest of their computer programming instruction.

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I believe that an early age-appropriate introduction to computer programming will help them develop the skills of problem solving, critical thinking, spatial reasoning, and sequential reasoning. I am using CODE.org and Spheros with my older students, but for pre-literate or beginning readers, these tools are too complex. I would like Bee-Bots, bee-shaped robots with symbolic command buttons that make sense to children. This will allow children to construct a path for their Blue-Bots and program them to follow the path. I have worked with Bee-Bots in a previous school and seen the way K-1 students respond to them. The sheer joy expressed in shrieks and happy dances when the Bee-Bots come out would warm any teacher’s heart. The concentration in their faces as they try to push the right series of commands to program the robots to complete a task, however, is the greatest reward. They learn left, right, sequencing, rethinking, debugging, and they collaborate in problem solving. My youngest students will think they are playing while they are learning to think critically and building an excellent foundation for the rest of their computer programming instruction.

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