A Practical Study On The Feasibility Of Programming Education In Cultivating Children's Computational Thingking

With the rapid development of computer information technology,the use of computer has penetrated into every field of daily life.This means that modern society requires everyone to have computer-related skills,which will be as important as reading,writing and calculating skills in the21 st century.Moreover,each skill is an external representation of a way of thinking,and researchers agree that computational thinking is a key skill that people should have today.For cultivating computational thinking,research has shown that programming is a good starting point,not just learning to program this one skill,more important is the programming of learning to cultivate the students' ability and quality at the same time,the British in 2014,a national curriculum standard issued by the programming course as a required course,5-16 years old in addition,study abroad 4 years old children have been able to master the simple programming skills,cultivating the calculation way of thinking and it is,is not easy,especially in the way of thinking has already set,want to change is more difficult,so programming education should not only focus on the higher education stage,It is equally important to infiltrate basic education and even preschool education.Preschool programming education should emphasize the experience,operability and practicality,respect and satisfy the learning characteristics of children,and pay attention to the social development of children by environmental design while developing knowledge and skills.Therefore,in order to get rid of the disadvantages of traditional programming education as a mere form,this paper explores ways to integrate the cultivation of computational thinking into children's programming education,and explores a more scientific and reasonable teaching mode.Therefore,this study took ADDIE model as the teaching design model,combined with professor Marin's Positive Technological Development theory of "Positive Technological Development"(PTD for short),designed and practiced the learning environment of programming education courses,promoted the Development of children's computational thinking and the Development of six qualities of PTD.This study,on the one hand,explores the way and feasibility of introducing programming education into preschool education to cultivate children's computational thinking.On the other hand,it hopes to localize early programming education from American teaching methods and promote the cultivation and promotion of children's computational thinking and sociality through the introduction of programming.Convenientsampling was used to select 30 large class children from a public kindergarten in Shanghai.There were 15 children in the experimental group and control group.Children in the experimental group were taught programming courses for 8 times,while children in the control group were taught normal courses.Using nonparametric t test and analysis of covariance analysis data processing,the results show that calculated by programming education can effectively improve their thinking,children can learn simple programming skills,understanding of the complex syntax and master needs more practice time and adult support,Using the theory of PTD programming teaching environment design can effectively improve the quality of children's development,in addition,the study also found that children's executive function and mathematical ability improved after programming practice.However,the positive effect of this programming education on mathematical ability was not significant.