Research On Computational Thinking In Programming Problem Solving For 5-6 Years Old Children

With the advent of the era of artificial intelligence and the digital age,in order to maintain competitiveness,people need to have future-oriented computing thinking.Studies have shown that,programming is an important carrier for developing computational thinking in young children.On this basis,the researcher had chosen to carry out a computational thinking research about in the programming activities of children aged 5-6,and had made observations and analysis of their performance detaily in programming activities.This research had used programming problem-solving tasks to explore the computational thinking of children aged 5-6,and used observation and interview methods to explore the development level and behavioral performance of computational thinking of children aged 5-6.In this study,36 young children aged 5-6(18 boys,18 girls,average monthly age 71.86)in Nanjing B kindergarten were selected to investigate the developmental level and behavioral performance of computational thinking in different programming task situations through programming problem solving tasks and potential category analysis.The study found that:First,children aged 5-6 have shown a obvious ability of computational thinking.Second,the computational thinking of children aged 5-6 have individual differences.Third,the computational thinking's development of children aged 5-6 is identical with their cognitive development level.Based on the results of the study,the following education suggestions were put forward:carry out programming activities for young children according to local conditions;take advantage of games to mobilize children's autonomy and interest in programming activities;focus on the development of computational thinking when carrying out programming activities;Respect individual differences in young children's computational thinking.