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Introducing programming in an early primary technology classroom: the distinction between human and robot
Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences. Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Division of Learning, Aesthetics, Natural Science.
Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences. Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Division of Learning, Aesthetics, Natural Science.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5721-7719
2024 (English)In: Programming and computational thinking in technology education: Swedish and international perspectives / [ed] Jonas Hallström, Marc J. de Vries, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2024, Vol. Sidorna 271-290, p. 271-290Chapter in book (Other academic)
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Since 2018, programming is a content in the technology subject in Sweden. Thus, teachers must develop new subject-specific competence to be able to realize their teaching in and about programming. This is especially challenging for primary teachers since primary technology education is a young subject and lacks a common professional base of proven experience. Research focusing on the classroom practices that are now taking form, and which are based on teachers’ use of tutorials provided from different resources, is scarce. Hence, our understanding of which programming-related knowledge is possible to develop through participation in these practices is very limited. As a novice, understanding the meaning of programming assumes an understanding of what a computational device may—or may not— ‘understand’ in relation to a human. When it comes to introducing early primary pupils to the concept of programming, there are examples of tutorials describing activities that focus on this very issue. In the study reported in this chapter, we explore an activity during an introductory lesson in programming in an early primary classroom, where the teacher used such a tutorial aimed to prompt reflections about the differences between a human and a robot. The aim of the study was to explore what content is constituted and hence what knowledge pupils are enabled to develop during this introductory activity. The results showed that the constituted content focused on a central difference between human and robot; humans, as opposed to robots, have own will and ability to think. However, the analysis also showed that the pupils had ideas beyond this rather narrow content, and that classroom conversations with the youngest pupils about the differences between a human and a robot are, in several ways, challenging to orchestrate.

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Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2024. Vol. Sidorna 271-290, p. 271-290
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-200436Libris ID: bv8gbd7n8l360nwpISBN: 9789004687912 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-200436DiVA, id: diva2:1831205
Available from: 2024-01-25 Created: 2024-01-25 Last updated: 2024-05-30Bibliographically approved

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