This paper presents a review of computational toys and kits that enable young children
(ages 7 years old and under) to explore computational ideas and practices. We collected 30 …

Wearable construction toolkits have shown promise in broadening participation in
computing and empowering users to create personally meaningful computational designs …

Recently, efforts have been made to add programming activities to the curriculum that
promote computational thinking and foster 21st-century digital skills. One of the …

Block-based programming languages can support novice programmers through features
such as simplified code syntax and user-friendly libraries. However, most block-based …

Computational thinking (CT) education reaches only a fraction of young children, in part
because CT learning tools often require expensive hardware or fluent literacy. Informed by …

Machine Learning (ML) is often used invisibly in everyday applications with little opportunity
for consumers to investigate how it works. In this paper, we expand recent efforts to unfold …

This paper presents a survey of computational kits that enable young children (ages 7 years
old and under) to explore computing ideas and practices. We examined physical, virtual …

Across the world, policy initiatives are being developed to engage children with computer
programming and computational thinking. Diversity and inclusion has been a strong force in …

Computational thinking (CT) education reaches only a fraction of young children, in part
because CT learning tools often require expensive hardware or fluent literacy. Block-based …

While recent work has begun to evaluate the efficacy of educational programming games,
many common design decisions in these games (eg, single player gameplay using …