Why Bee-Bot?
Bee-Bot makes young children think and understand how to communicate with a computer!
I work at a childcare center. When I first heard about children coding computers, I thought that children needed to play more, not study computer coding. However, when I met Bee-Bot, I found out that Bee-Bot activities can give children opportunities to solve problems. It leads children to think and understand how to communicate with a computer, as well as cooperate with their classmates.
Through playing Bee-Bot activities with children I also realized that the teacher’s role is important, especially in motivating children in Bee-Bot activities and providing appropriate activities for the children’s levels. This is because the teacher’s role in Bee-Bot activities can help children think and solve problems on their own.
How to motivate?
So young children can think by themselves.
Storytelling is an excellent motivation for young children playing in Bee-Bot activities. After reading a story, young children are involved in the story. So children have a mission relating to the story. They are willing to think and try to solve the mission by themselves.
Mission of Story ‘Pinocchio’
-It is time to go to school! Where should Bee-bot go?
How to provide appropriate activities at the children’s level?
Appropriate Bee-Bot activities for the children’s level give children interest and willingness to play with Bee-Bot. It encourages children to solve a problem on their own.
Appropriate activities for children’s level are important, and teachers’ guidance and questions are also important. To help children think, teachers should guide activities, not teach. If children have a problem in playing with Bee-Bot activities, teachers should give children a question so that children can think about the problem. Teachers’ guidance and questions help children think and solve problems on their own.
Bee-Bot activities are good for young children to understand how to communicate with a computer, too.
Contact Information
| Name | Jae Kyung Lee |
| School | Childcare center |
| Location | Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea |
| whgdkgu@hanmail.net | |
| Website | https://www.facebook.com/Jikycoding |
| Tags | Bee-Bot, Asia |
| Age | 3 years |