{"id":11290,"date":"2024-10-15T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T17:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/?page_id=11290"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:17:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:17:02","slug":"coding-as-a-playground","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/coding-as-a-playground\/","title":{"rendered":"Coding as a Playground"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2024\/09\/Group-522-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10777\" style=\"width:338px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2024\/09\/Group-522-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2024\/09\/Group-522-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2024\/09\/Group-522-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2024\/09\/Group-522-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2024\/09\/Group-522-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2024\/09\/Group-522-2048x2048.png 2048w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2024\/09\/Group-522-230x230.png 230w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2024\/09\/Group-522-365x365.png 365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">When engaging children in a technology-rich learning experience, we welcome and promote play. Through play we can impact all areas of human development: cognitive, socio-emotional, language, moral, physical and even spiritual. The coding playground, in contrast with the coding playpen, promotes opportunities for open-ended exploration, creation of personally meaningful projects, imagination, problem solving, conflict resolution and collaboration. The coding playground engages children in six behaviors that we can also find in the regular playground: content creation, creativity, choices of conduct, communication, collaboration and community building. These six behaviors are further explored in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/theory\/ptd-framework\/\">Positive Technological Development (PTD) framework<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">To read more about this pedagogy, check out Prof Bers&#8217; Book: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Coding-as-a-Playground-Programming-and-Computational-Thinking-in-the-Early-Childhood-Classroom\/Bers\/p\/book\/9780367900502\">Coding as a Playground: Programming and Computational Thinking in the Early Childhood Classroom<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinabers.com\/coding-as-a-playground-book-guide\">book guide<\/a>. <br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When engaging children in a technology-rich learning experience, we welcome and promote play. Through play we can impact all areas of human development: cognitive, socio-emotional, language, moral, physical and even spiritual. 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