COMPUTING SCIENCE AND LEARNING EXPERIENCES FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD CHILDREN

Abstract

Humans are naturally able to learn their own languages for everyday communication.  In today’s era where technology have changes rapidly; however, these languages may not be enough for 21^st century life. Digital language learning is therefore very important to the new generation. Thailand has integrated computing science into the early childhood education curriculum and the basic education curriculum to provide the foundation and develop Thai children’s abilities for critical thinking, systematically problem solving. In addition, they can synthesize and create a set of instructions for working with computer technology. Early childhood children must have the foundation of science, mathematics and languages that can be used to further their learning in computing science focusing on 2 parts. The first part is computation thinking that has 4 key concepts: (1) decomposition, (2) pattern recognition, (3) abstraction, and (4) algorithms. The second part is programming with unplugged coding. Teachers provide learning experiences for early childhood children to do activities on their own through daily routines, easy cooking, listening to music, patterns movement or playing board games to give them the right and suitable experiences for developing and continuing in digital learning in a high level.