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A learning program for young children that uses pictures books and screen-free robotics to teach coding.
Highlights
Highlights
The SIRP curriculum uses a picture book pedagogy to integrate storytelling and robotics coding into children's learning experiences.
The SIRP curriculum adopts a technology-enhanced embodied learning approach to support children's integrated STEAM learning.
The SIRP curriculum enables young children's learning of computational thinking and 21st century skills.
Research & Development
Research & Development
This curriculum emerged from Dr. Weipeng Yang's research at the Education University of Hong Kong.
It has been implemented in Hong Kong kindergartens and published in top international journals.
Evidence & Impact
Evidence & Impact
Yang, W., Luo, H., & Su, J. (2022). Towards inclusiveness and sustainability of robot programming in early childhood: Child engagement, learning outcomes and teacher perception. British Journal of Educational Technology, 53(6), 1486-1510. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13266
Yang, W., Ng, D. T. K., & Su, J. (2023). The impact of story-inspired programming on preschool children's computational thinking: A multi-group experiment. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 47, 101218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2022.101218
Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
Join us on an exciting journey to build skills for the future with robots! Our curriculum teaches computational thinking and 21st-century skills through engineering design, as children create, test, and share their own robot creations. Build games, products, and valuable communication and collaboration skills along the way!
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