Program with ScratchJr in Preschool: Kids Media Lab Project in Portugal

Abstract

Kids Media Lab - Technology and Programming Learning in Preschool Age is a post-doctoral research project in development at the University of Minho (Portugal). Participants who are part of the project belong to five districts of Portugal (Aveiro, Braga, Coimbra, Porto and Viseu) and currently cover 23 kindergartens and a total of around 500 children. With this presentation we will introduce the Kids Media Lab project, which is inspired by the initiation into programming learning and aims to train kindergarten teachers and develop activities with the children, using ScratchJr. In Portugal, this is a pioneering project in Childhood Education contexts and at this conference we expect to show all the work done in training education professionals on how ScratchJr can be integrated into the preschool.