@inproceedings{0d7fc879efac47989d20d185f4d0cf55,
title = "Preschoolers' Embodied and Shared Self-Regulation Through Computational Thinking",
abstract = "Despite shared characteristics and developmental significance of self-regulation (SR) and computational thinking (CT) in young children, existing research mainly focuses on the positive correlation between these two while neglecting the underlying processes of influence. To fill this gap, we examine how preschoolers are engaged in embodied and socially-shared SR through CT with a tangible programming toy in teacher-guided small groups. Through interaction analysis, we show how a teacher and preschoolers leverage embodied knowledge together and with a tangible programming toy to successfully engage in focused attention and inhibitory control, two key components of SR. Our findings challenge and expand the existent conceptualization of children's SR as individual and confined to the mind, and illustrate how embodied and collaborative CT activities in early childhood are generative occasions for SR.",
author = "Wang, \{X. Christine\} and Flood, \{Virginia J.\} and Xing, \{Grace Yaxin\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} ISLS.; 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2023 ; Conference date: 10-06-2023 Through 15-06-2023",
year = "2023",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS",
publisher = "International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)",
pages = "1470--1473",
editor = "Paulo Blikstein and \{Van Aalst\}, Jan and Rita Kizito and Karen Brennan",
booktitle = "ISLS Annual Meeting 2023",
address = "United States",
}