Ready for Robotics: Bringing Together the T and E of STEM in Early Childhood Teacher Education.

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Empowering technology and engineering for STEM education through programming robots: a systematic literature review (2018, background): “In order to provide this support, teachers of young children should have knowledge and experience regarding robotics, engineering, programming, and pedagogies for teaching these in early childhood settings (Bers et al., 2013).”
Coding as a playground: Promoting positive learning experiences in childhood classrooms (2019, methodology): “Prior research has shown that young children aged 4–7 years old can create and program basic robotics projects (Cejka, Rogers, & Portsmore, 2006; Wyeth, 2008; Sullivan & Bers, 2013).”
Robotics in the early childhood classroom: learning outcomes from an 8-week robotics curriculum in pre-kindergarten through second grade (2015, methodology): “In order to make technology and engineering instruction most useful for early childhood classrooms, there is a need for new technologies with design affordances and interfaces speciﬁcally developed for young learners (Bers et al. 2013).”