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Technical toys are among the early influences on the way young children behave, think and act. Their selection and the way they are used are significant from an educational point of view. Furthermore, studies show in particular repeatedly succeed in establishing an obvious connection between early play references and vocational and/or social orientation and STEM careers. At the same time, the range of toys on offer are reflecting the state of the art of the technological world while classic...Technical toys are among the early influences on the way young children behave, think and act. Their selection and the way they are used are significant from an educational point of view. Furthermore, studies show in particular repeatedly succeed in establishing an obvious connection between early play references and vocational and/or social orientation and STEM careers. At the same time, the range of toys on offer are reflecting the state of the art of the technological world while classically toys like construction kits are losing fre-quency of use and thus continuously changes the demand for fine motor and cognitive skills and other abilities from generation to generation. In response to this, various school and extracurricular activities are trying to im-plement the aforementioned research results in various STEM activities. In doing so, they want to contribute to improving basic technical education at an early age and use construction kits for this purpose that can seamlessly prepare the later use of educational robots. For the scope of this book this chapter gives an introduc-tion into the history, the use and the characteristics of different construction kits, reports long term teaching experiences and the educational current use of it in se-lected learning scenarios.» weiterlesen» einklappen

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Allgemeines, Wissenschaft