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Goolalang Platform Pendidikan Pengekodan by Hangzhou Maiyike Technology Co., Ltd.

Goolalang Platform Pendidikan Pengekodan by Hangzhou Maiyike Technology Co., Ltd. is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Besi in Reka Bentuk Pendidikan, Alat Bantu Mengajar dan Kandungan Latihan Competition Category.


BesiPendidikan· 2020

Goolalang Platform Pendidikan Pengekodan

by Hangzhou Maiyike Technology Co., Ltd.

Client: Goolalang

A' Design Award Besi Winner in Pendidikan Category

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The Design

About Goolalang Platform Pendidikan Pengekodan

Goolalang ialah platform pendidikan pengekodan untuk kanak-kanak kecil. Goolalang menggunakan bahasa pengaturcaraan seret-dan-lepas yang direka khas untuk peringkat tadika. Sesebuah program kelihatan seperti sebuah jalan yang dilihat dari atas, dengan tanda-tanda yang menunjukkan arah aliran, dan tapak kaki menandakan blok yang sedang dijalankan. Kanak-kanak membina adegan dengan mengimport sprite dan latar belakang daripada pustaka, kemudian melekatkan blok pengaturcaraan untuk menghasilkan cerita dan animasi dengan pelbagai sprite. Satu siri kursus turut disertakan, dan program boleh dikongsi antara peranti.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Besi

Goolalang Platform Pendidikan Pengekodan ialah pemenang A' Design Award Besi, pengiktirafan yang berprestij yang dianugerahkan kepada reka bentuk yang baik yang memenuhi keperluan profesional dan industri yang dijangka daripada ciptaan yang direka dengan baik. Pemenang Besi menunjukkan kemahiran yang besar, kepakaran yang tinggi, kefahaman pakar dan keupayaan kreatif penciptanya. Goolalang Platform Pendidikan Pengekodan diharapkan menjadi ciptaan yang sangat dihargai, dikagumi dan disayangi yang praktikal dan inovatif. Reka bentuk pemenang A' Design Award Besi ini menyepadukan amalan terbaik industri dan mempunyai ciri teknikal yang kompeten yang dikaitkan dengan kepakaran dan bakat. Goolalang Platform Pendidikan Pengekodan dihormati kerana ketelitiannya dan direka untuk memberikan peningkatan kualiti hidup yang membantu menjadikan dunia tempat yang lebih baik.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
Goolalang App is a programming platform for young children based on Goolalang, which is a new drag-and-drop programming language. The appearance of a Goolalang program is like a top-down road with signs representing the direction the program runs. When program is running, a footprint stops where the program executes. It is easy to write multi-sprite stories and animations due to the creative programming blocks. Goolalang App also prepares a series of courses to help children learn Goolalang.
Dimensions & Packaging
This application is based on iPad size and iOS 9 and above system.
Tags
Goolalang, Kindergarten, Programming education, Graphical Programming, STEM
Production Technology
Prototype: Pencil and paper, Axure RP.
UI Design: Adobe Illustrator.
Application Development: Xcode.
Design Challenge
One challenge is that while we realize the great importance of programming thinking in the kindergarten stage, Chinese society generally pays less attention to programming education in kindergarten. The other one is the difficulty to design the programming language, which should not only express programming concepts correctly, including sequences, loops, event and so on but also consider the understanding ability of kindergarten children.
Research
We first study the theory of children's pedagogy, and then adopt the real user test of the beta version. Users of beta test are 30 children around 5-7 years old and 10 adults including kindergarten teachers, full-time mothers, college students, etc. The testing result shows every children show great interest in learning Goolalang programming, and most children can program their own stories or animations freely, which proves Goolalang is suitable for children to learn programming.
Inspiration
With the increasing popularity of children's programming education, programming education in the kindergarten stage has increasingly attracted the attention of society. However, the existing programming and creation tools for kindergarten children are few, which limits the ability of children to create freely. The promotion of kindergarten programming education needs programming languages and tools suitable for kindergarten children's physical development and cognitive level.
Project Duration
The project began at Zhejiang University in China in 2017 and is currently being developed by Hangzhou Maiyike Technology Co.,Ltd.
Operation Flow
In Goolalang, young children can build scenes by importing favourite sprites and backgrounds from libraries, then write programs by grabbing a programming block, finding a suitable position and attaching it under or inside another programming block again and again. Goolalang App also prepares a series of courses, so young children can program while watching online videos. The video window can be dragged to any position and zoomed to any size. Also, programs can be shared through Airdrop.
Patents
goolalang. 2019 Hangzhou Maiyike Technology Co.,Ltd.
Team Members
Yinghan Jin
Yiqiang Chen
Min He
Chunying Luo

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