Goolalang Plataforma de Ensino de Programação by Hangzhou Maiyike Technology Co., Ltd.

Goolalang Plataforma de Ensino de Programação by Hangzhou Maiyike Technology Co., Ltd. is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award de Ferro in Design de Educação, Auxiliares de Ensino e Conteúdo de Formação Competition Category.

FerroEducação· 2020

Goolalang Plataforma de Ensino de Programação

by Hangzhou Maiyike Technology Co., Ltd.

Client: Goolalang

A' Design Award de Ferro Winner in Educação Category

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The Design

About Goolalang Plataforma de Ensino de Programação

Goolalang é uma plataforma de ensino de programação para crianças pequenas. O Goolalang utiliza uma linguagem de programação do tipo arrastar e soltar, criada especialmente para a fase da educação infantil. Um programa se parece com uma estrada vista de cima, com placas que indicam a direção do fluxo, e uma pegada assinala o bloco que está sendo executado. As crianças montam cenas importando personagens (sprites) e planos de fundo de bibliotecas e, em seguida, encaixam blocos de programação para criar histórias e animações com vários personagens. Uma série de cursos está incluída, e os programas podem ser compartilhados entre dispositivos.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Ferro

Goolalang Plataforma de Ensino de Programação conquistou o A' Design Award de Ferro, um reconhecimento prestigiado atribuído a bons designs que cumprem os requisitos profissionais e industriais esperados de criações bem concebidas. Os vencedores do Ferro demonstram grande habilidade, elevada especialização, compreensão especializada e capacidade criativa dos seus criadores. Espera-se que Goolalang Plataforma de Ensino de Programação seja uma criação muito considerada, admirada e estimada, prática e inovadora. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Ferro integra as melhores práticas do setor e tem características técnicas competentes associadas a conhecimento especializado e talento. Pela sua minúcia, Goolalang Plataforma de Ensino de Programação merece respeito e destina-se a proporcionar melhorias na qualidade de vida que ajudam a tornar o mundo num lugar melhor.

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