Gwangyang Hope Library's 'Coding with Stories' Program Gains Popularity

Experience Vivid Fairy Tale Stories Through Making and Coding

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Heo Seon-sik] Jeonnam Gwangyang Hope Library announced that the ‘2022 Storytelling Coding’ program, selected through a public contest by the National Library for Children and Young Adults, is receiving high enthusiasm from children.

The program is designed for 4th-grade elementary school students in Gwangyang City and takes place at the Hope Library Learning Classroom (3rd floor) every Saturday from July 2 to 23, totaling four sessions.

‘Storytelling Coding’ is a new reading education program that combines reading with coding, aimed at increasing children’s interest in reading, developing their thinking skills, and helping improve problem-solving abilities.

The classes involve reading four picture books?“Can I Show You?”, “Are You a Monster?”, “Pollutants Have Burst!”, and “Greta Thunberg Shouts!”?together with a librarian, then using various craft materials to create objects from the books, and finally programming the story content directly using coding kits.

For this, the first and second sessions focus on basic stages involving making activities and practicing coding programs using educational boards, while the third and fourth sessions are advanced stages where students implement scenarios they created themselves through coding programs.

By scripting various ideas such as alternative endings or problem-solving methods of the protagonists and turning them into coding programs, students are expected to concretize their imagination, learn computational thinking, and thereby enhance creativity and cognitive development.

Kim Hyun-sook, team leader of Hope Library, said, “This program will be a great opportunity for local children to grow into convergent talents needed in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution,” adding, “We plan to introduce experiential reading services incorporating new technologies such as AI, VR, and AR to provide children with new reading enjoyment.”

Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Heo Seon-sik hss79@asiae.co.kr

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