Mor Friebroon Yesharim

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Mor Friebroon Yesharim is an educational researcher specializing in computer science education and robotics-based learning for young children. Their work focuses on the critical challenge of introducing complex computational concepts to elementary school students, an area that has gained significant momentum as coding and digital literacy become foundational skills in modern education. Yesharim's most notable contribution is their 2018 study, "Teaching Computer Science Concepts Through Robotics to Elementary School Children," which has garnered 16 citations and investigates how robotics can serve as a tangible, engaging medium for reifying abstract CS concepts for young learners. Building on earlier groundwork laid in their 2017 paper, which documented a hands-on curriculum delivered to second-grade students using the Thymio robot and VPL programming environment, Yesharim has helped establish a concrete pedagogical framework for this emerging field. Notably, their development of a taxonomy to characterize student learning of CS concepts represents a meaningful methodological contribution to the field. Though still an emerging voice in CS education research, Yesharim's work addresses a genuine and pressing gap — making computational thinking accessible and meaningful to children as young as seven — and provides practical, classroom-tested insights for educators and curriculum designers alike.