LudoScience

"Distance" Hypothesis applied to robot-pedagogy for children in kindergarten Julian Alvarez, Katell Bellegarde, Julie Boyaval, Vincent Hurez, Jean-Jacques Flahaut et Thierry Lafouge - 2021

Informations

Support : Publications
Author(s) : Julian Alvarez, Katell Bellegarde, Julie Boyaval, Vincent Hurez, Jean-Jacques Flahaut et Thierry Lafouge
Editor : EIAH 2021 / APIMU - Atelier "Apprentissage de la pensée informatique de la maternelle à l'Université : retours d'expériences et passage à l'échelle", Fribourg, Suisse
Date : 2021
Lang : Lang


Description

The Blue Bot project involved 230 five-year-old pupils of kindergarten in the Nord-Pas de Calais Region (France). The goal was to introduce them to coding, decoding and programming design. A ludopedagogy session was proposed with three main modalities: Body, Robot and Tablet. The statistical results confirmed the reliability of the scientific experiment and highlighted that the two modality combining Robot and Tablet recorded the highest performance scores in a pre- and posttest type evaluation method. The objective of this communication is to expose the "Distance" hypothesis as an attempt to explain this phenomenon. 

Keywords : Robot, Pedagogy, Tablet PC, Comparative Study, kindergarten, programming design, Coding, Decoding