Levels of Control in Primary Robotics

Levels of Control in Primary Robotics

연구 분야: Artificial Intelligence

학회: IFIP World Conference on Computers in Education

For several years, we have been developing educational content for informatics for lower primary education (years ranging from one to four and age ranging from six to ten). The resulting intervention is built of three complementary strands, with robotics as the most recently completed one. Here, pupils work with Blue-Bot programmable robots, equipped with blue wireless external control panels. Each team pairs the robot with the panel and controls it using small plastic command tiles. We also use the introduction of new content as a set of research instruments and aim to deepen our understanding of how pupils construct and extend their comprehension of basic computing concepts and related operations. We focus on determining which of these concepts are considered as more challenging to pupils. The current project is established on our previous research on different levels of control in programming and related program representations. Here, we focused on exploring whether, even when programming a physical robot using an external control panel, the transition from direct control to programming is a challenging cognitive transformation for young learners.