Professional Testimony: A Programmable Object for Learning Computer Science at Elementary School
Olivier Grugier, Sandra Nogry · 2022
As of 2016, teaching computer science has been included in elementary education teaching syllabuses. This chapter focuses on pupil activity in class during ordinary computer science teaching–learning practices. It presents some case studies in classes from different cycles. The educational robot sequences put forward were designed and implemented by teachers, master trainers who had no specific training in technology or computer sciences. In these sequences, pupils have to learn to program BeeBots. For these sequences, the pedagogical approaches allowed space for investigation through handling and experimentation carried out by the pupils. In order to overcome the problems encountered by the pupils in gaining an understanding of the robot, the teachers provided guidance that took two forms: developing pedagogical artifacts and establishing procedures. The interface, the programming language and the movement mode of the robot probably had roles in the learning process.