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A First Approach to Co-design with Pre-service Teachers a Multimodal Pedagogic Conversational Agent to Teach Programming in Primary Education

Version 1 : Received: 24 November 2023 / Approved: 27 November 2023 / Online: 27 November 2023 (11:23:23 CET)

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Pérez-Marín, D.; Hijón-Neira, R.; Pizarro, C. A First Approach to Co-Design a Multimodal Pedagogic Conversational Agent with Pre-Service Teachers to Teach Programming in Primary Education. Computers 2024, 13, 65, doi:10.3390/computers13030065. Pérez-Marín, D.; Hijón-Neira, R.; Pizarro, C. A First Approach to Co-Design a Multimodal Pedagogic Conversational Agent with Pre-Service Teachers to Teach Programming in Primary Education. Computers 2024, 13, 65, doi:10.3390/computers13030065.

Abstract

Pedagogic Conversational Agents (PCAs) are interactive systems that engage the student in a dialogue to teach some domain. They can have the role of teacher, student, or companion, and adopt several shapes. In our previous work, a significant increase of students’ performance when learning programming was found when using PCAs in the teacher role. However, it is not common to find PCAs used in the classrooms. In this paper, it is explored whether teachers would accept PCAs to teach programming better if co-designed with them. An experiment with 35 pre-service Primary Education teachers was carried out during the 2021/2022 academic year to co-design a robotic PCA to teach programming. The experience validates the idea that involving the teachers in the design of the PCA facilitates that they integrate this technology in their classrooms. 97% of the pre-service teachers answered in a survey that they believed that the robot PCA could help children to learn programming and 80% answered that they would like to use them in their classrooms.

Keywords

Basic education; Computer programming; Higher education; Scientific information; Online systems

Subject

Social Sciences, Education

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