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Robotics in Primary Education: A Lexical Analysis of Teachers’ Resources Across Robots

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Towards a Collaborative Society Through Creative Learning (WCCE 2022)

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Through a lexical analysis, this study examines the relationship between the terms used in various educational resources about robots. These resources were authored by novice or expert teachers in primary schools. Our hypothesis is that the computer science concepts discussed in an activity are different depending on the type of robot. The first results confirm dependence between the type of robot and the lexicon used in the resources. The corpus is explored according to three thematic sets of terms: Computer Science (CS), Pedagogy and Move with special attention for CS terms to compare the vocabulary used for sequential and event-driven programming robots.

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  1. University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon, France

    Christophe Reffay

  2. University of Teacher Education, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Gabriel Parriaux

  3. University of Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

    Béatrice Drot-Delange

  4. CY Cergy Paris University, Paris, France

    Mehdi Khaneboubi

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  1. School of Education, La Trobe University, Deepdene, VIC, Australia

    Therese Keane

  2. Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK

    Cathy Lewin

  3. University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

    Torsten Brinda

  4. Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche, Consiglio Nazioanale delle Ricerche, Genoa, Genova, Italy

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Reffay, C., Parriaux, G., Drot-Delange, B., Khaneboubi, M. (2023). Robotics in Primary Education: A Lexical Analysis of Teachers’ Resources Across Robots. In: Keane, T., Lewin, C., Brinda, T., Bottino, R. (eds) Towards a Collaborative Society Through Creative Learning. WCCE 2022. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 685. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43393-1_20

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