title: Using robotics construction kits as metacognitive tools: a research in an Italian primary school.
abstract: The present paper is aimed at analyzing the process of building and programming robots as a metacognitive tool. Quantitative data and qualitative observations from a research performed in a sample of children attending an Italian primary school are described in this work. Results showed that robotics activities may be intended as a new metacognitive environment that allows children to monitor themselves and control their learning actions in an autonomous and self-centered way.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Neuroscienze Cliniche, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Grotte, Italy. filippolapaglia@gmail.com
authors.forename: Filippo
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: La Paglia
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Caci
authors.forename: Daniele
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: La Barbera
authors.forename: Maurizio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cardaci
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D012106:Research; D012371:Robotics / Q000379:methods*; D012574:Schools