Our friends at Latitude Research and Project Synthesis just partnered with the LEGO Learning Institute (let’s be friends too!) to produce a great report on three of our favorite topics: kids, storytelling, and ROBOTS!
With this study, the team asked a group of elementary school students to tell a story about what life would be like with their own robot. The research team then coded the stories to see what commonalities existed across stories and learn more about how robots might help to encourage play, learning, and creativity. Without spoiling too much of the report, we were particularly interested to hear that (unlike many adults), the kids tended to talk about their robots as friends and mentors rather than tools – a sibling or cousin with just a bit more knowledge/experience (but, as Vygotsky would note, still well within the ZPD).
It’s a great read for anyone interested in qualitative research, education, play, sentient beings… you know all the cool things in life. Here’s the Full Report.
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