Collective Intelligence on a Robotic Project, a Pedagogical Experience in a Pre-school Garden at Nariño (Colombia)

Abstract

This paper presents a pedagogical experience to initiate the boys and girls in the technology world in childhood education. The pedagogical experience is based on participatory research, in which, preschool teachers and researchers proposed a didactic method to build robots in a kindergarten. Thus, boys and girls are induced to technology, investigation and research thinking. Furthermore, the meaningful learning was reached through this ludic pedagogical project related to science and technology, where they produced knowledge and technological devices. We have highlights about the relation between technology and early childhood education, in which, one education challenge is to design didactic methods where expert and non-expert knowledge lead to a collective intelligence in class; while teachers play many roles, and preserved the ethic citizens values. We implemented a ludic pedagogical project for collective production of technology (robots). It took place in an institution of early preschool education, at Jardin Infantil Personitas del Manana in Pasto Narino, Colombia. Index Terms Collective intelligence, pedagogical experience and robotic project in early childhood education