Creating a protocol for collaborative mobile applications for kids between 4 and 6 years old

One of the basic requirements in education is to prepare students for participation in an information society in which knowledge will be the most important resource for development. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning is one of the most promising approaches to enhance the learning process with...

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Authors: Ramírez Benavides, Kryscia Daviana, García, Franklin, Guerrero Blanco, Luis Alberto
Format: article
Publication Date:2015
Country:Costa Rica
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repository:Kérwá
OAI Identifier:oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/75862
Online Access:https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2808628
https://hdl.handle.net/10669/75862
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Protocol architecture
Early childhood education
Collaborative work
Mobile devices
Programming learning
Robotics
Educación
372.358 Tecnología
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Summary:One of the basic requirements in education is to prepare students for participation in an information society in which knowledge will be the most important resource for development. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning is one of the most promising approaches to enhance the learning process with the help of information and communication technology. At the same time, advances in technology and mobile devices in the last decade have increased the number of educational institutions adopting mobile tools in the learning process. This paper describes the design and implementation of a protocol for a collaborative mobile application. TITIBOTS Colab is a programming environment for kids between 4 and 6 years old. During the implementation of TITIBOTS Colab, while creating a working version of the protocol, our team found that all messages defined in the design worked properly in order to provide the communication rules for the client and server applications.