Interactive environments for training children's curiosity through the practice of metacognitive skills: a pilot study

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08397v1
• Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 10:21:32 GMT
• Title: Interactive environments for training children's curiosity through the practice of metacognitive skills: a pilot study
• Authors: Rania Abdelghani, Edith Law, Chlo\'e Desvaux, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer and H\'el\`ene Sauz\'eon
• Abstract summary: We propose an 8-session workshop that aims to enhance children's curiosity through training a set of specific metacognitive skills. Our first results show a positive impact on children's metacognitive efficiency and their ability to express their curiosity through question-asking behaviors.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Curiosity-driven learning has shown significant positive effects on students' learning experiences and outcomes. But despite this importance, reports show that children lack this skill, especially in formal educational settings. To address this challenge, we propose an 8-session workshop that aims to enhance children's curiosity through training a set of specific metacognitive skills we hypothesize are involved in its process. Our workshop contains animated videos presenting declarative knowledge about curiosity and the said metacognitive skills as well as practice sessions to apply these skills during a reading-comprehension task, using a web platform designed for this study (e.g. expressing uncertainty, formulating questions, etc). We conduct a pilot study with 15 primary school students, aged between 8 and 10. Our first results show a positive impact on children's metacognitive efficiency and their ability to express their curiosity through question-asking behaviors.

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