Physical Learning Activities with a Teaching Assistant Robot in Elementary School Music Class

Very recently, together with ICT (Information Communication and Technology) as teaching aids, the blended-learning combined with off-line education and e-learning has been administered. In the future, however, r-learning based on robots as teaching assistants will be employed to help students enhance their educational motivation and effects. Also, the teachers who have high- qualified capacity of ICT have also assumed robots as their assistants in the various fields such as music and language. Thus, many studies have investigated whether there are significant differences between the use of robots and other educational approaches in the field of education. However, there are few previous studies about whether robots would help music lessons or not in the field of music education. Therefore, the present study investigated whether Tiro, a teaching assistant robot, could help the Korean elementary school 4th-grade students learn six-eight time conduct in the music class. For treatments, teaching scenario for Tiro´s experimental lessons was designed. It consists of learning materials and class management services. Also, after the contents for flash-based multimedia robot were designed and developed, the final scenario for teaching assistant robot was created by adding robot action scripts in order to match the contents with robot action template. The contents of the assistant robot for music conduct lesson were downloaded by the wireless, and they were employed for this study. Data collected from Tiro´s experimental music lesson and the teacher´s assessment and feedback were analyzed and reported.