Greeny: NAO As Assistive Teaching Tool For Recycling in Early Childhood Education

Greeny is proposed as an assistive teaching tool for early childhood education to improve on the learning experience of the students, as well as facilitating the teaching and learning process for young children (from the age of 3 to 5 years old, or pre-school students) on the importance of saving the Mother Nature through recycling items. The undertaking of this approach is motivated by the interest of improving the teaching and learning experience in early childhood education, as well as improving the awareness of recycling and sustaining the environment. The approach will utilize the commercially available robot, which is NAO. Greeny will demonstrate to the young children on sorting recycle items into the right container and explaining the significance of recycling. Surveys are conducted as preliminary investigation to assess the recycling awareness in the public. An interactive module for the Greeny is to be developed and implemented to assist the teacher in teaching and learning process. Iterative development model is being used as the methodology for development. At the end of the development, testing will be done onto the prototype before being implemented for the teaching and learning. After completion of prototype testing, testing on young children will be done by evaluating the success and failure of sorting the recycle items into the right bin to assess on the grasp of understanding on the input gain from the teaching and learning with intervention of robot as assistive teaching tool.