Teaching Her, Him ... or Hir? Challenges for a Cross-Cultural Study

摘要

This paper discusses some cultural considerations that we stand before in developing and exploiting an agent based educational software for use by Swedish and American students, age 11-14. The reported cultural challenges arise in software development, study designs, and decisions on actual pedagogical use in the two cultural settings. The software in the study is an educational game for basic mathematics [1] using Teachable Agents (TAs), an educational technology based on learning by teaching.