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What Is a Friend?

TARGET:

03-04 years

INTENSITY:

15 min

LEARNING GOAL

Learning to differentiate a human being from an "intelligent" machine

PEDAGOGICAL INTENTION

Identify social / relational differences

Target SKILLS

MATERIALS

DETAILED PROCEDURE

PROGRESS INDICATORS

Photos of classmates

Robot image

Show photos of classmates.

Step 1

Ask: "Who can you talk, laugh, and share with?"

Step 2

Invite the children to describe what they do with friends.

Step 3

Invite the children to show a robot image and ask: "Can it share a secret or a snack?"

Step 4

Explicit conclusion: "A friend is a living person you share with."

Step 5

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Step 10

The child says that a friend shares, feels, and chooses — something a robot cannot do.

Co-Intelligence Human-Machine

Simple Reasoning

Research Foundations

Bowlby, J. (1969); Vygotsky, L. S. (1978)

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