The dissertation is concerned with the development of algorithmic and computational thinking using psychomotor activities on a giant chessboard (PSG).
The PSG methodology has been used for several years at San Michele kindergarten in Fabriano ,starting with Mauro Gaspari, a chess player and computer scientist.
The aim of the workshop is not teaching children how to play chess, but to let them approach the world of chess with the same curiosity they have when listening to a fairy tale, trying to enter it gradually, until they become part of it
The psychomotor practice is a fundamental element for a healthy development of the child, which is favoured by sense-motor play in which “the pleasure of acting enhances the pleasure of thinking”(B. Aucouturier). Furthermore, from last studies on neurosciences, it has been confirmed how psychomotor activity favours learning, speech development and abstract thinking, thus enhancing creativity and social abilities in children.
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