Building Young Engineers: TASEM for Third Graders in Woodcreek Magnet Elementary School

Applying Robotics in School Education: a Systematic Review

“…they are usually used in the after-school or summer camp program. Exceptions were introduced by five articles, one of which noted that teachers integrated their work into conventional teaching (Varney et al, 2012;), three articles described the use of robots by teachers in one of their classes (Mills et al, 2013;McDonald et al, 2012;Fridin, 2014), while the remaining article evaluated different methods of implementing of the program into the educational curriculum of 5 schools (Nicholas et al, 2012).…”

“…McDonald et al, 2012;McLurkin et al, 2013 While constructing robotics models the children's mathematics and science skills have improved, pupils have acquired a deeper understanding of mathematical and science concepts. Varney et al, 2012;Meyers et al, 2012 Robotics lessons have the influence on students' future career. Howard et al, 2012 Early age children have the emotional satisfaction while playing with robot humanoids.…”

“…Varney et al, 2012 Teachers from 4 schools noted a great value of inclusion of all students, only one school for children from disfunctional families with deep-seated learning and behavioral difficulties could not be included in the activities, had the lack of enthusiasm.…”

“…Howard et al, 2012 "The storytelling robot successfully promoted children's emotional involvement in the learning process" Fridin, 2014 The TASEM program is an effective tool for developing pupils' character, as this encourages and teaches them to use team skills in the development of own robots. Pupils, taught according to this program, understood the principle of team work better and engaged in STEM discussions taking a wiser position (Varney et al, 2012). All pupils of higher grades were more interested in the practical activity of model development during the course rather than use of ready-made models (Cuperman et al, 2013).…”

“…one-week summer program was replaced with the primary school program for the third grade. This expanded the scope of the program and engaged students that were not yet interested in STEM subjects (Varney et al, 2012). Hung I-Chun noted in his study that educational robots may enhance pupil's motivation to learn, but this learning motivation would be difficult to maintain and be subject to gradual reduction, if new technologies were not introduced into the teaching strategy (Hung et al, 2013).…”