Crab Robot: A Comparative Study Regarding the Use of Robotics in STEM Education

Santos, Icleia; Grebogy, Elaine Cristina; Medeiros, Luciano Frontino de

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“…Other studies have reported inconclusive results on the role of robotics in the development of mathematical learning; thus, it is necessary to conduct more research in the area to evaluate the effects of robotics on mathematical learning gains [ 31 ]. These results represent an initial exploration of the impact of robotics on STEM learning in multigrade contexts.…”

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Robotics Education in STEM Units: Breaking Down Barriers in Rural Multigrade Schools

Inostroza

Medina-Paredes

Aguilera

et al. 2022

Sensors

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We report a novel proposal for reducing the digital divide in rural multigrade schools, incorporating knowledge of robotics with a STEM approach to simultaneously promote curricular learning in mathematics and science in several school grades. We used an exploratory qualitative methodology to implement the proposal with 12 multigrade rural students. We explored the contribution of the approaches to the promotion of curricular learning in mathematics and science and the perceptions of using robotics to learn mathematics and science. As data collection techniques, we conducted focus groups and semi-structured interviews with the participants and analyzed their responses thematically. We concluded that the proposal could contribute to meeting the challenges of multigrade teaching. Our findings suggest that the proposal would simultaneously promote the development of curricular learning in mathematics and science in several school grades, offering an alternative for addressing various topics with different degrees of depth.

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Robotics Education in STEM Units: Breaking Down Barriers in Rural Multigrade Schools

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Medina-Paredes

Aguilera

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Sensors

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“…They were aimed at the area of biology and the animal world. The first attempts at social robotics tried to integrate a robot in a species' natural context and create communication between them in this context in order to obtain more information about the said species [7], [14], [25]. Then, from the 90s to about 2010, the first robot designs aimed at interacting with humans began to appear.…”

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“…The technology currently available for researchers far exceeds what the pioneers of robotics had. In the last decade, we are experiencing the rise of educational robotics [25]. More and more brands are producing commercial robots aimed at education.…”

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Robotics and Education: A Systematic Review

Perez¹,

Huegun-Burgos²,

Rekalde-Rodríguez³

2022

TEM Journal

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Digital society is here, and it came to stay. One of our daily lives where information and communication technologies have the most significant impact is education. This systematic review analyzes the presence that technology, robotics specifically, has had on our educational system in recent years. Some keywords have been chosen, and screening has been carried out in the three most extensive databases about didactic and education: Education Resources Information Center, Scopus, and Web of Science chosen for being the most relevant in education sciences. Although among the most remarkable results, it was found that robotics is used as an individual skill developing tool. Its benefits as a teamwork promoting tool are not yet widely applied.

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“…A broad strand of research focuses on the potential of Educational Robotics (ER) to improve students' scientific conceptual understanding and technological literacy (e.g., Nugent et al, 2010;Eguchi and Uribe, 2017;Santos et al, 2019). Specifically, Khanlari (2019) argues that ER provides an alternative teaching method to traditional lecture-style classes to improve understanding of mathematical and science concepts by facilitating the processes of investigation, planning, recording, analysis, and interpretation.…”

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Towards 2030. Enhancing 21st century skills through educational robotics

Gratani

Giannandrea

2022

Front. Educ.

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Recent technological advances require new learning and teaching methods and a reform of traditional school curricula to promote STEM and 21st-century skills. Educational robotics is considered a powerful tool, not only to learn programing, but also to enhance soft and transversal skills, such as problem-solving, metacognition, divergent thinking, creativity, and collaboration. This contribution presents a one-year research project aimed at integrating maker education and educational robotics into the primary and lower secondary school curriculum. The project is developed through a multidisciplinary and longitudinal approach and adopts the Design-Based Implementation Research methodology. It involved 50 fourth and fifth grade Italian students until the following school year. As an integrating background theme, we chose the 17 Goals outlined by the UN in the 2030 Agenda. Each selected goal was addressed by solving challenges in groups. Educational robotics became a tool for learning many concepts, such as renewable energies, human body systems or states of matter, but especially for working on creativity and ability to design, build, collaborate, and revise. We investigated students’ attitude toward STEM and 21st-century skills and their perceived school self-efficacy administrating two questionnaires pre and post the two parts of the project. This paper discusses findings on students’ attitude toward 21st-century skills. In the post analyzes of both Part 1 and 2, this field showed the highest scores compared to STEM fields. The pre-post data show an improvement in organizational, interpersonal, and leadership skills from Part 1, but also a gradual increase in personal and management skills.

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Crab Robot: A Comparative Study Regarding the Use of Robotics in STEM Education

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

Robotics Education in STEM Units: Breaking Down Barriers in Rural Multigrade Schools

Robotics Education in STEM Units: Breaking Down Barriers in Rural Multigrade Schools

Robotics and Education: A Systematic Review

Towards 2030. Enhancing 21st century skills through educational robotics

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