Development of prospective IT teachers’ ICT competence while studying robotics

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the problem of development of prospective IT teachers information and communication competence as the most important component of the teachers professional competence. The urgency of the development of the ICT-competence of the teacher in the field of robotics is determined by the introduction of this subject to the school, which requires appropriate training of teaching staff. The purpose of the paper is to present effective methods and techniques for developing ICT-competence in the process of studying educational robotics by students of pedagogical universities. Based on the analysis of regulatory documents that determine the requirements of the state, society and employers for teacher training, the authors determine the general structure of the teachers ICT competence, which is the basis for developing the content and methodology of teaching educational robotics at the university. The authors suggest methods of development of prospective teachers ICT competence main components in the process of studying robotics. They give examples of assignments and criteria for their evaluation for each component of ICT competence in educational robotics classes. Evaluation sets for each of the components help to define the level of students ICT competence and to make adjustments to the proposed methodology, if necessary. The presented materials can be used in pedagogical activity of pedagogical university teachers in the fields of IT and ICT, Physics and IT, IT and Mathematics.

Advancing educational robotics: competence development for pre-service computer science teachers

“…The formation of components of digital competence in the process of learning robotics is also mentioned in [25]. Buzhinskaya and Grebneva [3] describe the development of ICT competence of pre-service computer science teachers in the process of teaching robotics. Thus, the individual components of digital competence will be part of the competences in educational robotics.…”

“…Buzhinskaya and Grebneva [3] note that computer science is a leading discipline for teaching educational robotics. It should be taught by computer science teachers, respectively, as part of the school computer science course.…”

Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Advances in Educational Technology - Volume 2: AET

“…Buzhinskaya and Grebneva (Buzhinskaya and Grebneva, 2018) note that computer science is a leading discipline for teaching educational robotics. It should be taught by computer science teachers, respectively, as part of the school computer science course.…”