Educational Robotics as a boundary object: Towards a research agenda

Malinverni, Laura; Valero, Cristina Heierle; Schaper, Marie-Monique; Cruz, Isabel Garcia de la

doi:10.1016/j.ijcci.2021.100305

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“…In the same direction, the authors in [11] have built a robotics platform only for 25 USD (2018) to implement a line-follower application where several skills related to sensors, Bluetooth communication and microcontrollers' programming have been improved in a STEM framework. More successful STEM implementations using robotics platforms can be found in [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]. Although these studies are distributed over different periods and were designed using different tools and resources, they all led to results promoting the capability of thinking as well as improving 21 st century skills.…”

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confidence: 99%

Improved Dijkstra Algorithm for Mobile Robot Path Planning and Obstacle Avoidance

Alshammrei¹,

Boubaker²,

Kolsi³

2022

Computers, Materials &Amp; Continua

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Optimal path planning avoiding obstacles is among the most attractive applications of mobile robots (MRs) in both research and education. In this paper, an optimal collision-free algorithm is designed and implemented practically based on an improved Dijkstra algorithm. To achieve this research objectives, first, the MR obstacle-free environment is modeled as a diagraph including nodes, edges and weights. Second, Dijkstra algorithm is used offline to generate the shortest path driving the MR from a starting point to a target point. During its movement, the robot should follow the previously obtained path and stop at each node to test if there is an obstacle between the current node and the immediately following node. For this aim, the MR was equipped with an ultrasonic sensor used as obstacle detector. If an obstacle is found, the MR updates its diagraph by excluding the corresponding node. Then, Dijkstra algorithm runs on the modified diagraph. This procedure is repeated until reaching the target point. To verify the efficiency of the proposed approach, a simulation was carried out on a hand-made MR and an environment including 9 nodes, 19 edges and 2 obstacles. The obtained optimal path avoiding obstacles has been transferred into motion control and implemented practically using line tracking sensors. This study has shown that the improved Dijkstra algorithm can efficiently solve optimal path planning in environments including obstacles and that STEAM-based MRs are efficient cost-effective tools to practically implement the designed algorithm.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Improved Dijkstra Algorithm for Mobile Robot Path Planning and Obstacle Avoidance

Alshammrei¹,

Boubaker²,

Kolsi³

2022

Computers, Materials &Amp; Continua

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“…For example, Papert (1972Papert ( , 1980 implemented Logo programming and the concept of computation in education in the 1970s. Since then, educational robotics has become an integral part of education, especially with the growing focus on STEM disciplines and interdisciplinary integration with other subject areas (Malinverni et al, 2021;Ospennikova et al, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Implementation of learning by design in a synchronized online environment to teach educational robotics to inservice teachers

Sung

Yoon

2022

Education Tech Research Dev

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Teaching educational robotics is of growing interest in K-12 settings. Yet, immense efforts are needed to move the field forward by framing the teaching of robotics with pedagogically sound theories as well as appropriate instructional design models and strategies. To meet this need, the authors designed and implemented an online educational robotics course for inservice teachers who had little or no prior experience in teaching robotics, by applying instructional design factors as well as teaching and facilitation strategies derived from the learning by design (LBD) framework. Action research employing mixed methods was carried out to examine the effects of instructional design factors implemented in the online educational robotics course. An online survey indicated that the participating teachers increased their self-efficacy in robotics, use of problem-solving and collaboration strategies, and confidence in robotics knowledge and teaching. In addition, by the end of the course, the participating teachers demonstrated sufficient robotics content knowledge. As revealed in their reflective essays, they also developed learning strategies, such as casebased reasoning, sketches, trial and error, and evaluating capacity while completing the robotics open-ended project. Further, they realized the constraints of learning educational robotics online and the benefits of collaboration. This study sheds light on the design components of a robotics course grounded in LBD that are effective for preparing teachers in an online environment to implement robotics in their classrooms.

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“…Italian scholars (Malinverni et al, 2021), conducted experimental research of including robotics in the elementary school program. Outcomes of the experiment were undoubtedly positive: increased motivation and learning rate.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Psychologists and teachers find several positive factors in robotics classes; these factors allow people to develop simultaneously with the technological processes in the society, to be ready for any changes in the social and technological spheres of the society, to improve the methods and forms of working with students, and to expand the scope of activities of a teacher and a student (Filippov et al, 2017b;Malinverni et al, 2021;Scaradozzi et al, 2015).…”

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Training Of Student-Teachers To Organize Clubs Of Engineering Creativity

Kazeeva¹

2022

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Engineering creativity has always attracted people. New areas of focus have appeared in this field thus making the theoretical foundations more sophisticated and changing the age range of learners who can study engineering creativity. Changes in the structure and content of the process require trained specialists who can apply new methods in teaching creative approaches to engineering tasks. The present research work is focused on the necessity of training the specialists prepared to work in different areas of children's engineering creativity and organizing a system of training such specialists. The results of a sociological survey of students and an analysis of the circle activities of the "School of Programming" based on the Centre for Organization of Pre-University Education at the Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University are presented. The article analyses the need and possibility of training the students, future teachers, to organize the clubs of engineering creativity. A special feature of the study is a presentation of the program of training non-physics and non-math majors to be organizers of robotics clubs.

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Educational Robotics as a boundary object: Towards a research agenda

Cited by 15 publications

References 25 publications

Improved Dijkstra Algorithm for Mobile Robot Path Planning and Obstacle Avoidance

Improved Dijkstra Algorithm for Mobile Robot Path Planning and Obstacle Avoidance

Implementation of learning by design in a synchronized online environment to teach educational robotics to inservice teachers

Training Of Student-Teachers To Organize Clubs Of Engineering Creativity

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