Educational Robotics at Primary School: Comparison of Two Research Studies

Wu, Pei-Jung; Chiu, Fu-Yuan; Mayerová, Karolína; Kubincová, Zuzana

doi:10.1109/ithet.2018.8424621

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“…The use of Robotics in early education was additionally applied for conducting STEM related activities. Specifically, 10 out of the 12 collected applications tested robotic technology in order to advance students' technological literacy [55], to enhance technology attitudes and self-efficacy [64] and to conduct activities around the topics of electromagnetism [56], [62], scientific research [58], problem solving, planning, CT and programming [12], [59], [60], [63]- [65].…”

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“…All the applications showed that Robotics in early education can be used as an effective tool to enhance learning. By stimulating students' motivation and interest [65], [67], [68] it can support students in developing a variety of skills such as self-regulated learning [61], executive skills [12], CT [59], [60], [63] and problem solving [57], [60], [65]. It can also improve students' learning outcomes in programming [42], [45], [46], [48] and other areas not related to robotics.…”

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“…To evaluate the effectiveness of the integration of the robotic tools in early education various methods are applied, including analysis of video and images taken during the activities [55], [57], [58], data scanned with the help of the robotic application [56], teachers' observations [57], interviews with teachers [59] and students [64], surveys with the students [62], [64], [65] and teachers [59] and standardized domain assessments [12], [56], [60]- [63].…”

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“…Most of the collected applications (10 out of 12) employed robotic kits to involve students in programming and construction activities [12], [55]- [57], [59], [60], [62]- [65]; the rest used the robotic technology as a means to learn about scientific research [58] or to support self-regulated learning [61].…”

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Robotics in the Context of Primary and Preschool Education: A Scoping Review

Mangina¹,

Psyrra²,

Screpanti³

et al. 2024

IEEE Trans. Learning Technol.

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This paper presents an overview of Educational Robotics (ER) in primary and pre-school education. As ER seems to be gaining popularity for its effectiveness as a learning tool, more research needs to be done in this area. Recent results from ER pilot projects advocate for the integration of ER in K-12 education curricula. On the other hand, teachers may face various difficulties in carrying out such activities due to lack of experience or knowledge in this field. Previous research has shown that ER is still an open field for exploration. Even though an increasing number of experiences are available for the use of robotic tools in early education, there is not enough empirical evidence on the features they need to present for young learners to perceive them as attractive and easy to use. In addition, the high cost of some tools may prevent educational institutions from using them systematically. To detect possible gaps in the current research, in the context of this work, 21 articles that have been published between 2011-2021 and represent ER applications and frameworks were collected and reviewed. The results of this study demonstrate that ER can be a valuable tool for supporting primary and pre-school students. However, the review supports that more research is needed on the technical features that a robotic tool must have to be successfully introduced to students of this age. Moreover, future work is needed to develop low-cost educational robotic tools so they can become more accessible to educational institutions.

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Section: Rq1 What Is the Current State Of Robotics Applications In Th...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Rq1 What Is the Current State Of Robotics Applications In Th...mentioning

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Robotics in the Context of Primary and Preschool Education: A Scoping Review

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Screpanti³

et al. 2024

IEEE Trans. Learning Technol.

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“…To find the indicators of the level of senior school students' robotics design skills, it is going to consider the particular skills that are the components of the competence (Kyei- Blankson, 2014;Ali et al, 2018;Anamova et al, 2019;Wu et al, 2018;Tuna & Ahmetoğlu, 2019;Harada, 2020). By the capability of the senior school students in the robotics design, it means the personal competence combining the knowledge and skills, providing an opportunity to set a task in a particular way: − to choose the design objects and to find the interconnections between the components of the research process; − to translate the developed concepts into the language of formulas and signs, to understand the algorithms and mathematical methods for the computation of the characteristics of a robotics model;…”

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Integration of Robotics Design Into the Learning Process at School

Kozhagul¹,

Bidaibekov²,

Bostanov³

et al. 2020

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The application of teaching methods to the learning process at school is defined by the fact that every teacher or curriculum developer strives to ensure that his or her concepts of teaching and formation of the educational principles are implemented in the educational environment most effectively. Such forms of interaction cause the fact that every teacher strives to integrate the practical elements of the subject area into the learning process both as the exact structures and as the formalized complicated forms of didactics. This study aimed the revealing of this aspect of the pedagogical problem. The analysis of the previous knowledge and abilities shows that teaching the methods for the design of the robotics’ elements to the senior school students has a significant potential for the active form of the subject competencies. The obtained results of the teaching experiment have generally proved the hypothesis of pedagogical research. If to apply a unique system of didactic conditions, forms and development methods of the senior school students’ robotics design skills to robotic design and solution of tasks and practical assignments based on the construction and research of the sequence of sub-models, then it will contribute to the increase in the effectiveness of the robotic design teaching, the formation of the students’ ideas of the model nature of cognition, and the development of their cognitive and creative abilities. The obtained results show that teaching course ‘Robotics Design as a Method for Solution of Application Tasks’ to students contributes to the increase in the level of the senior school students’ robotics design skills by each particular criteria, which proves the pedagogical rationale of introducing the revealed and theoretically substantiated didactic conditions for the development of the senior school students’ robotics design skills.

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