Robotics and Programming Concepts in Early Childhood Education: A Conceptual Framework for Designing Educational Scenarios

Misirli, Anastasia; Komis, Vassilis

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-6501-0_8

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“…In this paper, we refer to robotics education as the application of educational robots in a teaching and learning context [5]. In other words, robotics education teaches about robotics or other subject areas by adopting educational robotics technologies.…”

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Systematic Review of Research Trends in Robotics Education for Young Children

2018

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This study conducted a systematic and thematic review on existing literature in robotics education using robotics kits (not social robots) for young children (Pre-K and kindergarten through 5th grade). This study investigated: (1) the definition of robotics education; (2) thematic patterns of key findings; and (3) theoretical and methodological traits. The results of the review present a limitation of previous research in that it has focused on robotics education only as an instrumental means to support other subjects or STEM education. This study identifies that the findings of the existing research are weighted toward outcome-focused research. Lastly, this study addresses the fact that most of the existing studies used constructivist and constructionist frameworks not only to design and implement robotics curricula but also to analyze young children's engagement in robotics education. Relying on the findings of the review, this study suggests clarifying and specifying robotics-intensified knowledge, skills, and attitudes in defining robotics education in connection to computer science education. In addition, this study concludes that research agendas need to be diversified and the diversity of research participants needs to be broadened. To do this, this study suggests employing social and cultural theoretical frameworks and critical analytical lenses by considering children's historical, cultural, social, and institutional contexts in understanding young children's engagement in robotics education.

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Systematic Review of Research Trends in Robotics Education for Young Children

2018

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“…Since there are few articles that address principle-based framework for teaching educational robotics concepts for early childhood (Misirli and Komis, 2014), this aspect of the proposed framework will be dealt with more extensively. botSTEM concurs with the definition found in Wikipedia for robots and robotics:…”

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Robotics and Early-years STEM Education: The botSTEM Framework and Activities

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Fridberg

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European Journal of STEM Education

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botSTEM is an ERASMUS+ project aiming to raise the utilisation of inquiry-based collaborative learning and robots-enhanced education. The project outputs are specifically aimed to provide in-and pre-service teachers in Childhood and Primary Education and children four-eight years old, with research-based materials and practices that use integrated Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) and robot-based approaches, including code-learning, for enhancing scientific literacy in young children. This article presents the outputs from the botSTEM project; the didactical framework underpinning the teaching material, addressing pedagogy and content. It is a gender inclusive pedagogy that makes use of inquiry, engineering design methodology, collaborative work and robotics. The article starts with a presentation of the botSTEM toolkit with assorted teaching practices and finishes with examples of preliminary results from a qualitative analysis of implemented activities during science teaching in preschools. It turns out that despite perceived obstacles that teachers initially expressed, the analysis of the implementations indicates that the proposed STEM integrated framework, including inquiry teaching and engineering design methodologies, can be used with children as young as four years old.

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“…En él se puede observar que se manejan patrones de velocidad, distancia y ángulo de giro, introduciendo además el concepto de repetición mediante los números que se muestran en el teclado. El valor añadido que presenta este robot es el potencial que posee para el desarrollo de conceptos matemáticos en la niñez (Misirli & Komis, 2014). Por otra parte, la creación de un pseudo-lenguaje mediante la representación gráfica de los comandos del robot Roamer es una estrategia de enseñanza apropiada para la visualización de los procedimientos de programación.…”

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Estado del arte en la enseñanza del pensamiento computacional y la programación en la etapa infantil

González-González

2019

Education in the Knowledge Society

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Learning to code is the new literacy of the 21st century. Computational thinking, closely related to programming and coding, requires thinking and solving problems with different levels of abstraction and it is independent of software or hardware devices. This work analyzes the main initiatives related to computer thinking in schools, the use of specific tools, such as robotics kits or educational programming environments, and main teaching-learning strategies used in early childhood education. R E S U M E N Aprender a programar es la nueva alfabetización del siglo XXI. El pensamiento computacional, estrechamente relacionado con la programación, requiere pensar y resolver problemas con diferentes niveles de abstracción y es independiente de los dispositivos de hardware. En este artículo se analizan las principales iniciativas relacionadas con el pensamiento computacional en las escuelas, el uso de herramientas específicas, tales como los kits de robótica o entornos de programación educativa, y principales estrategias de enseñanza-aprendizaje utilizadas en educación infantil.

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Robotics and Programming Concepts in Early Childhood Education: A Conceptual Framework for Designing Educational Scenarios

Cited by 65 publications

References 5 publications

Systematic Review of Research Trends in Robotics Education for Young Children

Systematic Review of Research Trends in Robotics Education for Young Children

Robotics and Early-years STEM Education: The botSTEM Framework and Activities

Estado del arte en la enseñanza del pensamiento computacional y la programación en la etapa infantil

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