Robotics Competitions as an Integral Part of STEM Education

Christoforou, Eftychios G.; Avgousti, Sotiris; Masouras, Panicos; Cheng, Pericles; Panayides, Alexandros

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-67411-3_18

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“…There is no duplication between the feature in document D. Regardless of the document's internal structure, there is no sequential relationship in the arrangement of the feature, and the feature is regarded as an n-dimensional coordinate system with a weight of coordinate value. The VSM of document D can be represented by Eq (3).…”

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The development of robotics courses for young children under vector space model

Zuo,

Che,

Zhang

2023

PLoS ONE

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Robotics education is important in training children’s thinking, practical, and innovation abilities. It is significant to stimulate children’s interest in learning and improve their learning quality. The existing research has not paid attention to the application of robotics education in children. It is necessary to stimulate children’s interest in learning. This paper will take senior kindergarten students as the research object. It analyzes the application of the Vector Space Model (VSM) in robotics course development. The research and development of children’s robotics courses incorporating Artificial Intelligence technology are based on the survey results of robotics courses offered by 38 kindergartens in Baoji City. An automatic document classification system based on VSM is designed to assist in compiling robotics teaching textbooks. Finally, the system performance is tested. The results show that about 24% of kindergartens offer robotics courses, and 76% do not. Besides, 70.14% of teachers support the establishment of children’s robotics courses. The classification effect of the VSM system is better than that of Chinese documents. This system performs better than the automatic document classification system based on Term Frequency–Inverse Document Frequency. Its classification accuracy, recall, and F1 value are all above 85%. The development of the robotics course provides a better teaching environment for teaching young children about AI and robots. The robotics education discussed in this paper is a hot spot in the current curriculum reform and is of great significance to the development and innovation in early childhood education.

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“…It plays a positive role in promoting the growth of students. Modern robotics education mainly aims at primary and secondary school students [3]. However, senior kindergarten students can also learn robotics courses.…”

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