Teaching Robotics in Secondary School

Filippov, Sergey A.; Ten, Natalia; Shirokolobov, Ilya; Fradkov, Alexander L.

doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.2143

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“…Jung et al [24] presented a summary of 41 articles to explain different ways to teach objectives, teach contents, and to teach methods of robotics education in connection to STEM education. Filipop et al [14] proposed an experience to teach robotics in secondary school. All of them proposed an specific method to teach and describe their experience.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Methodological Approach to the Learning of Robotics with EDUROSC-Kids

Patiño-Escarcina

Barrios-Aranibar

Bernedo-Flores

et al. 2021

J Intell Robot Syst

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With advances in science and technology, several innovative researches have been developed trying to figure out the main problems related to children's learning. It is known that issues such as frustration and inattention, between others, affect student learning. In this fashion, robotics is an important resource that can be used towards helping to solve these issues, empowering our students in order to push their learning up. In this case, robotic tools are generally used considering two different paradigms: as the main focus and as a secondary focus. Actually, these paradigms define the way that Educational Robotics is implemented in schools. Most of the approaches have implemented it as the main focus, which is teaching Robotics. Nevertheless, there are quite a few works that implement robotics as a secondary focus, which is currently assisting the learning process in several disciplines. The main contribution of this work is a complete three steps methodology for Robotics in Education to guide projects in order to either use it alone or to teach robotics with others topics. Our experiments show the importance of devising a study plan and evaluation method because the process is iterative and could improve the final results. As a novelty, here we have joined and extended our previous works by proposing a new set of methods with guidelines and strategies for applying the educational robotics standard curriculum for kids, named EDUROSC-Kids. We propose several tools that have been developed to organize the learning topics of Robotics for children, including the desired outcomes during the learning process. As said our current approach is divided in three steps (or phases): setting up the environment, defining the project, and performing evaluation. The proposed curriculum organizes robotics contents into five disciplines: Robotics and Society, Mechanics, Electronics, Programming, and Control Theory. Also, it considers a set of topics for each discipline and defines the level of knowledge that is recommended to achieve each group of children based on Bloom's Nomenclature. The contribution on this paper is a crucial step towards linking the general learning process with Educational Robotics approaches. Our methodology is validated by presenting practical experiences with application of EDUROSC-kids and the proposed method with a rubric guidelines into groups of children.

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confidence: 99%

A Methodological Approach to the Learning of Robotics with EDUROSC-Kids

Patiño-Escarcina

Barrios-Aranibar

Bernedo-Flores

et al. 2021

J Intell Robot Syst

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“…Arduino boards appeared some years ago, in an effort to work around the closed-platforms limitation, providing cheaper and more adapted robotic platforms. This is a free hardware board that allows a wide variety of low-cost robotic components to be added [21,[25][26][27][28]. Thus, beginning with a basic and affordable Arduino platform, teachers and students can freely adapt it to their necessities, developing an effective and low-cost robot, as described in [29][30][31][32].…”

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“…Other platforms are Thymio (Figure 2 left) [17,33,34], Meet Edison's or VEX robots ( Figure 2 middle and right), and simulated environments such as TRIK-Studio [28,35] or Robot Virtual Worlds (RVW) [36]. Beyond the robotic hardware platforms, different software frameworks can be found in educational robotics.…”

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“…Exploring the existing literature, we found a set of exercises that are frequently used in different teaching frameworks and academic proposals, in an almost cross-curricular manner. One of the classic projects is the follow-line behavior [15,21,28,35], as shown in Figure 14. In this project, the robot has IR sensors pointing to the ground, which is white but has a thick black line.…”

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PiBot: An Open Low-Cost Robotic Platform with Camera for STEM Education

Vega

Plaza

2018

Electronics

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This paper presents a robotic platform, PiBot, which was developed to improve the teaching of robotics with vision to secondary students. Its computational core is the Raspberry Pi 3 controller board, and the greatest novelty of this prototype is the support developed for the powerful camera mounted on board, the PiCamera. An open software infrastructure written in Python language was implemented so that the student may use this camera as the main sensor of the robotic platform. Furthermore, higher-level commands were provided to enhance the learning outcome for beginners. In addition, a PiBot 3D printable model and the counterpart for the Gazebo simulator were also developed and fully supported. They are publicly available so that students and schools without the physical robot or that cannot afford to obtain one, can nevertheless practice, learn and teach Robotics using these open platforms: DIY-PiBot and/or simulated-PiBot.

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“…Nevertheless, Arduino boards appeared some years ago, in an effort to work around the closed-platforms limitation, providing cheaper and more adapted robotic platforms. This is a free hardware board which lets add a wide variety of low-cost robotic components ( [16], [17], [15], [18], [19]). Thus, beginning with a basic and affordable Arduino platform, teachers and students can freely adapt it to their necessities, developing an effective and low-cost robot as described in ([20], [21], [22], [23]).…”

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confidence: 99%

PiBot: An Open Low-Cost Robotic Platform With Camera for STEM Education

Vega¹,

Plaza²

2018

Preprint

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This paper presents the robotic platform, PiBot, that has been developed and that is aimed at improving the teaching of Robotics with vision to secondary students. Its computational core is the Raspberry Pi 3 controller board, and the greatest novelty of this prototype is the support developed for the powerful camera mounted on board, the PiCamera. An open software infrastructure written in Python language was implemented so that the student may use this camera, or even a WebCam, as the main sensor of this robotic platform. Also, higher level commands have been provided to enhance the learning outcome for beginners. In addition, a PiBot 3D printable model and the counterpart for the Gazebo simulator were also developed and fully supported. They are publicly available so that students and educational centers that do not have the physical robot or can not afford the costs of these, can nevertheless practice and learn or teach Robotics using these open platforms: DIY-PiBot and/or simulated-PiBot.

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Teaching Robotics in Secondary School

Cited by 25 publications

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A Methodological Approach to the Learning of Robotics with EDUROSC-Kids

A Methodological Approach to the Learning of Robotics with EDUROSC-Kids

PiBot: An Open Low-Cost Robotic Platform with Camera for STEM Education

PiBot: An Open Low-Cost Robotic Platform With Camera for STEM Education

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