The use of LEGO mindstorms in elementary schools

Zygouris, Nikolaos C.; Striftou, Aikaterini; Dadaliaris, Antonios N.; Stamoulis, George; Xenakis, Apostolos; Vavougios, George D.

doi:10.1109/educon.2017.7942895

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“…Chaudhary et al (2016) use LEGO Mindstorms EV3 robots for the teaching of computational thinking, problem solving, teamwork and project management skills. Finally, Zygouris et al (2017) use LEGO Mindstorms NXT robots to teach 12-year-old students basic geometry concepts.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The benefits of using the robotics in learning environments can be applied to all educational levels (Afari & Khine, 2017;Zygouris, Striftou, Dadaliaris, Stamoulis, Xenakis & Vavougios, 2017). However, most of the educational experiences reported in the literature are carried out with students from 13 to 18 years old, mainly in the framework of K-12 Education (Souza et al, 2018;Xia & Zhong, 2018).…”

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Physical visualization of math concepts using LEGO Mindstorms

Suárez-Gómez

Peréz-Holguín

2020

J. Technol. Sci. Educ.

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Educational robotics has become one of the most effective methods to teach STEM concepts in a practical and didactic way at all educational level. In this context, the LEGO Mindstorms robotic platforms have been widely used due to their versatility ease of use and modularity. Despite this, most of the papers focus on K-12 and undergraduate levels, with little information reported in the literature about educational experiences at the graduate level. This article deals with the use of educational robotics for the teaching of mathematical concepts at the graduate level, and more specifically on the physical visualization of metrics (Euclidean, Taxicab, and Infinity), and the convergence of Cauchy's succession using a mobile robots LEGO Mindstorms NXT. The educational experience was applied to a group of graduate students who offered good comments on this type of educational activity and its usefulness to understand the mathematical concepts addressed. It was observed that this type of educational experiences motivates students to use mathematical concepts in interdisciplinary problems and encourages them to understand their functionality and application in the real world.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Physical visualization of math concepts using LEGO Mindstorms

Suárez-Gómez

Peréz-Holguín

2020

J. Technol. Sci. Educ.

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“…vi. Attracts students to technological and scientific studies, and increase their academic performance in several courses [57], since engaging in robots enables them to apply and learn knowledge from several technical fields [55].…”

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Action Research Implementation in Developing an Open Source and Low Cost Robotic Platform for STEM Education

Chatzopoulos¹,

Papoutsidakis²,

Kalogiannakis³

et al. 2019

IJCA

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The aim of this paper is double: (a) to record the latest theoretical considerations (literature review) in the field of STEM (acronym of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), Educational Robotics and the Educational Robotic Platforms used in their implementation, and (b) to validate the argumentation on the potential contribution of an Action Research implementation on STEM education with the ultimate goal of designing and developing an "open philosophy", low-cost, hardware and software educational platform for the implementation of STEM and Educational Robotics.

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“…In addition to Chaudhary, Zygouris et al [9] used Lego Mindstorms, but they introduced the Lego Mindstorms NXT to a group of 12-year-old primary school students. The device was used as a hands-on approach in teaching geometry to students.…”

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“…The device was used as a hands-on approach in teaching geometry to students. The researchers concluded that students who used the device gained more knowledge in geometry than a control group of students who had normal lecturing without the Lego Mindstorms NXT [9].…”

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The Effectiveness of Using Robotics for Career Technology Education in a Middle School STE(A)M Course

Bodle¹

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings

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Using robotics in education allows students to become familiar with multiple topics in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). With the use of robotic educational tools in the 8th-12th grade classrooms, such as Sphero, Anki Cozmo, and Lego Mindstorms, few devices allow students to build the robots' electrical circuits along with constructing and programming. By incorporating electronics into these educational tools, students can learn another fundamental discipline of robotics. For this research, we introduce the Parallax ActivityBot 360⁰ to the Linus Pauling Middle School career technology education (CTE) course to see if the device promotes STEM. The ActivityBot 360⁰ incorporates robotics, electronics, computer science, and mathematics into constructing and using the device. Students use the tutorials given online to assemble the robot and to program it with a block-based coding language called BlocklyProp with an option to use the text-based C language. The main idea is to determine the effectiveness of this tool for CTE courses and how it can change students' interest, enjoyment, confidence, knowledge, and/or motivation to pursue a degree or career in STEM. For this research, we surveyed 8 th grade middle school students before and after using the device to see how their opinions and knowledge in STEM changed. From the results, we find that students' confidence in three of the four topics surveyed increased after using the ActivityBot 360⁰.

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The use of LEGO mindstorms in elementary schools

Cited by 30 publications

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Physical visualization of math concepts using LEGO Mindstorms

Physical visualization of math concepts using LEGO Mindstorms

Action Research Implementation in Developing an Open Source and Low Cost Robotic Platform for STEM Education

The Effectiveness of Using Robotics for Career Technology Education in a Middle School STE(A)M Course

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