Educational Robotics for STEM: From Workshops to Curricula and Framework
| Main Authors: | Girvan, Carina, Lepuschitz, Wilfried, Gueorguiev, Ivaylo, Todorova, Christina, Kynigos, Chronis, Grizioti, Marianthi, Giuliano, Angele, Duca, Annalise, Angel-Fernandez, Julian M., Vincze, Markus |
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| Format: | Proceeding Journal |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2018
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/1490019 |
Daftar Isi:
- This poster presents the outcomes of the first two years of a three-year project exploring and refining the use of educational robotics to engage young people in STEM education. It shows the development of activity plans which leverage constructionist concepts such as powerful ideas, objects to think with and the construction and sharing of personally meaningful artefacts in order to explore, test and extend understanding within STEM domains. Workshops in which these activity plans have been tested and refined, have so far engaged over 3,000 children between the ages of 7 and 18 in six European countries. Additionally, conferences and competitions for young people have been held each year where they compete and collaborate with others. These workshops and competitions have been systematically evaluated through QUAL+quant mixed methods, in order to inform the development of future activities and refinement of existing ones. Through this process we identify key components of successful educational robotics activities for STEM education. These have, in-turn, informed the design of a framework for educational robotics. The activity plans have informed the bottom-up development of a generic curriculum for educational robotics in STEM and are available on a dedicated repository. This poster presents a snapshot of each of these project outcomes.