Robotics in STEM education : redesigning the learning experience

✍ Scribed by Khine, Myint Swe

• Publisher: Springer Verlag [2017] ©2017
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 260
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book describes recent approaches in advancing STEM education with the use of robotics, innovative methods in integrating robotics in school subjects, engaging and stimulating students with robotics in classroom-based and out-of-school activities, and new ways of using robotics as an educational tool to provide diverse learning experiences. It addresses issues and challenges in generating enthusiasm among students and revamping curricula to provide application focused and hands-on approaches in learning . The book also provides effective strategies and emerging trends in using robotics, designing learning activities and how robotics impacts the students’ interests and achievements in STEM related subjects.

The frontiers of education are progressing very rapidly. This volume brought together a collection of projects and ideas which help us keep track of where the frontiers are moving. This book ticks lots of contemporary boxes: STEM, robotics, coding, and computational thinking among them. Most educators interested in the STEM phenomena will find many ideas in this book which challenge, provide evidence and suggest solutions related to both pedagogy and content. Regular reference to 21st Century skills, achieved through active collaborative learning in authentic contexts, ensures the enduring usefulness of this volume.

John Williams
Professor of Education and Director of the STEM Education Research Group
Curtin University, Perth, Australia

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-vi
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Bringing Robotics in Classrooms (Amy Eguchi)....Pages 3-31
Systems Thinking Approach to Robotics Curriculum in Schools (Christina Chalmers, Rod Nason)....Pages 33-57
Combatting the War Against Machines: An Innovative Hands-on Approach to Coding (Jacqui Chetty)....Pages 59-83
The Open Academic Robot Kit (Raymond K. Sheh, Amy Eguchi, Haldun Komsuoglu, Adam Jacoff)....Pages 85-100
Front Matter ....Pages 101-101
How Have Robots Supported STEM Teaching? (Fabiane Barreto Vavassori Benitti, Newton Spolaôr)....Pages 103-129
Robotics Festival and Competitions Designed for STEM+C Education (ChanJin Chung, Christopher Cartwright, Joe DeRose)....Pages 131-170
Meeting Twenty-first Century Robotics and Automation Workforce Needs in the USA (Aleksandr Sergeyev)....Pages 171-194
STEM Education by Exploring Robotics (Francis Tuluri)....Pages 195-209
Front Matter ....Pages 211-211
The Creative Nature of Robotics Activity: Design and Problem Solving (Florence R. Sullivan)....Pages 213-230
Dancing, Drawing, and Dramatic Robots: Integrating Robotics and the Arts to Teach Foundational STEAM Concepts to Young Children (Amanda Sullivan, Amanda Strawhacker, Marina Umaschi Bers)....Pages 231-260
Back Matter ....Pages 261-262

✦ Subjects

Scanning transmission electron microscopy -- Study and teaching;Robotics -- Study and teaching;SCIENCE / General