Smart Learning with Educational Robotics: Using Robots to Scaffold Learning Outcomes

✍ Scribed by Linda Daniela

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 368
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book will offer ideas on how robots can be used as teachers' assistants to scaffold learning outcomes, where the robot is a learning agent in self-directed learning who can contribute to the development of key competences for today's world through targeted learning - such as engineering thinking, math, physics, computational thinking, etc. starting from pre-school and continuing to a higher education level. Robotization is speeding up at the moment in a variety of dimensions, both through the automation of work, by performing intellectual duties, and by providing support for people in everyday situations. There is increasing political attention, especially in Europe, on educational systems not being able to keep up with such emerging technologies, and efforts to rectify this. This edited volume responds to this attention, and seeks to explore which pedagogical and educational concepts should be included in the learning process so that the use of robots is meaningful from the point of view of knowledge construction, and so that it is safe from the technological and cybersecurity perspective.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxviii
Beyond Coding: Back to the Future with Education Robots (Dave Catlin)....Pages 1-41
Educational Robotics for Reducing Early School Leaving from the Perspective of Sustainable Education (Linda Daniela, Raimonds Strods)....Pages 43-61
Towards a Definition of Educational Robotics: A Classification of Tools, Experiences and Assessments (David Scaradozzi, Laura Screpanti, Lorenzo Cesaretti)....Pages 63-92
Introducing Maker Movement in Educational Robotics: Beyond Prefabricated Robots and “Black Boxes” (Dimitris Alimisis, Rene Alimisi, Dimitrios Loukatos, Emmanouil Zoulias)....Pages 93-115
Modbloq. Design of a Modular Robot Made with 3D Printing for Educational Purposes (Pedro de Oro, Silvia Nuere)....Pages 117-147
Robotics in Primary School: A Realistic Mathematics Approach (Francisco Bellas, María Salgado, Teresa F. Blanco, Richard J. Duro)....Pages 149-182
Crab Robot: A Comparative Study Regarding the Use of Robotics in STEM Education (Icleia Santos, Elaine Cristina Grebogy, Luciano Frontino de Medeiros)....Pages 183-198
Innovative Tools for Teaching Marine Robotics, IoT and Control Strategies Since the Primary School (David Scaradozzi, Lorenzo Cesaretti, Laura Screpanti, Daniele Costa, Silvia Zingaretti, Mariantonietta Valzano)....Pages 199-227
Robot Programming to Empower Higher Cognitive Functions in Early Childhood (Maria Chiara Di Lieto, Chiara Pecini, Emanuela Castro, Emanuela Inguaggiato, Francesca Cecchi, Paolo Dario et al.)....Pages 229-250
Activities with Educational Robotics: Research Model and Tools for Evaluation of Progress (Linda Daniela, Raimonds Strods, Ilze France)....Pages 251-266
The Use of Robotics for STEM Education in Primary Schools: Teachers’ Perceptions (Ahmad Khanlari)....Pages 267-278
Using Robots to Introduce First-Year College Students to the Field of Electrical Engineering (Mounir Ben Ghalia)....Pages 279-296
Designing a Competition Robot as a Capstone Project for Electrical and Computer Engineering Students (Samuel Roberts, Joshua Acosta, Salvador Garza, Mounir Ben Ghalia, Heinrich Foltz)....Pages 297-316
Future Class Teachers and Educational Robotics: Current State and Possible Future Use (Ivana Đurđević Babić)....Pages 317-332
EduRobot Taxonomy (Dave Catlin, Martin Kandlhofer, John-John Cabibihan, Julian Angel-Fernandez, Stephanie Holmquist, Andrew Paul Csizmadia)....Pages 333-338
Back Matter ....Pages 339-346

✦ Subjects

Education; Educational Technology; Learning and Instruction; Robotics and Automation