Creativity and Contextualization Activities in Educational Robotics to Improve Engineering and Computational Thinking

Valls, Albert; Albó-Canals, Jordi; Canaleta, Xavier

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-62875-2_9

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“…The average is 189.4 and the standard deviation, 368.05. Some experiments were applied to different groups with different numbers of students and several times, so they have also a high number of individuals involved [12,16,37,107]. Figure 4 shows the studies distribution by students involved.…”

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“…We should point out that the most popular devices were LEGO in different varieties such as LEGO NXT or LEGO MINDSTORM [35,38,66,70,86,103,107], and also, Arduino [10,42,85,92,93,96].…”

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“…Distribution of selected studies for MQ2, MQ3, MQ4, and MQ5 ,24,31,35-37,48,49,52,56-58,61,63,70,73,76,78,81,84,86,87,93,97,103,109,112] Physical devices [10,14,21,38,42,44,51,65,74,90,92,96,102,107] Both [11,20,22,26,30,64,66,79,85,104,105,111] Section C-Methodology PBL[11,14,42,48,51,52,57,76,79,92,93,105,107,112] PrBL[10,11,22,24,30,31,35,36,38,44,56,58,61,64,65,73,74,78,81,84,85,87,90,102,103,107,109,111,112] 29…”

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Fostering STEAM through challenge‐based learning, robotics, and physical devices: A systematic mapping literature review

Conde-González

Rodríguez‐Sedano

Fernández‐Llamas

et al. 2020

Comp Applic In Engineering

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Nowadays, companies are demanding better‐prepared professionals to succeed in a digital society, and the acquisition of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)‐related competencies is a key issue. One of the main problems in this sense is how to integrate STEAM into the current educational curricula. This is not something related to a subject or educational trend but rather to new methodological approaches that can engage students. In this sense, such active methodologies that apply mechatronics and robotics could be an interesting path to pursue. Given this context, the first necessary task in evaluating the potential of this approach is to understand the landscape of the application of robotics and mechatronics in STEAM Education and how active methodologies are applied in this sense. To carry out this analysis in a systematic and replicable manner, it is necessary to follow a methodology. In this case, the researchers employ a systematic mapping review. This paper presents this process and its main findings. Fifty‐four studies have been selected out of 242 total studies analyzed. From these, beyond obtaining a clear vision of the STEAM landscape regarding project topics, we can also conclude that robotics and physical devices have been applied successfully with collaborative methodologies in STEAM Education. Regarding conclusions, this paper shows that robotics and mechatronics applied with active methodologies is to be a good means to engage students in STEAM disciplines and thus aid the acquisition of what is commonly known as “21st‐century skills.”

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“…We should point out that the most popular devices were LEGO in different varieties such as LEGO NXT or LEGO MINDSTORM [35,38,66,70,86,103,107], and also, Arduino [10,42,85,92,93,96].…”

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Fostering STEAM through challenge‐based learning, robotics, and physical devices: A systematic mapping literature review

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Fernández‐Llamas

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“…Nevertheless, despite being closely related and mutually beneficial, e.g., in emphasizing various CT components [7], the methods have mainly been considered in their different pairwise combinations [30,[35][36][37][38][39][40], but rarely complete [31,[41][42][43]. For example, the study of Leonard et al [31,42] looked at the potential of engaging youth in three areas: (a) robotics, (b) digital gaming, and (c) computational thinking through the use of LEGO ® robotics kits, MINDSTORMS ® software (LEGO Group, Billund, Denmark), and AgentSheets/AgentCubes object-based programming environments used for game design.…”

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“…They rightfully believe that "the excitement of getting a robot to move and perform a task combined with the creativity associated with developing a game from scratch influenced this result". Whereas the work of Valls et al [41], through the use of Scratch and LEGO MINDSTORMS ® , has demonstrated creativity to be a fundamental pillar in STEAM teaching. In particular, the final results revealed that contextualized activities, art, motivation, and collaboration enabled the control group to generate more creative, complex, and varying solutions and obtain better results in the areas of competence and knowledge of technology platform in a shorter time.…”

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Computational Design Thinking and Physical Computing: Preliminary Observations of a Pilot Study

Dochshanov¹,

Tramonti²

2020

Robotics

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Today’s technological development inevitably defies educational approaches in terms of future demand for skills to be imparted. Among other skills, the capacity to operate and communicate effectively within multidisciplinary realms is duly considered as the fundamental one. Educational robotics (ER) and STEM do constitute a suitable framework for the development of these specific skills. Moreover, competences such as computational (CT) and design thinking (DT) have already been nominated as necessary to adapt to the future and relevant for innovation. The years of independent development and evidence of practical implementation justify the maturity of the related methodological approaches and emerging gradual shift towards their combination. In this regard, the actual work presents a pilot experience of the combined application of computational design thinking and educational robotics in the case of a 9-to-11-year-old target audience. The approach utilizes a novel platform developed under the project Coding4Girls combining design thinking and game-based learning and introduces physical computing through consecutive assembling and programming an IR-controlled robot-car. The core of the learning path consists in the development of primary programming skills and their gradual transfer into the physical realm. The method, as the study demonstrates, is capable of helping keep students both motivated and result-oriented throughout the duration of the course.

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The Effect of Commercially Available Educational Robotics: A Systematic Review

Pedersen

Larsen

Nielsen

2019

Robotics in Education

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Educational institutions planning to invest in Educational Robotics are faced with a wide selection of products. Yet, we have not been able to find any review studies on the effect of these products, to guide the institutions to get the most out of their investments. For this review, 29 Educational Robotics products were therefore selected, and eight major databases were searched for effect studies involving these. The search yielded 301 results, of which 17 were selected for synthesizing. The studies and their respective findings are discussed in the review. Unfortunately, there were not enough studies to compare the effect of the products and more research is therefore needed. In addition, the studies methodologies and design have been analyzed, and a series of recommendations for how future experimental/quasi-experimental studies within the field can be design and conducted, have been established.

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Creativity and Contextualization Activities in Educational Robotics to Improve Engineering and Computational Thinking

Cited by 18 publications

References 7 publications

Fostering STEAM through challenge‐based learning, robotics, and physical devices: A systematic mapping literature review

Fostering STEAM through challenge‐based learning, robotics, and physical devices: A systematic mapping literature review

Computational Design Thinking and Physical Computing: Preliminary Observations of a Pilot Study

The Effect of Commercially Available Educational Robotics: A Systematic Review

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