Faster pedagogical framework for steam education based on educational robotics

Abstract

Globalization and sustainable development requires shifting education targets from acquisition of structures knowledge to the mastery of skills. Robot-aided learning can used as a tool of creativity in AHSS (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) classes thus attracting the attention of learners to cross-disciplinary subjects with elements of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), which is expanded to STEAM (STEM + All). The presented FASTER pedagogical framework is based on the combination of project-based teaching, educational robotics and team based learning for achieving educational aims and supporting creativity in class. We describe the practical use of the framework in a university course, with specific examples of student projects. Finally, we discuss the educational implications of the framework and beyond.

Balanced, Unbalances, and One-Sided Distributed Teams - An Empirical View on Global Software Engineering Education

“…A shift from acquiring knowledge to the mastery of skills might be necessary in an increasingly globalized working landscape and for sustainable development. Damasevicius et al affirm this from a longterm view on learning [15].…”

Training by Projects in an Industrial Robotic Application

“…In [19], there is a collaborative work between the students and the teacher in which the researchers' terms and functions are naturally involved; in the activities proposed in the execution of the project, there are no hierarchies and each one contributes from their perception and creativity, and robotics projects are part of the curricular activities. In [20], it proposes a course by stages for the development of projects with the robotic educational analysis of state of the art, implementation, pedagogical design, learning scenarios, pilot use, validation, and social evaluation, and this procedure is performed with students of schools. The way to maintain interest in the project is through the approach of ideas proposed by students, the development of skills, and socialization of results by different means including social networks, and in [21], a conductive and constructivist activities series used to identify the benefits of the strategy called collaborative learning is executed.…”

“…In addition, in this phase, there was an intense work of the apprentices of the electricity hotbed for obtaining the required information by configuring a brief state of art about publications of other works in the last 2 years, whose central theme is pedagogical robotics or educational robotics through the metasearch engine Scopus. This is how [19] refers to robotics in education as the appropriate option to increase the efficiency of the formation of research competencies in school studies; in [20], it goes further as robotics learning is considered as the pretext to involve multiple disciplines from the humanities, social sciences to mathematics and engineering that encourages creativity, while in [21], it not only states that the subject of robotics is attractive to students but also poses an evaluative methodology training for teachers taking into account the great complexity of the multidisciplinary theme of robotics is addressed by a cybernetic model of pedagogical feedback, collaborative learning, and empathy; and in [22], a model of robotics in education applied in classrooms of the local education system is presented, where we want to cover the needs of the current society and strengthen students' knowledge. Additionally, we have found a series of articles dedicated to the study of multiple works on educational robotics, pedagogical robotics, social robots, and the technologies used, reviewing different databases and metasearch engines such as web of science, Scopus, Science direct, IEEE, among others spanning periods ranging from the last 5 years to the last Training by Projects in an Industrial Robotic Application DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.90667 decade, this type of publications allows to have more condensed information on the contributions developed and show trends in the research processes [23][24][25], not only focus In the student's response they also discuss the teacher's role.…”

Robotics and Education: A Systematic Review

“…Sociability implies the existence of interaction relationships. A social robot is an agent that can interact and have communicative behavior [10].…”