Teacher's Kit: Development, Usability, and Communities of Modular Robotic Kits for Classroom Education

Takács, Árpád; Eigner, György; Kovács, Levente; Rudas, Imre J.; Haidegger, Tamás

doi:10.1109/mra.2016.2548754

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“…Takács et al [4] compared different educational kits and the LEGO Mindstorms is the cheaper modular robotic kit in the market and had good reviews in the adopted criteria cost, modularity level, design, Thus, the uses of kits from LEGO provided the illustration of these issues in a quick, easy and low cost way.…”

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“…In spite of the usefulness and the versatility of such an educational tool, it is not widely used in Brazil, mainly due to the high costs of the equipment. In [4] was affirmed that the popularity of robotics kits in education is significantly higher in the developed countries (typically Western Europe and North America), while the kits are still on the edge of breaking into the market of developing countries (South Asia and Africa). In function of initiative of RoboCup Brazil Federation that promote robotics competition (http://www.cbrobotica.org/?page_id=6&lang=en) I include the Brazil in the edge, i. e., is in the accelerated progress of incorporation of robotics kits in undergraduate curses of Mechatronics Engineering.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A current problem has motivated the development of this research comprising a low cost solution to implement in the Mechatronics Engineering course at the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU). Today, in the market, there are several kits specially designed for education, in which students are required to have fun at the same time as they learn the bases of Mechatronics [4][5][6][7]. One of the major educator's challenges is to teach the theoretical lessons with practical examples that can be taught in the classroom or teaching laboratories.…”

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Application of LEGO Mindstorms Kits for Teaching Mechatronics Engineering

Gonçalves

2017

Int J Innov Educ Res

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One of the major educators’ challenges is to teach the theoretical lessons with practical examples that can be taught in the classroom or teaching laboratories. The application of these examples will face a major problem for students in engineering: the difficulty of understanding and seeing how a mechatronic device works in everyday life. This requires the use of tools that enable the construction of different low cost prototypes to assist in student learning. Another challenge to educators is the need to motivate students during the lessons and to present models that students can make and develop on their own. Within this context this paper presents a pedagogic proposition based on the use of LEGO Mindstorms kits to teach practical lab activities in a mechatronics engineering course. The objective is to develop teaching methodologies with the use of these LEGO kits in order to motivate the students and also to promote a higher interdisciplinarity, by proposing projects that unify different disciplines. Thus, the paper is divided into three parts according to the educational experiences implemented in the course of mechatronics engineering at the Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil. The first part presents the use of the kits in robotics discipline. The second part presents the use of the virtual kits in the Computer Aided Design discipline with zero-cost. The third part presents a multi-disciplinary project EDROM in mechatronics using LEGO kits.

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Application of LEGO Mindstorms Kits for Teaching Mechatronics Engineering

Gonçalves

2017

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“…Grande parte das oficinas e experimentos de (RE) vêm sendo desenvolvida com o Kit LEGO® MINDSTORMS®, sendo este provavelmente o kit modular mais popularizado e veiculado, e possui grandes possibilidades de aplicação (TAKACS et al, 2016). Eteokleous e Ktoridou (2014), Cruz-Martin et.…”

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A Robótica Educacional Como Ferramenta Para O Ensino De Cinemática

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Rev. Elet. Deb. Educ. Cient. Tecnol.

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A Robótica Educacional (RE), que consiste no uso de robôs tendo em vista da proposição e do suporte ao processo de ensino e aprendizagem, tem assumido papel importante e se apresenta de forma recorrente em pesquisas nos últimos anos. Outrossim, num âmbito particular, a (RE) se apresenta como ferramenta também aplicável para o Ensino de Física, uma vez que nesse tipo de abordagem, os dados são adquiridos pelos próprios alunos, o que torna o estudo relativamente mais próximo dos estudantes. Neste trabalho, desenvolveu-se um conjunto de oficinas de RE para o ensino de Cinemática. Para a realização das oficinas foram utilizados Kits LEGO® MINDSTORMS®. Resultados mostram que dos 50% dos alunos que disseram não gostar de Física, 92,31% afirmaram que se sentiriam mais motivados para estudar Física com Robótica Educacional, além disso, 78,57% dos alunos respondeu que se sentiu mais interessado em ir para a escola por conta das oficinas de Física usando a Robótica Educacional, acrescente-se ainda o fato de que 96,43% dos alunos considerou que o uso de robôs melhorou a aprendizagem. Deste modo, os resultados mostram que a abordagem adotada contribuiu positivamente para o ensino de Cinemática, bem como na motivação para o estudo de física e participação ativa nas aulas.

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“…Moreover, ER has been attracting more attention because of the increased availability of robotics platforms and programs suitable for students of different ages and intellectual levels [31] [32]. During the early 2000s, students had very few available options for robotics kits.…”

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confidence: 99%