Educational robotics for promoting 21st century skills

• Autorzy: Eguchi A.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

This paper introduces an educational robotics course offered as one of the Interdisciplinary Studies Courses under General Education category at a liberal art college that serves predominately underprivileged population of students from neighboring communities in New Jersey. It also presents the case study to examine participated students’ learning from the course. The results show that, although the focus of the course is the educational robotics and programming to control robots created with LEGO Mindstorms, the students identified their learning of collaboration and cooperation skills as well as communication skills as one of the best learning outcomes from the course.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

robotics in education; 21st century skills

• Wydawca: Łukasiewicz Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements PIAP
• Czasopismo: Journal of Automation Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems
• Rocznik: 2014
• Tom: Vol. 8, No. 1
• Strony: 5--11
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 27 poz., rys.

Twórcy

autor

Eguchi A.

• Division of Education, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ, USA
• [e-mail]

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