TY - JOUR
T1 - The nuts and bolts of robotics in k-12 classrooms
T2 - 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference, ASEE 2020
AU - Fu, Tianshi
AU - Goldstein, Molly H.
AU - Golecki, Holly M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© American Society for Engineering Education 2020.
PY - 2020/6/22
Y1 - 2020/6/22
N2 - Increasingly, over the last two decades, robotics has been used in pre-college classrooms as well as extracurricular programs as an active learning approach to engage and challenge students with STEM concepts. Recent studies have taken comprehensive approaches to understand and synthesize benefits of robotics education with respect to general effectiveness, students' learning and transfer skills, creativity and motivation, and diversity and broadening participation. Literature suggests that educational robotics is successful in enhancing effectiveness, learning, and motivation for some. However, work remains to be done in increasing the diversity of student participants and developing methods to broaden participation. This work in progress paper aims to take a step back from the established benefits in order to categorize unique ways that robotics education is presented in and out of the classroom. Results from this review provide the impetus for investigating novel approaches to incorporate robotics into the pre-engineering classroom for better impact with underrepresented groups in engineering.
AB - Increasingly, over the last two decades, robotics has been used in pre-college classrooms as well as extracurricular programs as an active learning approach to engage and challenge students with STEM concepts. Recent studies have taken comprehensive approaches to understand and synthesize benefits of robotics education with respect to general effectiveness, students' learning and transfer skills, creativity and motivation, and diversity and broadening participation. Literature suggests that educational robotics is successful in enhancing effectiveness, learning, and motivation for some. However, work remains to be done in increasing the diversity of student participants and developing methods to broaden participation. This work in progress paper aims to take a step back from the established benefits in order to categorize unique ways that robotics education is presented in and out of the classroom. Results from this review provide the impetus for investigating novel approaches to incorporate robotics into the pre-engineering classroom for better impact with underrepresented groups in engineering.
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U2 - 10.18260/1-2--35352
DO - 10.18260/1-2--35352
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85095761933
SN - 2153-5965
VL - 2020-June
JO - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
JF - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
M1 - 1394
Y2 - 22 June 2020 through 26 June 2020
ER -