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Robotics as a Powerful Vehicle Toward Learning and Computational Thinking in Secondary Education of 21st Century

Robotics as a Powerful Vehicle Toward Learning and Computational Thinking in Secondary Education of 21st Century

Katerina V. Glezou
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 40
ISBN13: 9781799867173|ISBN10: 179986717X|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799867180|EISBN13: 9781799867197
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6717-3.ch001
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Glezou, Katerina V. "Robotics as a Powerful Vehicle Toward Learning and Computational Thinking in Secondary Education of 21st Century." Handbook of Research on Using Educational Robotics to Facilitate Student Learning, edited by Stamatios Papadakis and Michail Kalogiannakis, IGI Global, 2021, pp. 1-40. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6717-3.ch001

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Glezou, K. V. (2021). Robotics as a Powerful Vehicle Toward Learning and Computational Thinking in Secondary Education of 21st Century. In S. Papadakis & M. Kalogiannakis (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Using Educational Robotics to Facilitate Student Learning (pp. 1-40). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6717-3.ch001

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Glezou, Katerina V. "Robotics as a Powerful Vehicle Toward Learning and Computational Thinking in Secondary Education of 21st Century." In Handbook of Research on Using Educational Robotics to Facilitate Student Learning, edited by Stamatios Papadakis and Michail Kalogiannakis, 1-40. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6717-3.ch001

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the design and implementation of robotics activities in authentic classroom conditions in secondary education. It suggests that robotics can provide a powerful educational vehicle for guiding high school students toward learning in 21st century. It presents a constructionist approach to foster computational thinking and creativity by engaging in robotics and programming activities in real-world classroom. More specifically, this chapter presents teaching interventions that have been implemented in real conditions to high school students during robotics courses at Arsakeia Schools Psychikou in Athens, Greece. It describes robotics activities employing the Edison educational robotics system. Main features of teaching interventions concerning the utilization of Edison robot, digital learning environments, and unplugged activities in the classroom focused on 21st century skills, computational thinking, and creativity development as well as findings, solutions, recommendations, and future research directions are discussed.

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