Making to engineering: toward a personalized engineering robotics playground
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Rina Zviel-Girshin
Abstract
Using educational robotics playgrounds at different stages of development, children could evolve from the most basic making skills (MSs) to developing very sophisticated MS, which become part and parcel and one of the drivers of developing engineering skills (ESs). This process could, and should, start as soon as possible. The newborn instinctively starts to try/play/make, sharpening its MS, and in the process develops all its mental and physical strengths, including those that will become the beginnings of its ES. Creating a special engineering robotics playground can improve these processes both qualitatively and quantitatively while establishing the vital creative link between making and engineering (MS and ES) and internalizing best making and engineering practices.
Abstract
Using educational robotics playgrounds at different stages of development, children could evolve from the most basic making skills (MSs) to developing very sophisticated MS, which become part and parcel and one of the drivers of developing engineering skills (ESs). This process could, and should, start as soon as possible. The newborn instinctively starts to try/play/make, sharpening its MS, and in the process develops all its mental and physical strengths, including those that will become the beginnings of its ES. Creating a special engineering robotics playground can improve these processes both qualitatively and quantitatively while establishing the vital creative link between making and engineering (MS and ES) and internalizing best making and engineering practices.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Contents IX
- Maker education and educational robotics in the age of artificial intelligence 1
- Making to engineering: toward a personalized engineering robotics playground 9
- Maker movement and educational robotics in Brazil: from legislation to emerging practices in the school environment 45
- Robotics and computational language in the school setting: a review of research 59
- The use of psychological measurements in research on educational robotics 85
- Promoting social communication skills in autism spectrum disorder through robotics and virtual worlds 95
- Robots for autism-specific education: opportunities and barriers to the use of technical devices 119
- Proposal for intervention with intelligent educational robots in primary education students after the analysis of their pedagogical possibilities 131
- New realities in the education field? Keys to understanding the role of intelligent educational robots 149
- Intelligent Educational Robots in Early Childhood Education: Building the Future 169
- Interactivity of smart educational robots 199
- Exploring the use of chatbots in English language learning among higher education students in Israel 213
- Model of a teacher from the standpoint of ethics in education using artificial intelligence 233
- The AI-enhanced DIY robotic car: introducing the five big ideas of AI 245
- List of contributors 263
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Contents IX
- Maker education and educational robotics in the age of artificial intelligence 1
- Making to engineering: toward a personalized engineering robotics playground 9
- Maker movement and educational robotics in Brazil: from legislation to emerging practices in the school environment 45
- Robotics and computational language in the school setting: a review of research 59
- The use of psychological measurements in research on educational robotics 85
- Promoting social communication skills in autism spectrum disorder through robotics and virtual worlds 95
- Robots for autism-specific education: opportunities and barriers to the use of technical devices 119
- Proposal for intervention with intelligent educational robots in primary education students after the analysis of their pedagogical possibilities 131
- New realities in the education field? Keys to understanding the role of intelligent educational robots 149
- Intelligent Educational Robots in Early Childhood Education: Building the Future 169
- Interactivity of smart educational robots 199
- Exploring the use of chatbots in English language learning among higher education students in Israel 213
- Model of a teacher from the standpoint of ethics in education using artificial intelligence 233
- The AI-enhanced DIY robotic car: introducing the five big ideas of AI 245
- List of contributors 263
