NDLI: Teaching (with) robots in secondary schools: some new and not-so-new pedagogical problems

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Dagdilelis, V. Sartatzemi, M. Kagani, K.
Copyright Year	2005
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Educ. & Social Policy, Macedonia Univ., Thessaloniki, Greece (Dagdilelis, V.)
Abstract	Research on the teaching of programming has shown that novice programmers often come up against significant difficulties in understanding programming concepts as well as in finding solutions to even elementary programming problems. One of the basic strategies which has been adopted in order to confront this problem, were programming languages and environments created with the specific aim to make both the teaching and learning processes of programming easier. A typical category of these types of environments consists of systems where the novice programmer manipulates real entities such as robots and automatic mechanisms. In this research we present a series of pilot lessons for an introduction to programming with the help of Lego Mindstorms and the visual programming environment ROBOLAB. The research was carried out on Greek secondary school students in the 9th and 10th grades. We present the initial results, which clearly show the advantages of this environment over the standard ones conventionally used, as well as some problems.
Starting Page	757
Ending Page	761
File Size	91852
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769523382
DOI	10.1109/ICALT.2005.255
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2005-07-05
Publisher Place	Taiwan
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Education Educational robots Programming profession Robot programming Computer languages Robotics and automation Programming environments Educational institutions Toy manufacturing industry Informatics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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