Scratch as Driver to Foster Interests for STEM and Educational Robotics

Title:

Scratch as Driver to Foster Interests for STEM and Educational Robotics [Baixar]

Autores/as:

Plaza, Pedro and Sancristobal, Elio and Carro, German and Blázquez-Merino, Manuel and García-Loro, Félix and Muñoz, Mónica and Albert, Maria Jose and Moriñigo, Belén and Castro, Manuel

Índice de termos:

Tools;Hardware;Programming profession;Conferences;Robot sensing systems;Education;project-based learning;programming;robotics;STEM

Resumo:

Today, there are a multitude of initiatives that favor the learning of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) and educational robotics (ER). Thanks to the available means, it is very easy to access a wide variety of tools based on programmable hardware. Although there are many options, most of them either require a high economic investment or require a great deal of time for the development of educational activities. Through the results shown in this paper, the great potential of Scratch as a solution for students who are just starting out in the knowledge related to STEM and ER is shown. To show the usefulness of Scratch a course has been designed, which dedicates three modules to the use of Scratch. The three modules have different levels of difficulty for the students, a basic level of difficulty, another intermediate level of difficulty and a last module with an advanced degree of difficulty.

DOI:

10.1109/RITA.2019.2950130

Como citar:
Plaza, Pedro and Sancristobal, Elio and Carro, German and Blázquez-Merino, Manuel and García-Loro, Félix and Muñoz, Mónica and Albert, Maria Jose and Moriñigo, Belén and Castro, Manuel, "Scratch as Driver to Foster Interests for STEM and Educational Robotics" in IEEE Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologias del Aprendizaje, pp. 117-126, Nov. 2019. doi: 10.1109/RITA.2019.2950130