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The Engagement of Students When Learning to Use a Personal Audio Classifier to Control Robot Cars in a Computational Thinking Board Game
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Hsu, Ting-Chia; Chen, Mu-Sheng – Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2022
This research explored the creative thinking, learning achievement, and engagement of students when they integrated the application of the personal audio classifier (PAC) into the competition of a computational thinking (CT) board game (i.e., the experimental group), or did not integrate it into the competition but only collaborated with peers to…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Robotics, Games, Computation
Integrating Computational Thinking into Technology and Engineering Education
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Hacker, Michael – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2018
Computational Thinking (CT) is being promoted as "a fundamental skill used by everyone in the world by the middle of the 21st Century" (Wing, 2006). CT has been effectively integrated into history, ELA, mathematics, art, and science courses (Settle, et al., 2012). However, there has been no analogous effort to integrate CT into…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Thinking Skills, Technology Education, Engineering Education
Science and Technology Education: Current Challenges and Possible Solutions. Proceedings of the International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education (BalticSTE2019) (3rd, Šiauliai, Lithuania, June 17-20, 2019)
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Lamanauskas, Vincentas, Ed. – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2019
These proceedings contain papers of the 3rd International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education (BalticSTE2019) held in Šiauliai, Lithuania, June 17-19, 2019. This symposium was organized by the Scientific Methodical Center "Scientia Educologica" in cooperation with the Institute of Education, Šiauliai University. The…
Descriptors: Science Education, Technology Education, Formative Evaluation, Chemistry
Ordered Effects of Technology Education Units on Higher-Order Critical Thinking Skills of Middle School Students
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Mojica, Kern D. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
In this quasi-experimental quantitative study, 105 eighth grade students at a suburban middle school in New York State participated in a seven month-long project involving the ordered effects of the technology education units of Lego[R] Mindstorms(TM) NXT Robotics System, Digital Storytelling with Microsoft Windows Movie Maker, and the Marble Maze…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Critical Thinking
LEGO Robotics: An Authentic Problem Solving Tool?
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Castledine, Alanah-Rei; Chalmers, Chris – Design and Technology Education, 2011
With the current curriculum focus on correlating classroom problem solving lessons to real-world contexts, are LEGO robotics an effective problem solving tool? This present study was designed to investigate this question and to ascertain what problem solving strategies primary students engaged with when working with LEGO robotics and whether the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Solving, Grade 6, Relevance (Education)
Classroom Challenge: Designing a Firefighting Robot
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Roman, Harry T. – Technology Teacher, 2007
Robots provide teachers with opportunities to teach multidimensional thinking and critical thinking skills. In this article, the author presents a classroom activity wherein students are required to design a firefighting robot. This activity aims to demonstrate the complexity and interdisciplinary nature of the robotics technology.
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Robotics, Thinking Skills, Class Activities