Designing and building robot costumes supported students' learning about robot structure and factors affecting precise motion¶
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q2 i? Through designing, constructing, testing, and refining costumes, students encountered design constraints from the robot's structure and motion and iteratively refined their designs. → G. McLaughlin 2026
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G. McLaughlin 2026¶
G. McLaughlin, E. Novak, S. Ahmadi, J. Li, Y. Guo, R. Liu, & L. Borgerding. (2026). Pathways to learning: exploring high school students' learning of AI-powered educational robotics. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-026-10651-w
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Qualitative theme 2 from design journals, field notes, and presentations. Mike found his SpongeBob costume sat on the wheels and was too heavy, then cut paper around the wheels and swapped tape and glue for lighter hot glue; Luna speculated costume weight affected 90-degree turns.
"the process of designing and building costumes for robots facilitated students' exploration of robot structure and factors affecting precise robot motion."
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Related Claims¶
- Embodied collaborative construction can build shared geometric reasoning — related
- High school students in a project-based robotics + AI curriculum developed robotics understanding by troubleshooting hardware and operational factors of physical robots — related
- Problem decomposition, artifact creation, data practices, and testing/debugging appear in all 28 reviewed CT manuscripts, while iterative refinement appears in 17 — a broader claim this one bears on
- Rapid AI generation may compress exploratory learning processes and reduce encounters with failure and material constraints — related
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Designing and building robot costumes supported students' learning about robot structure and factors affecting precise motion |
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Designing and building robot costumes supported students' learning about robot structure and factors affecting precise motion |
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