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Model Robot Programming subject: constructivist project-based lessons with LEGO NXT robots in small groups

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Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 1 study (1 causal), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description

A semester-long subject in which only about twenty percent of lessons use traditional teacher explanation and presentation; new material is introduced by examples, and students then "solve programming problems and tasks in groups of two-three members". The central activity is a group project to write an algorithm and program and build a robot controlled by that program, with documentation, video and slides presented to classmates and evaluated by teachers, other students and group members.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Real programmable devices (LEGO NXT robots)
  • group work of two-three members
  • teacher acting as facilitator rather than transferring knowledge

Constraints

  • Traditional teaching methods are still retained for about twenty percent of the total lessons

Target Learners

  • college IT students who meet programming first at higher education

Learning Goals

  • basic programming structures
  • problem solving
  • collaborative knowledge building

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Attila PÁSZTOR, Róbert PAP-SZIGETI, Erika LAKATOS TÖRÖK. (2010). Effects of Using Model Robots in the Education of Programming. Informatics in Education, 9(1), 133–140. https://doi.org/10.15388/infedu.2010.09
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title Model Robot Programming subject: constructivist project-based lessons with LEGO NXT robots in small groups
description A semester-long subject in which only about twenty percent of lessons use traditional teacher explanation and presentation; new material is introduced by examples, and students then "solve programming problems and tas...
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