Share Paper: Is Educational Robotics for Everyone? - A case study of a 4th grade educational robotics unit

  1. Amy Eguchi, Bloomfield College, United States
  2. Lisbeth Uribe, The School at Columbia University, United States
Monday, March 5 11:50 AM-12:10 PM Capitol C

Abstract: This paper aims to present a case study of an educational robotics curriculum with 4th graders who had difficulty mastering the concepts presented in their 3rd grade educational robotics unit of study. In the previous year, the teachers struggled to trigger student interest in learning through inquiry. An inquiry-based learning approach to learning educational robotics was not as successful for this group of students as it had been in previous years. The students were more passive about their learning than in previous years. They seemed to prefer to follow a teacher-directed line of study, rather than creating their own projects. ...