Paper Info
Title
Arts & Bots: Application and outcomes of a secondary school robotics program
Abstract
Arts & Bots combines intrinsically creative craft materials, common robotics components, a custom programming environment and teacher professional development to create a flexible robotics intervention for secondary school classrooms. In order to engage students underserved by other robotics programs, Arts & Bots is oriented to support the creation of collaborative expression-focused robots, as opposed to more commonly implemented competitive task-focused robot activities. Specifically, Arts & Bots targets integration into traditional nontechnical classes, such as literature and history, to reach a broader base of students than would be enrolled in elective technology programs. This paper describes three classroom implementations, including a secondary school poetry project. By including Arts & Bots in these core courses, we expose diverse students to engineering education activities such as hands-on experiences with computer programming, prototyping, and the engineering design process. We present our outcomes grouped within two primary themes: first, in Technological Fluency, we present students' self-reporting of concepts learned, confidence with technology, and breaking of technology stereotypes; second, in Complementary Non-Technical Skills, we present other skills students learned by participating in the Arts & Bots program.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/FIE.2015.7344375
FIE
Keywords
Field
DocType
educational robotics,interdisciplinary education,technological fluency,secondary school engineering
Craft,Computer science,Engineering education,Implementation,Pedagogy,Artificial intelligence,Robotics,Engineering management,Professional development,Mathematics education,The arts,Educational robotics,Robot
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0190-5848
5
1.08
References 
Authors
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jennifer Cross1205.48
Emily Hamner210519.63
Christopher P. Bartley3153.08
Illah Nourbakhsh42464294.80