TITLE:
Research on the Teaching Reform of Programming Courses Based on Robotics Education in High School
AUTHORS:
Xiulin Ma, Chenyu Fan, Sheng Li, Yujuan Jia
KEYWORDS:
Robotics Education, Program Design, Logical Thinking
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.11 No.11,
November
18,
2020
ABSTRACT: Programming is of great importance to the cultivation of computational
thinking and logical thinking ability. However, the programming course in the
middle school stage has been unpopular for years among most students. There are two reasons that contribute to
this phenomenon: First, teachers paid more attention to grammar teaching than
computational and logical thinking; second, students perceived that the content
of programming course was not important, and unrelated to actual situation, and not enthusiastic for programming course. Out of fear about debugging, students tend to have lower intention for getting good grades or attain programming skills. Under these
circumstances, this research introduced robot design and application into
programming courses for students in high school, using robot teaching as a
carrier, and integrating the cultivation of logical thinking into teaching.
Carrying out teaching practice and related research with robot education as the
carrier, this study succeeds in stimulating students’ sense of self-efficacy in the field of
programming, cultivating students’ logical thinking ability, scientific
research ability, and developing their scientific inquiry spirit.