• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.293-302
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• 2008

Since 2008, it has been stipulated to conduct programming education for grade 5 and 6 elementary school student. However, it is the reality that the plans and studies for this are seriously lacking until now. The objective of this study is to propose a programming education utilizing robots as a plan to overcome limitations of existing programming education, find the problems through developing and applying education program for general elementary school students. As a result of experimental application of the developed program, since the gap of academic accomplishment for the robot programming is large for each student, it is necessary to develop education program to enable individual studies of each level and operate program with the focus on programming education rather than the robot. Moreover, it is pointed that the difficult and unnecessary elements in the robot programming course must be improved or reduced, it is better to exercise it on the grade 6 program for concentration on the programming education, and there should be improvement on equipment, environment for robot programming.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.19-27
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• 2007

To help programming learning, we have designed a robot programming course that improves complex cognitive abilities. The developed course was implemented in college programming classes and educational effects were analysed. While students are learning through LEGO Mindstorms NXT and NXT-G software, the students' problem solving abilities have been enhanced. The developed robot programming course gives positive effects on learners' problem solving abilities. It means that the developed course helps a learner in a cognitive domain.

• 한국정보교육학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.01a
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• pp.15-22
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• 2011

Most of the robot programming curriculums consists mainly of understanding robot programming language and learning a simple grammatical sentences rather than logical problem solving process, these curriculums impose a burden on childrens' learning. Storytelling offers opportunities for continuation of childrens' positive learning motivation to practice symbolic manipulations, hold multiple abstract concepts in their heads, and create meaning between these ideas. In this paper, to overcome the difficulty of robot programming curriculum in elementary school and find teaching method which derives the childrens' motivation, we used storytelling in study of our robot programming curriculum.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.231-241
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• 2007

With a focus on LabView language to program Lego Mindstoms Robot in afterschool class to help children develop their special ability and aptitude. The purpose of this research was to make proposal for programming learning method using a robot as an algorithm learning tool to improve creative problem solving ability. To do this, robot programming training program in the amount of 30th period and teaching aids thereof were developed, and 6th grade primary school children were taught up to 30th period, then after, they were evaluated accordingly. Results from analysis of evaluation of achievement level with a focus on outcomes according to each period revealed that learners understood most of contents of curriculum. In view of such results from evaluation, it is judged that the curriculum as well as teaching aids that devised and created have been constituted in order that school children will be able to have developed a shared understanding of their learning sufficiently, and to put it into practice easily. Through these hands-on experiences in the course of researches, researcher could have confirmed the possibility of success for robot-programming training class as new creative algorithm learning tool in the primary school curriculum.

• 한국정보교육학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.01a
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• pp.148-153
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• 2008

지식 기반 사회에서는 논리적인 사고를 통해 외부의 자극에서 새로운 가치를 창조하고 스스로 지식을 형성하는 능력이 필요하다. 그리고 컴퓨터 교육의 목적은 기능의 습득이 아니라 습득한 기능을 유기적으로 이용하여 주어진 문제를 해결하는 논리적 사고력의 향상에 있다. 따라서 논리적 사고력을 기를 수 있는 프로그래밍 교육을 학생들에게 지도하여야 한다. 본 연구에서 논 프로그래밍 입문기 학습자들이 갖는 어려움, 즉 프로그래밍 언어의 단어와 문법 암기 따른 부담을 덜고 프로그래밍 학습이 갖는 논리적 알고리즘 탐구에 집중하고자 기존의 구문 중심 프로그래밍 언어가 아닌 아이콘 기반의 비주얼 프로그래밍 도구를 제시한다. 그리고 기존의 프로그래밍 학습에서 아동들이 추상적으로 해 왔던 프로그래밍 과정을 로봇을 이용하여 구체적이고 실험적인 학습을 하도록 하며 아울러 일반 학급에서 적용할 수 있는 로봇 활용 프로그래밍 교육 프로그램을 구상하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.33-40
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• 2015

This paper presents the design and implementation of the educational remote controlled robot system including remote sensing in the embedded environment. The design of sensing information processing, software design and template design mechanism for the programming practice are introduced. LPC1769 using Cortex-M3 core as CPU, LPCXPRESSO as debugging environment, C language as firmware development language and FreeRTOS as OS are used in development environment. The control command is received via RF communication by the server and the robot system which is operated by driving the various sensors. The educational procedure is from robot demo operation program as hands-on practice and then compiling, loading of the basic robot operation program, already supplied. Thereafter the verification is checked by using the basic robot operation to allow demo operation such as hands-on-training procedure. The original protocol is designed via RF communication between server and robot system, and the satisfied performance result is presented by analyzing the robot sensing data processing.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.265-273
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• 2012

Current computer education is moving its focus from using oriented education to improving students' creativity and problem solving ability by computer science education. Robot programming education is becoming a major research issue of computer education in the context of creativity education. One of the mainstream ideas of prior research about robot programming is the effect of robot programming. Another is curriculum development of robot programming. But, the focus of current research is moving toward teaching methods of robot programming. The theme of this research is to use examples in robot programming. Example programs are considered the most useful type of material both by the students and the teachers. Example programs play a important role in learning to program. They work as templates, guidelines, and hints for learners when developing their own programs. In this study, I developed a example-based robot programming support system. Due to the trends of smart learning, I developed this system as a mobile web application.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.18A no.5
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• pp.165-176
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• 2011

In this paper, we show how a curriculum using LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robot based ROBOTC for undergraduate students has been developed, and we analyze the educational effect of the curriculum. The curriculum is composed of basic knowledge learning, practice with basic robots, practice with advanced robots, and creative design and implementation of robots. During the three year period since 2009, educational achievement has been analyzed by surveys for 6 classes, 94 students. According to the analysis, the curriculum has highly motivated the students and made them to achieve effectively our educational and academic goals. Also, we observe that the curriculum helped the students to improve their creativity and the problem solving skill, and that the students were autonomously and deeply involved in the homework and the term projects, which made them be very cooperative. Finally, the intensive practice with ROBOTC programming is shown to help students to improve their programming ability of C language.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.13-23
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• 2010

The revised 7th education course of information implies that students use variety of information devices to solve the common problems and it also includes the programming education for improving problem-solving abilities. Not only improving problem-solving abilities but also developing thinking skill is expected in programming education. However, traditional programming education is teacher-oriented and focused on language syntax. Accordingly, students have heavy cognitive load and it decrease students' interest of programming. Therefore, in this paper, a instructional method of programming using educational robot is proposed to improve interest of elementary students in concretive operation stage for effectiveness of programming education. Additionally, results of experiments show that proposed robot programming instructional method can be applied in elementary education.

• 한국정보교육학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.01a
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• pp.23-28
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• 2011

It is possible to solve many structural problems such as the occurrence of a lot of errors involving misspelling which may occur during the learning of existing programming language, difficulty in grammatical expression and understanding, and difficulty in the expression of algorithm if the program learning tool of the department of computer education in a college of education is utilized as an educational robot. This study developed a learning model (curriculum and a textbook) so that students who major in computer education may easily learn programming by using the NXT software of a Mindstorms robot.