• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.276-281
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• 2015

Engineers increasingly rely on computers and their computer programming skills for their works. As a result, most engineering curricula have introduced a computer programming courses. However, students consider the subject to be unrelated to their core interests and often feel uncomfortable when learning to program for the first time. To overcome these difficulties, several studies have proposed the use of physical computing paradigm. This paradigm takes the computational concepts out of the PC screen and into the real world so that the student can interact with them. This paper proposes Arduino platform as a tool for attracting interest of the programming and reports the results of questionnaire survey analysis.

• Proceedings of The KACE
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• 2017.08a
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• pp.15-18
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• 2017

SW교육이 활성화되어 많은 SW교육용 교구들과 교안들이 출시되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 기존 SW교구들이 가지는 특성들을 STEAM 교육 요소에 근거하여 필요 요소들을 분석한다. 이를 통해 피지컬 컴퓨팅을 활용한 SW교육용 교구가 가져야할 기능을 제시하고, SW 교육 현장에 있어서 STEAM형 SW교구 선정에 활용할 수 있도록 한다.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.409-420
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• 2016

In the digital age, children can express their ideas in both physical and digital environments. Electronic textile or e-textiles with Lilypad Arduino provides children with opportunities to explore design ideas and to realize their imagination into physical artefacts. This study aims to analyze the nature of activities and perceptions among 16 children in fifth and sixth grade in a primary school in Seoul who participated in the 12-week e-textile project. To this end, two teachers who taught the class evaluated student-created artefacts from technical, critical, creative and ethical perspectives, and interviewed seven students to extract concrete experiences. The contribution of this study is that it offers a case study of how e-textile programs integrating arts and technology can be implemented in primary school settings and provides implications for future research directions.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.3-11
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• 2019

To evaluate the suitability of UML (Unified Modelling Language) in terms of educating novice software engineers, we have conducted a survey study with 102 students who were enrolled in a mandatory course for sophomores in computer science and engineering department. The results indicate that UML 1) has high satisfaction rate among software novices as an education material, 2) improves computational thinking and problem-solving skills, and 3) increases the efficacy of learning when the education program is implemented in the order of UML, programming practice, and physical computing. This paper suggests the applicability of UML as a new education paradigm in software education.

• Proceedings of The KACE
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• 2018.01a
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• pp.157-160
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• 2018

인공지능 기술의 발달과 함께, 4차 산업 혁명에 관한 사회적 논의가 이슈화됨에 따라 교육 학계도 변화의 목소리를 높이고 있다. 지식기반 사회에서 컴퓨터 활용 역량이 강조되면서, 코딩/소프트웨어 교육 등 테크놀로지 기반 교수학습이 교과목과 관계없이 주목받고 있다. 최근에는 오픈소스를 만드는 사람들에 대한 긍정적 인식이 생겨나면서부터, 그들을 메이커라 지칭하고 메이커를 양성하기 위한 운동이 확산되기 시작하였다. 학계에서도 이 운동을 수용하려고 시도하였으나, 관련 연구에서는 기존 테크놀로지 기반 교수학습과 구분되는 특성을 명백하게 보여주지 못했다. 본 연구는 메이커 교육의 시론적 연구로서, 이재호와 장준형(2017)이 제안한 메이킹 역량을 중심으로 이를 키워줄 수 있는 피지컬 컴퓨팅 교구를 조사하였고, 동시에 활용 가능성을 제안하였다. 초기에 제안된 교구의 활용방안은 현장 교사 3인의 전문가 검토를 받았으며, 그들이 제공한 조언을 참고하여 수정하였다. 보완된 활용방안은 메이킹 역량을 구성하는 분석역량, 설계역량, 구현역량으로 구분하여 제시하였다. 이를 통해 메이커 교육의 이론적 발전과 확산에 기여하고자 하였다.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.343-350
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• 2017

This current study employs multi-year design-based research to design and implement a course in teacher education in Korea. Specifically this paper reports our first attempt to work with 3 primary in-service teachers majoring in computer education. We have incorporated design thinking (DT) into the course design and investigated how primary teachers appreciate the role of DT and recognize the connection between teaching computational thinking and DT. This qualitative study reports the course design, its progression, reflections, and learning outcomes.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.165-172
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• 2017

Recently, many supports about the education linked with industrial field have been provided in technical specialized high schools. In order to keep pace with the global trend to emphasize software education and to move away from traditional grammar-based programming learning, various physical computing tools have been used in the education fields. For this study, we conducted a programming class using Raspberry Pi for technical high school students. In the class, students were instructed to produce actual results based on the knowledge they had learned. Project-based learning was used to help students create products and thus they performed tasks while discussing and collaborating on a team-by-team basis. In particular, self-regulation learning strategies were considered to provide effective project-based instruction. After the class, we interviewed the students' satisfaction with it. The results showed that the students' satisfaction was high, and the fellow teachers also had a lot of possibilities and expectations about the programming instruction and project-based learning using Raspberry Pi.

• Educational Technology International
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.55-74
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• 2013

The diversity of students is getting increased in the contemporary classroom. To deal with the diversity, differentiated instruction (DI) should be considered as a way of providing alternative approaches to content, process and product according to the students' readiness, interest, and learning needs. Teachers have problems and difficulties in supporting different student's needs. In fact, teachers need proven tools including framework, guidelines or computing systems to help to practice DI in real context. According to the activity theory, tools influence on how people act and think and even their social practice, playing a crucial role in mediating the activities with people. In DI practice, there are also some studies about physical and abstract tools, but they have been not widely utilized by teachers in real schools. It means that more innovative tool to promote DI might be required. Therefore, to design a better tool to mediate the DI activities with teacher, case studies were conducted. In order to elicit the design implications, two physical and two abstract tools for DI practice were analyzed as case studies. Through the analysis of the case studies, eight design implications better to facilitate DI practice were suggested. This study has implications in suggesting design guidelines for teachers' tools to facilitate their DI practice by analyzing case studies in DI practices for an innovative tool in the educational practice.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.166-170
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• 2010

To numerically calculate electromagnetic scattering from the electrical-large three-dimensional(3D) objects, the high-frequency approaches have been usually applied, but the accuracy and feasibility of these geometrical and physical optics(GO-PO) approaches, to some extent, are remained to be improved. In this paper, a new framework is developed for calculation of the near-field scattering field of an electrical-large 3D target by using a multilevel fast multipole algorithm(MLFMA) and generation of radar images by using a fast back-projection(FBP) algorithm. The MPI(Message Passing Interface) parallel computing is carried out to multiply the calculation efficiency greatly. Finally, a simple example of perfectly electrical conducting(PEC) patch and a canonical case of Fighting Falcon F-16 are presented.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.24 no.12
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• pp.209-216
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• 2019

In view of the educational effects and social changes of software education, equal opportunities for software education are needed regardless of general students and students with disabilities. However, studies on software education for general students have been actively conducted, but studies on software education for students with disabilities are insufficient. In this study, we developed a robot education software education program for students with developmental disabilities. Developing robot-enabled software education programs for students with developmental disabilities is meaningful in terms of expanding software education opportunities for all. In addition, the robot-based software education program is easy to motivate students with developmental disabilities with low task concentration, short-term memory, and low sociality. Significant changes will be made not only in terms of management capacity, but also in terms of self-efficacy and confidence.