• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.341-351
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• 2006

Robot education is the learning instrument suitable for the logical thinking and problem solving ability of students, but in the elementary school, research data for curriculum, teaching material developing, and special teacher for the purpose of efficient robot education is rare. So this study investigated and researched on the educational use of robot as the instrument for enhancement of the logical ability and the problem solving ability of elementary school students. In order to introduce contents related to robot in the elementary, I investigated and analyzed what is discussed. I analyzed their opinions for the efficient robot education of the elementary school student through the questionary survey of the elementary school teacher in charge of robot education in the discretion activity class. and I suggested the condition of robot, proper contents, the form of robot, and teaching & learning method suitable for introduction in the elementary school curriculum based on analyzed contents.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.35-44
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• 2010

Robots have been recognized as effective tools to promote high level thinking such as creativeness and problem solving that are crucial in Intelligence & Information era. However, robot education in Korea is more concerned with assembling, traveling and programing, while robot education in foreign countries are incorporated with educational courses, being utilized in various ways. Essentially, robot is a multifunctioning device of planning, assembling, operation and problem solving. As it is able to provide practical educational experience, it will positively influence in motivation and accomplishment if being incorporated with educational courses. Therefore, this study compared domestic and foreign robot education cases, while establishing the framework of course incorporated robot education based on analysis of robot mechanism, the 7th curriculum and its activities. We developed robot utilizing educational program by each grade and subject. In addition, this program is reviewed by experts to verify its adequateness, reality and usefulness based on which it was revised and supplemented.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.514-525
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• 2014

We have performed a short-term computer information and communication technology education using Arduino. The purpose of this education was to progress basic training interestingly and discover excellent students. Training was about practicing basic examples about H/W, S/W, communication, and solving creative tasks. We divided training participants into a team composed of each 3 members and educated them for 10 hours. Instructors were consists of 1 main teacher and 3 teacher assistants. Training was about assembling Arduino based robot, blinking LED, operating speaker, serial communication, producing software for wireless communications and autonomous of robot, and control hardware of robot. Through this study, we developed a meaningful ICT integrated curriculum which has high usefulness in a short period. Students participated in this education completed 96% out of 10 creative tasks, and this study analyzes the result of curriculum and suggests further research directions.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.195-202
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• 2008

The programming learning by using a robot may be one of the most appropriate learning methods for enabling students to experience the creative learning of future society by avoiding the existing stereotyped style educational environment, and understand and improve algorithm which is the basic fundamental of mathematics and science. This study proposed four types of items of errors which may occur during robot programming by elementary school students, and made elementary school students in the fifth and sixth grades learn robot programming after developing the curriculum for the robot programming. Then, the study collected and classified errors that had occurred during the process of learning, and conducted a comparative analysis of computer-based programming language which had been previously studied. This study identified that robot programming in elementary school was shown superior to existing computer-based programming language as a creative learning method and tool through the field experience.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.29-35
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• 2016

The conventional educational robots, which are commonly industrial robots or toy robots, use text-based programming to teach the students. Therefore, students have difficulty in studying robotics due to the difficulties of text based language. The developed robot in this study have a camera, which have the color tracking function, and it has various sensors and actuators. It supports the open hardware and uses graphic language based programming. The developed educational robot is programmed by Scratch, which uses graphic modular language. We also present a curriculum, which is based upon the developed robot and Scratch. We applied the robot and curriculum to the primary school students. We obtained satisfactory results comparing it with the conventional robot education. Furthermore, the imagination and execution ability of students showed enhancement in learning robotics. Thus, this fact means the validity and effectiveness of the proposed approach.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.101-109
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• 2011

Generally, learning tools like robots are being mainly used as teaching aids to enhance creativity of a group of students who are superior in their studies and have an excellent potential in private education. This study uses a relatively cheap line tracer as a teaching aid and connects it with regular subjects so that elementary school higher graders showing academic achievement lower than average can get robot learning. This research developed a line tracer learning curriculum and teaching materials for total 12 sessions and taught students showing academic achievement below average and evaluated them after. According to the result of evaluating their achievement levels based on their results of learning in each session, most of the students with low academic achievement was evaluated to understand most of the contents in the curriculum fully. Through its empirical implementation, this paper has found the possibilities of robot education connected with the regular curriculum for elementary students exhibiting relatively lower academic achievement.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.79-85
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• 2019

This study examined the effects of a robotics curriculum based on "Bee-Bot" on the scientific problem-solving ability on 5-year-old children. A robotics curriculum was also designed to enhance their scientific problem-solving ability. This study examined a 4-week robotics curriculum was conducted 12 times for 4 weeks. For this study, 14 children in kindergarten A in Korea were set up as a treatment group and 18 children in kindergarten B in Korea as a control group. It was found that children in the treatment group who engaged in the robotics curriculum using "Bee-Bot" performed better on scientific problem-solving tests. This finding indicates that an enhanced planning experience using "Bee-Bot" was beneficial for improving young children's scientific problem-solving ability. The implications for designing appropriate curricula using "Bee-Bot" robots for kindergarteners are addressed.

• 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.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.8-17
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• 2016

Scratch-based programming has come to be known as an effective programming tool because of its graphic instruction modules, which are designed to be assembled like the famous LEGO building blocks. These building block-like structures allow users to more easily program applications without using other more difficult programming languages such as C or Java, which are text-based. Therefore, it poses a good opportunity for application in educational settings, especially in primary schools. This paper presents an effective approach to developing an educational robot for use in elementary schools. Furthermore, we present the method for scratch programming based on the external modules need for the implementation of robot motion. Lastly, we design a systematic curriculum, titled "Play with a Robot," and propose guidelines to using the educational programming language Scratch.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.155-158
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 초등학교 정규교육과정에서 다루고 있는 로봇교육으로서 2011년 고시 초등학교 교육과정의 실과 교육과정 5-6학년의 (생활과 전기, 전자) 단원에서의 로봇교육과 교사 로봇 연구대회에서 발표한 로봇교육 지도안의 몇 가지 사례들을 살펴보고, 초등학교 교육과정에서 로봇교육이 어떠한 가치를 지니고, 어떠한 방향으로 이루어져야 하는지에 대한 프레임을 제공하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 위에서 언급한 사례들은 로봇의 작동 원리와 센서 등 공학적 측면을 강조하고 있다. 하지만 이것은 로봇교육이 지니는 다양한 장점 중 극히 일부분에 지나지 않는다. 주어진 매뉴얼을 통하여 수행되는 최소한의 공학적 이해 수준을 가리키는 것을 넘어 문제해결 및 알고리즘을 수행할 수 있는 물리적 객체로서의 인식의 전환이 필요하다. 또한 로봇이 정규교육과정 속에서 수행되기 어려운 한계점을 제시하고 이를 극복하기 위한 방안을 모색해보고자 한다.