• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.595-600
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• 2019

Educational tools for infants and younger students are becoming smarter as ICT-based digital technology convergence extends according to the development of technology. As the digital interaction function of smart education tools gives students greater immersion and fun, a learning might become a play to the students. The technologies used in the implementation of smart education tools come from the disciplines of robotics, computer engineering, programming, and engineering and mathematical foundations and these can be integrated into the field of education itself. This paper designs and implements a product based on optimized physical computing for R&D and education in consideration of the characteristics of educational tool robots used in the field education. It was developed to enable physical education for sensing information processing, software design and programming practice training that is the basis of robot system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2014.01a
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• pp.241-242
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 학습자의 스마트기기 인식 변화를 위한 로봇 프로그래밍 수업 단계 및 인식에 대한 설문 도구를 제안한다. 폭발적으로 증가하는 스마트기기 사용 환경에 노출된 어린 학습자에게 스마트기기의 올바른 활용을 위한 인식을 심어줌으로써, 스마트기기의 올바른 활용 방안을 인식할 수 있도록 한다. 또한 스마트기기의 다양한 기능을 활용한 로봇을 조립하고 프로그래밍을 작성해 봄으로써, 스마트기기에 대한 인식의 긍정적인 변화를 기대한다. 학습자의 스마트기기에 대한 인식은 스마트기기 활용 로봇 프로그래밍 수업의 사전, 사후 검사를 통해 인식의 변화를 측정한다. 특히 학습자가 수업 후 자신의 생각이 바뀐 이유를 기술함으로써, 로봇 프로그래밍 수업을 활용한 인식 변화의 요인을 파악하는데 기초 자료로 사용될 것이다.

• 대한공업교육학회지
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.120-136
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• 2008

Using the tangible programming tools, which combines physical objects (e.g. robot) and educational programming language, may help to encourage learners' creative thinking as well as to enhance problem solving ability. That is, learners can have opportunities to simulate problem solving processes through the physical objects, such as robots. Therefore, they can minimize an fixation about problem solving process. These experience is effective to induce creative thinking that is useful to find new solutions and change environment actively. Therefore, we developed a robot based programming teaching and learning curriculum and implemented it in college level introductory programming courses. The result shows that the robot based programming learning has a positive effect in all three factors of learners' creative problem solving potential, especially in a cognitive factor. The cognitive factor includes general problem solving abilities as well as factors that explain creativity, such as divergent thinking, problem recognition, problem representation. These result means that the developed robot based programming teaching and learning curriculum give positive effect to creative problem solving abilities.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.209-218
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• 2010

Robot Curriculum based education in Insects Robot help elementary school students better understand how a robot works. This robot curriculum is aimed at elementary school students in fifth grade. This study progressed with LEGO(R) MINDSTORMS(R) NXT, departed 6 groups, reached the insect's movement, designed robot like insects. This curriculum enhanced discussion prowess and improved the ability of building robot. During this study, most of the students were attracted to the action of the robot-like insect's movement.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.61-73
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• 2011

The analysis on learners made through the study focuses on the intention of the participants in the learning activities of the robot programming. Therefore, for the analysis of the learners' intention, which is tried in the study, TAM, the analysis tool used for understanding buying acts or buying intention of buyers in the business sector, is basically utilized, and the Flow theory is additionally applied, trying to know, through the quantum analysis methods, the factors to give influence on the intention for learners to take part in the robot programming lesson. For this, a quantum analysis was made by PLS analysis, a kind of structural equations. As the result of the analysis, it is confirmed that such factors as 'recognized utility' and 'recognized readiness' and 'Flow' give significant influence on the intention of learners' participation in the lesson. As the result of the synthetic analysis and in regard with the value of the programming lesson, it is found that the following factors give actual influence to the intention of learners: the group where learners belong or teaching-learning organizations together with creating social rapport, learning tasks given for learners, etc.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.329-337
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• 2013

Introductory programming course using robots that makes good effect to learners. I investigated that the effects on flow at using robots of introductory programming course. According to experiment result, the flow level showed significant change and all of it's element(antecedents, experiences, effects) had changed significantly. This result means that using robots of introductory programming course makes effect that is very positive in flow level of learners. There was strong interrelation by each element of flow in the result of correlation analysis about flow element. In particular, interrelation of antecedents element and experience element was high. Therefore, using robot is precondition of flow, and the level of experience element is high according to level of antecedents, and also experience element elevate the learner's intrinsic satisfaction. The conclusion is that using robots of introductory programming course is helpful enhancing learner's flow level and is positive in study achievements.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.147-153
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• 2019

Recently, the perception of software education, which had been considered as a field of education for programmers in this field, is changing in response to recent changes with the trend of 4th industrial revolution. Major counties competitively invest in software education and the target age group for software education is also on the decline. However, the traditional text-based programing languages such as JAVA and Python, have a high entry barrier. To address the shortcoming, a variety of methods have been recently proposed for the effective software education for kindergarten and elementary school student. In this paper, we propose a robot-based coding education system with steps for coding education for effective software education. The proposed method is divided into three stages, depending on the level of the student being trained in the software coding education to interact with robots. The proposed stages consists of unplugged coding using a remote control, coding using a graphic-based programming language and text- based coding. We conducted an experiment with performing separate missions while providing propoer tutorials for each stage to verify the effectiveness of the proposed software education system.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.145-146
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• 2008

LEGO Mindstorms NXT is a powerful robot programming target. It has ARM7, sensor and motor ports, and bluetooth support. and G-Code, C-Based, JAVA programming support, too. In this paper, we introduce the effectiveness of NXT via computer science education at college and university.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.312-319
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• 2023

This study aims to enhance the engineering education for non-majors by incorporating the concept of Global Citizenship Education and addressing the need for education that responds to climate and ecological changes. The study uses robot programming as a tool to foster the development of global citizens. Non-majors often struggle with producing more than just motionless forms or solid productions, due to a lack of understanding of mechanisms and coding. The study proposes the use of the Convergence D-SteamRobot (DSR) to address this issue by blending humanities and engineering. This is achieved by presenting problems through books to increase empathy, integrating simple machine mechanisms, and creating prototypes to solve self-defined problems. Through this process, learners determine the SDGs topic they want to solve and learn about the simple mechanical mechanism involved in producing the prototype. The educational model provides a constructivist learning environment that emphasizes empathy and exploration, encourages peer-learning, and improves divergent thinking and problem-solving skills.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.71-80
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• 2010

A lot of studies in and outside the country says that robots can become an effective tool in developing creativity, problem solving skills and positive learning motivation in the knowledge and information era. This study aims to verify the educational effect of robots in mathematics education by applying robots to mathematics education as a learning tool in an effort to improve the teaching/learning environment. For this study, the mathematics curriculum of elementary school and robot programming were analyzed and then a robot integrated mathematics program was developed. The developed program was applied to the mathematics education of an elementary school year 5 over 16 times. The result of the study showed that the experimental group which used the robot integrated program has better learning attitude and problem solving skills than the group which used the traditional method. The result also showed that the mathematics activities that used robot programming contributed to developing problem solving skills and provided positive mathematics learning experience.