Educational Technology

February 7, 2017

Can robotics teach problem solving to students?

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:40 am

BY BETH BRUBAKER, eSchool News

My teaching experience has taught me that it is no longer possible to prepare students with the 21st century skills they will need for the workforce without moving away from this paint-by-numbers approach. Instead, teachers must develop curriculum that inspires students to not only find new solutions, but to also test their solutions, and improve on them, through trial and error. This can be done using hands-on learning tools like robotics, which intuitively teaches students how to problem solve using critical thinking. The question is: how can teachers create a robotics curriculum that not only breaks students out of the “worksheet generation” mentality, but also shows them the possibilities of learning with trial and error? Here are four tips for teaching students how to problem solve using hands-on robotics as a tool:

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2017/01/20/robotics-teach-problem-solving/

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