Tesis y Tesistas 2020 - Postgrado - Fac. de Informática - UNLP

MAESTRÍA
TECNOLOGÍA INFORMÁTICA
APLICADA EN EDUCACIÓN
Mg. Paula Lucrecia Lencina
e-mail
paula.lencina@nexo.unnoba.edu.ar
english
Advisor
Dr. Claudia Cecilia Russo
Codirector
Dr. Laura Cristina De Giusti
Thesis defense date
September 17, 2020
SEDICI
http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/108304
Learning to program with the
Programmable Educational Robot
(PER). Case study: Introduction to
Imperative Programming, a subject
belonging to the UNNOBA computer
careers programs
Keywords: imperative programming; robot; educational strategies; teaching role; didactics; interface; desertion; inquiry.
Motivation
Analyzing the statistical data in UNNOBA, there is
marked difficulty in introducing students to imperative
programming.
This context makes clear the importance of imminent
intervention through innovative educational action.
The design of an interface for the Programmable
Educational Robot (PER) is then proposed to integrate it
and use it as a tool for the selected case study.
General objective:
Establish educational strategies concerning the
imperative paradigm of computer programming using
the PER as a tool, in the first year of careers of the IT
area of UNNOBA, during the 2018-2019 period.
Specific objectives:
• Study the strategies currently used for teaching
imperative programming at UNNOBA.
• Inquire about the application of robots as pedagogical
tools in Higher Education.
• Determine how a robot should be used to carry out
educational activities within the imperative paradigm
of computer programming.
• Establish how students could be motivated by using the PER.
• Design an interface for the use of the PER.
great potential to facilitate the most tangible and
concrete application of programming skills. Likewise,
the interface allowed establishing a different way of
bringing students closer to the contents and motivating
them, through the use of a robot, as long as, through
the intervention of the teacher, a design of motivating
and stimulating activities is achieved.
Finally, a series of educational strategies have been
established regarding the imperative paradigm of
computer programming at UNNOBA.
Future Research Lines
It is expected to advance in the design of the interface
incorporating new functionalities among which it is
hoped to be able to develop a version for smartphones;
as well as the possibility of connecting the interface
with more than one PER.
Continue with the research of the PER sensors, for
example working with sounds for blind people and
lights for deaf people.
Thesis contributions
When corroborating the hypotheses of the present
work, it was obtained that the use of robots has a
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