COMPLETE BOOK: Trends and Good Practices in Research and Teaching
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01-2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36006/16184-09

Title of the book: Trends and Good Practices in Research and Teaching

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DOI of the book: https://doi.org/10.36006/16184

Educational robotics and computational thinking. A didactic experience of innovation at the university level

Cristóbal Ballesteros-Regaña, Pedro Román-Graván, Carlos Hervás-Gómez

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Abstract
Educational robotics has thrived in recent years and is now gaining increasing presence in educational centres around the world. Although it has been especially significant in stages of secondary education, numerous introductory experiences have begun to be developed in stages of early childhood and primary education. The experience presented in this chapter aims to initiate a research line of educational innovation that will be focused on the didactic integration of the following types of robots: mBot, Mouse Robot and Makey-Makey board.

Keywords
computational thinking, didactic experience, educational robotics, innovation, university teaching

Autores

  • Cristóbal Ballesteros-Regaña
  • University of Seville
  • Teacher, pedagogue and PhD in Educational Sciences from the University of Seville, where he carries out his teaching and research work (Didactics Research Group) in the area of Didactics and School Organisation (design, development and didactic evaluation of ICT media and teaching-learning processes) as a lecturer in the Department of Didactics and Educational Organisation.

  • Pedro Román-Graván
  • University of Seville
  • http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1646-9247
  • Teacher, pedagogue and PhD in Educational Sciences from the University of Seville, where he carries out his teaching and research work (Didactics Research Group) in the area of Didactics and School Organisation (design, development and didactic evaluation of media, ICT and older people) as a lecturer in the Department of Didactics and Educational Organisation.

  • Carlos Hervás-Gómez
  • University of Seville
  • http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0904-9041
  • Doctor in Pedagogy from the University of Seville. Lecturer at the University of Seville. Member of the Grupo de Investigación Didáctica (GID) and of the editorial committees of European Journal of Educational Research, International Journal of Educational Methodology, Journal of Research in Science, Mathematics and Technology Education andThe European Educational Researcher. Its lines of research focus on the integration of ICT in teaching and learning processes through active and innovative methodologies, focusing on educational robotics, 3D printing, ubiquitous and mobile learning, gamification, socrative.


How to cite
Román-Graván, P., Hervás-Gómez, C., Ballesteros-Regaña, C. (2019). Educational robotics and computational thinking. A didactic experience of innovation at the university level. En León-Urrutia, M., Vázquez Cano, E., Fair, N., López Meneses, E. (coords.) Trends and Good Practices in Research and Teaching. A Spanish-English Collaboration. Barcelona: Octaedro. https://doi.org/xxxxxxx-16184-09

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