Designing Teacher Professional Development Workshops for Robotics Integration across Elementary and Secondary School Curriculum

This paper describes the design of a professional development workshop on integrating robotics at the elementary and secondary school curriculum. The workshop was designed to support STEM education through teacher education at the university and post-university level. Moreover, the workshop leverage...

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Published in:2015 International Conference on Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering pp. 215 - 216
Main Authors: Hong Zhou, Yuen, Timothy T., Popescu, Cristina, Guillen, Adrienne, Davis, Don G.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.04.2015
Subjects:
Computers
Conferences
Educational robotics
Educational technology
Robots
STEM education
teacher education
Training
Usability
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Summary:This paper describes the design of a professional development workshop on integrating robotics at the elementary and secondary school curriculum. The workshop was designed to support STEM education through teacher education at the university and post-university level. Moreover, the workshop leveraged the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and an interdisciplinary approach to engage teachers with robotics. The workshop's design and implementation highlights the affordances of an interdisciplinary approach for attracting a greater diversity of teachers across all content areas to provide students with educational robotics activities.
DOI:10.1109/LaTiCE.2015.21