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CocciBot: transforming the mBot pedagogical robot to be used from kindergarten to secondary school
Ali Messaoud et Margarida Romero @margaridaromero
Faculté des Sciences de l’ÉducationUniversité Laval
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#EDULEARN16 Messaoud & Romero (2016)
○ Educational robotics and the five key skills for the 21st century○ Educational robots in the market○ From mBot to cocciBot○ Limits and future work
Presentation content
#5c21: Five key skills for the 21st century
● Five key skills for the 21st
century life long learner:
○ Critical thinking
○ Collaboration
○ Creativity
○ Problem solving
○ Computational thinking
Romero (2016). Design : Dumont
Educational robots in the market
Popular robots for primary education:
○ Cubelets○ BeeBot and his brother blueBot○ LEGO WeDo
Popular robots for secondary education:
○ Lego Mindstorms NXT/EV3○ mBot
mBot characteristics
○ Open source programming platform
○ Good quality price ratio○ Unprotected hardware board and
components○ Suitable for older primary school
children○ Not appropriate for kindergarten
children
From mBot to CocciBot
There was a need to make mBot usable by older and younger children (adaptation)
An adaptation that had two main objectives:
○ to adapt the robot for for younger users by designing a shell for the mBot
○ to add autonomous programming feature (no external device)
Characteristics of CocciBot
○ It’s an animal type robot : the shell of a funny ladybug
○ Colorful : the popular red-and-black North American
seven-spotted species
○ It has volume for the integration of the mBot.
Usability Vs. Flexibility
How CocciBot works
○ Can be programmed via the mBlock software (on a computer)○ Programmable through a seven button interface (the dots of
the insect)○ seven basic functions: “Forward”, “Backward”, “Left”, “Right”,
“Pause”, “Clear” and “Go”○ Orthogonal directions only○ Feedback signals: illuminating antennas with programmable
color patterns, sound signals
Pedagogical scenarios
○ Collaborative learning activities○ Co-programing activities○ Variety of subjects (mathematics, science, language, etc.)○ Possibility to implement new behaviours (custom
functionalities) for a broader range of
pedagogical applications
Limits and future work
Limits:
○ Educators need high programming skills to customize CocciBot○ Accuracy depends on the surface material
Future work:
○ Implement many modes of behavior that can be activated through predefined codes
○ Make selectable itinerary parameters (unit distance, rotation angle, etc.)○ Add diagonal direction (45 degrees)○ Improve accuracy○ Improve the audio-visual signals○ Elaborate general best practices (guidelines) in using pedagogical robots
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#edulearn16 #CoCreaTIC
CocciBot: transforming the mBot pedagogical robot to be used from kindergarten to secondary school
Ali Messaoud et Margarida Romero @margaridaromero
Faculté des Sciences de l’ÉducationUniversité Laval
Sou
rce:
http
://w
ww
.arc
hiba
t.com
/blo
g/w
p-co
nten
t/upl
oads
/201
5/06
/fabl
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