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This study is the first attempt to employ Knowledge Building pedagogy and technology to integrate robotics into subjects like mathematics. Over the course of 6 weeks, 16 elementary students (Grade 5/6) engaged in engineering design process, computational thinking, and mathematical reasoning to design and program robots to collectively solve real-life issues such as creating a green and clean city. One of the knowledge building goals is to recreate schools as knowledge creation organizations. Therefore, this study employs the innovation network framework and uses social network and lexical analyses to analyze students’ collaborations in robotics against knowledge creation organizations criteria and examine the extent to which student knowledge in math improved. The results show the emergence of the innovation networks in education settings and the importance of these networks for idea improvement.
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Khanlari, A. (2020). Collaborative Innovation Network in Robotics. In: Przegalinska, A., Grippa, F., Gloor, P. (eds) Digital Transformation of Collaboration. COINs 2019. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48993-9_14
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