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First Steps in Teaching Robotics with Drones

Using Flying Robots to Introduce Students to Coding and Problem-Solving

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Robotics in Education (RiE 2019)

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Teaching with drones will report and reflect about a conducted educational concept using a flying robot to motivate and teach programming to students at different learning levels. It will show how to enable students to experience that programming is a form of interaction between men and machine or in this case a human-robotics-interaction (HRI). They also learn that a code is nothing else than a language which is used for HRI and apply the newly gained knowledge to a problem-based programming task.

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Breuch, B., Fislake, M. (2020). First Steps in Teaching Robotics with Drones. In: Merdan, M., Lepuschitz, W., Koppensteiner, G., Balogh, R., Obdržálek, D. (eds) Robotics in Education. RiE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1023. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26945-6_13

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