Teaching of the Educational Robotics in Ukrainian Schools: the Ways of Implementation

摘要

The paper is considered of the issues of determining the ways of implementation of the educational robotics in Ukrainian schools. The present research describes of the educational robotics as a powerful tool for STEM education; its interdisciplinary links, including STEM subjects, have been analyzed. Analysis of the current state of robotics development as an applied field has shown its intensive development. As a consequence, there is an increasing demand for specialists in the robotics industry, as there is already an urgent need for specialists to plan, design and programming robots. Also, it is revealed of the increasing of the robotics popularity as an educational trend in Ukraine and in the world. Such basic methods were used in present research as analysis of the development state of the educational robotics in Ukraine, searching of relevant data for determining of learning process of the secondary education institutions, etc. During the current work it was found out that one of the ways to increase of the competitiveness of our country, in particular in the IT industry, is to implement into the school curriculum of the subjects related to modern ICTs, in particular educational robotics. An analysis of the interdisciplinary links of the educational robotics has shown that it is an interdisciplinary subject, which is at the intersection a lot of the natural science and technical fields. In particular, teaching of the educational robotics enables to the students to solve real life problems that require of the knowledge of STEM subjects. These considerations also confirm of the timeliness and relevance of the separation of robotics into a separate area and the implementation into the learning process of Ukrainian schools of the separate school subject -the school course of the robotics -in the future. The authors propose the 5 main directions of implementation of the educational robotics in the learning process at schools, which can be further defined as modules of the future school course of the robotics. Such steps will allow to prepare quickly and qualitatively of the children for the modern conditions of intensive IT development, which, in turn, will enable them to become competitive specialists in the IT industry in the future.