Integration of Robotics into STEM Education for Facilitating Environmental Sustainability

Authors

  • Corrienna Abdul Talib , Hassan Aliyu , Faruku Aliyu , Adi Maimun Abdul Malik , Subuh Anggoro, Marlina Ali

Abstract

—This day, increasing attention demonstrated in developing innovative tools for improved teaching
and learning of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) for environmental
sustainability made robotics not only an outstanding tool for hands-on learning but of general topics in
educational institutions. Robotics help learners transmute abstract scientific, engineering and technological
concepts into concrete one for the understanding real-world environment, hence countries like China, Japan,
Russia and the United State of America organized robotic competitions for secondary school STEM subjects
to cultivate in students, the intelligence and talent in the future/upcoming generation. This study is a
quantitative research that investigated the feasibility of integrating robotics into STEM education to
facilitate classroom instruction in secondary schools. The undergraduate and postgraduate students of two
technology based universities from different continents were chosen as the respondents of the study. The
study, which adopts purposive sampling technique distributed an online survey of 357 respondents for which
197 responses were retrieved and are analyzed using Statistical Package For Social Science 25.0. The results
indicated that the majority of the respondents (mode, 5) agreed that robotics could be used to teach
programming, problem-solving for STEM subjects, design and even music and art to learners at all levels of
their education. Moreover, over 80% strongly agreed that integrating robotics in teaching and learning
processes would facilitate the classroom instructions. Thus, it is high time for educators to encourage the
development and implementation of robotics in the instructional processes.

Published

2020-01-31

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