Pensamento computacional e robótica: um estudo sobre habilidades desenvolvidas em oficinas de robótica educacional

Abstract

This course conclusion work aims at investigate the use of educational robotics, in the support tool in the development of activities related to computational thinking. With the objective to analyze which skills are developed with the join of the two approaches. To these end interventions were performed in a workshop on robotics, following the thought of Seymour Papert, constructionism creator. Who claims that student learning is facilitated when it interacts with an object, which provides a means for the student to build their own knowledge and according to your interest. From that teach students to think computationally and realize that these concepts are present in their daily lives, besides aiding in problem solving through the principles of computational thinking. Besides this it was noted evidence of use of competences inherent to computational thinking during robotics workshop and cognitive enhancement of knowledge related to computing in the students participating in the workshop of robotics. However, there is the possibility of carrying out other research in the area, such as use of other robotics kits to verify that they may be more appropriate to develop computational thinking than that used in this work thus could provide a deeper basis of literature area.