ALEC: um robô móvel para o apoio de ensino de algoritmos para crianças

Abstract

The use of mobile robots in education has already been consolidated as an effective strategy to assist both teaching and learning of technologies, since it facilitates the visualization of the programming result that becomes attractive for the children. This article presents the development a mobile robot called Alec, aimed to teach and learn algorithms for children in the initial years of elementary school. Alec is able to read instructional letters that serve as an algorithm step to guide him to his ultimate goal. A version of Alec is already in the final stage of prototyping and it is hoped that with its use, it will be possible to stimulate algorithmic thinking in children, one of the competences of computational thinking.