UpRobotics: robótica educacional utilizando linguagem visual baseada em blocos

Abstract

Technology is a fundamental resource that has an impact on many sectors of everyday life. Thus, there is a growing demand for professionals with skills and competences in the area of computing in the industrial sector in scientific terms. However, there is still a latent lack regarding the development of computational thinking in basic education, particularly in societies with low socioeconomic status. Several reasons that go beyond limited resources or lack of interest by some students, due to difficulty in understanding and abstracting knowledge of these technologies, both on the part of educators and students. In this way, it presents the computational training method used in a successful method of graphics in the scientific field: educational robotics and the use of visual languages in draggable blocks. UpRobotics is the main search engine of this research project, as it is a possibility that assists teachers with both mathematical and computational knowledge of children’s schools, enabling the public to manipulate manipulators, real or virtual, according to the logic of each student. Thus, for the state of the art, comprehensible studies related to the topic, techniques or available techniques, a method based on software engineering principles was used, which is based on conducting primary and secondary studies different from the investigation. Therefore, experiments carried out with students in a school using concepts to support basic education applied to educational robotics teaching and computational thinking, this project brought to the area of educational robotics contribution to the students’ concept-learning, all this just 3D simulation and block visual languages.