Research And Development Of Early Childhood Robot Course Based On The Concept Of Maker Education

"Everyone is a maker,everything can be innovative".innovation ability is not the patent of a few outstanding talents,but one of the essential basic skills for 21st century talent.Actually,Every child is born with creativity.Many studies have shown that children's imagination and creativity far beyond the intellectual level of adult and children's innovation ability can be enhanced by education.Robotics education as an important carrier to cultivate children's innovation ability and practical ability,which is getting more and more attention by the community.In recent years,domestic scholars have studied more and more of robotics education,but most are concentrated in primary and secondary schools and universities,little attention to children.At present,there is a lack of systematic curriculum for an early childhood robotics education,and the teaching objectives,teaching content,teaching methods,teaching evaluation are same.Early childhood is an important and special stage for a person's education and development,which is the best time for the development of children's innovation ability.So it is necessary to develop an early childhood robotics curriculum.Based on their own teaching experience,the author has learned the existing research results on the basis of the present situation of the domestic and foreign children's robot curriculum,and made a preliminary exploration on the development of the childhood robotics curriculum.According to the idea of maker education,this paper designed and developed the childhood robotics course,which enables children to cultivate their imagination,creativity and problem solving skills in their favorite play.On the basis,we select the young children of Tianjin Children's Class 2013 and 2014 kindergarten classes as the research object to carry out the action research,aiming to find the problems in the course,and constantly modify and perfect.This thesis is divided into six parts in total:The first part:introduction.This part described the background,purpose,and significance of this study,analyzed the research situation of the preschool robotics education at home and abroad.On this basis,the author determines the research content,train of thought and research methods.The second part:related concepts and theoretical basis.This part defined the connotations of maker,maker education,and childhood robotics curriculum,and elabor-ated the theoretical basis of this study and its implications for this study.The third part:An investigation on the present situation of the childhood robotics curriculum.This part takes Xi'an as an example,understands the present situation and existing problems of the childhood robotics curriculum through carrying on the questionnaire survey and the interview to the kindergarten teacher and carrying on the field investigation to the partial kindergartens,and provides the material for the following action research.The fourth part:The design and development of the childhood robotics curriculum based on the idea of maker education.Based on the investigation and study of the present situation of the childhood robotics curriculum in Xi'an,a study on the development of a childhood robotics curriculum was carried out.In this study,a juvenile palace in Xi'an City as a practical base.The course is based on the idea of maker education and combines the teaching practice and student situation of the Children's Palace.The content includes the needs and feasibility analysis of the course,the orientation and goal of the course,the selection of the course content and the development of the teaching material,the design of the course teaching activities and the establishment of the curriculum evaluation strategy.The fifth part:The practice of childhood robotics curriculum based on the idea of maker education.In order to test the effect,the author took the children's palace in Xi'an as the practice base,selected two kindergarten class children as the research object,using a year and a half time for two rounds of action research.The first round of action research is mainly to implement teaching using the curriculum,in order to finding the problems in the implementation of the curriculum,and put forward a revised views.Then the author conducted a second round of action research,which is mainly to amend the problem found in the first round of action research,and reflected the curriculum and improved it.The sixth part:the summary and outlook of the research.This part mainly summarizes the whole research work,and points out the innovation and the limitation of the research,and makes a prospect for the follow-up study.This study introduces the idea of maker education into the childhood robotics curriculum and carries out two rounds of course action research.In the future,the curriculum will be practiced in a wider range of research,and constantly modify,improve,update the content.