The use of digital manipulatives in K-12: Robotics, GPS/GIS and programming

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Nugent, Gwen ^a   Barker, Brad ^a   Grandgenett, Neal ^b   Adamchuk, Vaicheslav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

GIS; GPS; Robotics; Stem attitudes

Indexed keywords

BIO-SYSTEMS; COMPARISON GROUP; DIGITAL MANIPULATIVES; EDUCATIONAL ROBOTICS; GEO-SPATIAL; GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGY; GIS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM RECEIVERS; INFORMAL LEARNING; MIDDLE SCHOOL; NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATIONS; POSITIVE ATTITUDE; POST ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; RESEARCH AND EVALUATION; SCIENCE , TECHNOLOGY , ENGINEERING , AND MATHEMATICS; SCIENCE , TECHNOLOGY , ENGINEERING , AND MATHS; SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING; YOUTH ATTITUDES;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; RESEARCH; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 77951435057     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2009.5350828     Document Type: Conference Paper

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