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Before the implementation of a mandatory SW education for elementary, middle & high schools in 2018, the government has promoted 'The Activation and Expansion Project for SW Education of Robot Utilization' in full scale.
Facing the fast change to 'Software Centered Society' that determines the national competitiveness, a promotion in this policy of mandatory SW education will provide students in elementary, middle & high schools with an opportunity to learn software and will foster creative talented people who will lead the era of creative economy. The SW education of robot utilization has a goal such that students will understand the concept of software and coding and learn about the resolution of problems through creative methods while students operate actual robots
Examining actual curriculums in schools, students in elementary school will learn about the understanding of SW, the function and structure of robots, and the elements and structure of programing in actual class hours. Students in middle school will learn about the understanding of algorithm, the control structure, the operation principle of computing system in the information subject.
According to the promotion plan for the SW eduction of robot utilization by the government, the government would prepare the basis of SW education of robot utilization such as an operation of testing school and a purchasing of robots in 2015, and the expansion of testing school, the expansion of training for teachers, the operation of experimental classes for students, and the expansion of global exchange in 2016. In 2017, the government will promote a complete support system for school fields (foster a group of supervisors, and lecturers) and the expansion of distributing teaching & learning materials.
This year, KERIS (Korea Education & Research Information Service) who supervises the SW Education Project of Robot Utilization, has received a project support for market creation and robot distribution from KIRIA (Korea Institute for Robot Industry Advancement) to promote the projects such as the reinforcement of SW education of robot utilization by leading schools, the development of education contents, and the training for teachers.
Examining in detail, the project contains the operation and management of SW education of robot utilization by 900 leading schools, the operation of training courses for teachers of SW education in middle & high schools, the development of contents for a remote training of SW education, the training of 200 leading teachers for SW education, and the development and distribution of contents for students of SW education.
Leading schools have been continuously increased, which will be 900 schools in this year and 2,000 schools in the next year, and 10,000 schools in 2018. The government will promote the operation of testing classes and the hosting of robot competition, the establishment and operation of permanent experiment center. At the same time, the government has set a goal to support the global market advancement of domestic educational robot package.
To promote such project, KERIS has decided to promote the partnership event with relevant domestic institutions such as KOFAC (Korea Foundation for Advancement of Science and Creativity), the development and distribution of excellent projects(PR through website and a group of supervisors), PR to visiting foreigners through the operation of KERIS Future Experiment Hall, the partnership with teachers for global exchange and the case development, and the establishment of a cooperative system by public, government and academy(robot related companies, testing schools, KERIS). Through this project, KERIS expects to accomplish the support to foster talented people of creative integration type, to foster domestic robot industry, and to develop a model for global exchange & cooperation.
In the meantime, in order to activate the software education of robot utilization, it is necessary to have robots for education. Category of educational robots can be largely classified to 'Teaching Robot' and 'Teacher Assistance Robot'. The teaching robot means a robot that can either educate the robot technology itself or can be utilized for the education in other areas such as mathematics and science. The teacher assistance robot means a robot that saves learning contents and assists teachers or that helps the improvement in the educational environment of teachers regardless of education contents. In order to activate the software education of robot utilization, both teaching robot and teacher assistance robot should be developed.
This year, KERIS has proposed 17 robots that can be utilized for SW education of robot utilization. It seems close mainly to the teaching robot. These robots are the ones that can be controlled by the software, which has a characteristic of possible movement by robots. It is also possible to interconnect with the programing languages for education such as self SW, entry, scratch, python, and C language.
'EDUNET', an internet site operated by KERIS, has introduced this in detail: an automobile robot by ROBOTIS, a hamster by ROBOMATION, a robo kit by ROBOROBO, a smart robot Nuri-Atti by SK Telecom, a RQ robot by ROBOBUILDER, a ROBOTAMI creative by ROBOTRON, a code star creative kit by Isan Solution, rocket smart & drone kit by ROBOLINK, and an ALTINO by SAEON. The government expects these educational robots to contribute to broaden the understanding of software education for students in practical education field.
www.edunet.net