Design and Implementation of the Robot Teaching Model Combining Maker Education and Project-based Learning
Computational thinking is one of the core competencies in the teaching of information technology in middle schools, and programming design courses serve as an effective approach for cultivating computational thinking. How to foster students' computational thinking during the teaching of programming design courses is a crucial issue that urgently needs to be resolved in the teaching process. The article takes the junior high school robotics course as a carrier, constructs a teaching model and carries out teaching experiments using the concepts of "maker education" and "project-based teaching", aiming to explore whether this model can effectively improve students' computational thinking level. The study finds that with the support of the concepts of "maker education" and "project-based teaching", students' computational thinking level has been significantly improved.
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