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In this article we describe process, content and participants of the university compulsory elective course “The Robotic Kits in Education 2”, which we taught in the winter semester of 2017. We explain specific conditions and circumstances, which encourage transformation of the organization of the course. We focus on analysis of the knowledge our students acquired as the result of this modification. In our research we used the qualitative methods of data collection and data analysis. We compared all students’ work and products with the theory of Design of thematic unit and we also present students’ conclusions and recommendations for creation of leisure time lessons with robotics.
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Mayerová, K., Veselovská, M., Csicsolová, I. (2019). University Students Were Creating Activities for Leisure Time Robotic Lessons with Constructionist Approach. In: Lepuschitz, W., Merdan, M., Koppensteiner, G., Balogh, R., Obdržálek, D. (eds) Robotics in Education. RiE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 829. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97085-1_4
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