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Steamsational Writing: An Investigation Into Using Robots to Inspire Children's Narrative Skills

Steamsational Writing: An Investigation Into Using Robots to Inspire Children's Narrative Skills

Marybeth Green, C. Lisa McNair
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781668424117|ISBN10: 1668424118|EISBN13: 9781668424124
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-2411-7.ch037
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Green, Marybeth, and C. Lisa McNair. "Steamsational Writing: An Investigation Into Using Robots to Inspire Children's Narrative Skills." Research Anthology on Computational Thinking, Programming, and Robotics in the Classroom, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2022, pp. 858-875. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-2411-7.ch037

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Green, M. & McNair, C. L. (2022). Steamsational Writing: An Investigation Into Using Robots to Inspire Children's Narrative Skills. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Research Anthology on Computational Thinking, Programming, and Robotics in the Classroom (pp. 858-875). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-2411-7.ch037

Chicago

Green, Marybeth, and C. Lisa McNair. "Steamsational Writing: An Investigation Into Using Robots to Inspire Children's Narrative Skills." In Research Anthology on Computational Thinking, Programming, and Robotics in the Classroom, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 858-875. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-2411-7.ch037

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Abstract

Providing young children with rich environments for writing has been a continuing quest for teachers in the early grades. This chapter investigates the use of Bee-bot robots as a means of creating a stimulating environment that engages second graders in the writing process and learning story grammar elements. Researchers met with the students weekly for an hour over six weeks. In the first week, students wrote an initial story and learned the basics of programming a Bee-bot robot. In subsequent weeks, students listened to a story set in the context of the Bee-bot mat, reviewed vocabulary words, planned a path for their robot, wrote a short story, and executed their robot program. There was a significant difference overall between the baseline story and the final story, and between the initial rating of each of the story grammar elements and the final rating of the elements, with the exception of Character.

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