Can robotics increase critical thinking skills in high school students?
How do you assess critical thinking? ANSWER from Michelle Mock on 28 March 2006: Of course robotics can increase critical thinking skills! Whenever you design and build something, you learn to think on your feet and figure out different ways to do things to make things work. Critical thinking is not a passive skill. You can have robotics in the classroom and let someone tell you each step of the process… you don’t really learn as much that way. How do you assess critical thinking? I assume you are asking how individual teachers might assess a student. This can vary. Typically robotics will generate its own set of problems for students to figure out and solve. Observing students as they work and listening to their thought process as they talk their way through a problem, gives great insight into their critical thinking skills. Often, teachers require that students put these thoughts in a journal or answer a question in an essay form. This provides one method of assessing a student’s c
