ROBOTICS AS A SUBJECT IN SECONDARY EDUCATION. RESULTS OF AN EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Construction of educational robots is very motivating for the students of Secondary Education and is an attractive and innovative way of learning putting into practice the theoretical knowledge of Science and Technology. It had never been addressed its teaching as an "official" subject, annual, evaluable, that forms part of the curriculum of secondary schools by its own. The aim of this paper is to present the implementation experience of the newly created "Robotics" subject which began in the IES Turaniana Roquetas de Mar (Almeria) in a pioneering way in Andalusia, which has already become a reference for a variety of Secondary Schools. The results obtained by the students involved show that robotics in the classroom is a great teaching tool in terms of student motivation, development of basic skills and acquisition of technological and scientific knowledge in general.