iRobot: Teaching an Evaluated, Competencies-Based Introductory Artificial Intelligence Class in Highschools

Harald Burgsteiner; Martin Kandlhofer; Gerald Steinbauer

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46073-4

iRobot: Teaching an Evaluated, Competencies-Based Introductory Artificial Intelligence Class in Highschools

Harald Burgsteiner, Martin Kandlhofer, Gerald Steinbauer

Institute of Software Technology (7160)

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Abstract

Profound knowledge about at least the fundamentals of Arti-
ficial Intelligence (AI) will become increasingly important for careers in
science and engineering. Therefore we present an innovative educational
project teaching fundamental concepts of artificial intelligence at high
school level. We developed a high school AI-course (called “iRobot”) deal-
ing with major topics of AI and computer science (automatons, agent
systems, data structures, search algorithms, graphs, problem solving by
searching, planning, machine learning) according to suggestions in the
current literature. The course was divided into seven weekly teaching
units of two hours each, comprising both theoretical and hands-on com-
ponents. We conducted and empirically evaluated a pilot project in a
representative Austrian high school. The results of the evaluation show
that the participating students have become familiar with the concepts
included in the course and the various topics addressed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	218-223
Journal	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	9904
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46073-4
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	39th Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence: KI 2016 - University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria Duration: 26 Sep 2016 → 30 Sep 2016 http://ki2016.org/

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EduRob - Educational Robotics in Styria
Steinbauer-Wagner, G. & Kandlhofer, M.
1/09/14 → 31/08/17
Project: Research project

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iRobot: Teaching an Evaluated, Competencies-Based Introductory Artificial Intelligence Class in Highschools

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