Abstract:

The purpose of this research is to determine the levels of attitude towards the training within the service of teachers who participate in the bloc-based coding course with educational robots, the levels of self-capacity for the use of information technologies in education and the levels of acceptance for the use of educational robots within the classroom. The research pattern is the karma pattern embedded from the research patterns of the karma method. In the quantitative size of the study, the data collection tools were used as "Service-in-Service Education Attitude Scale", "Information Technologies Use in Education Self-Qualification Teacher Assessment Form" and "School-in-School Education Robot Use Acceptance Scale". In the quality size of the research, the semi-configured interview form prepared by the researcher was used. The study work group consists of 48 teachers in the experiment group and 25 teachers in the control group. The experimental group was trained with Lego Mindstorms Ev3 and mBot products. The control group has been trained with the Scratch 3 programming tool. For the normality analysis, the values of confusion and compression have been studied. The data was studied using the arithmetic average, standard deviation and independent sampling t test. As a result, educational robotic applications, according to Scratch, do not contribute more to the teachers’ attitude to service education levels. According to Scratch, educational robotic applications do not contribute more to the level of self-capacity by teachers using information technologies in their education. However, from the point of view of factors, educational robotic applications contribute significantly more in terms of basic skills and technological factors. According to Scratch, educational robot applications do not contribute more to the acceptance levels of teachers’ educational robot use in classroom.

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