| Abstract [eng] |
Today, with the development of Information technology, the influx of Artificial Intelligence, automation and robotics is incorporated into all spheres of life, there is a great need for people who understand and know how to program and control those processes. These specialists are programmers. According to European and world statistics, this specialty is one of the most popular in the labor market. That is why it is necessary for students already at school to understand what programming is, how the basic codes are being written, to learn to write elementary algorithms, to apply them to solve problems. So far, this is a significant challenge for teachers who are trying to demonstrate the attractiveness and accessibility of the programming module to those who like Engineering, Physics, Math’s, who want to design and program. This work consists of the series of lessons named “Creating a chat robot”, which appears to be one of the opportunities to show students how to learn Programming, and at the same time introduce teachers to basic, accessible and comprehensible Programming opportunities for students in lower grades (in this case, seventh graders) without using more complicated programming codes. Chat Bot is an assistant that people of all ages and backgrounds are happy to interact with today. For many of us, interacting with a chat bot is as easy as going to a store, firm, service, or another necessary service facility as if all you need to do is contact, inquire, or find out the information you are interested into. The lesson series “Creating a Talking Robot” reveals the possibility for students to create an assistant who interacts with the person interested in asking questions, the topic chosen by the students, selects the answers, taking into account the person's choices. The lesson cycle “Creating a Talking Robot” was implemented at the KTU Engineering Lyceum. It was taught to the seventh grade students who had chosen the Engineering module - Basics of Algorithmics. After implementing this cycle of lessons (17 lessons) and interviewing students, we see that it is a real challenge to promote Programming in schools, making it as attractive and understandable as possible to not very motivated for students but who are interested in automation, robotics, innovations. 83 percent of students who had completed the course replied that they would choose Programming for the next school year if is offered. The article “Introduction to the development of chatbots in 7th grade” was written and published at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, the student Daiva Railiene also took part at the 7 International Conference ALTA’21 “Advanced Learning Technologies and Applications - from distance to hybrid learning ”. The lesson "Creating a Chat Robot" is part of the Google Classroom course. It will be available to all interested IT teachers and informal leaders. The course will be improved and edited, taking into account the observations and remarks made by teachers and students. |
