Robótica Educativa. La programación como parte de un proceso educativo

Abstract

This article addresses the topic of Educational Robotics in Uruguay. It includes a brief review of the history of the discipline in this country, as well as the different approaches that it presents. The Educational Robotic is analyzed as a way of working that supports the development of computational thinking in children and young people in general education, beyond the programming and the profession that they will be choose in the future. It presents the programming as a stage in the development of specific projects, chosen by the students. Imagine, design, build and programming make up the continuum that represents educational robotics and its way of working in elementary and high school.