Publication: Fusion Technology and Visualisation to Share STEM Data Using PETS Robots (i-COMEL) for Open Data Readiness Amongst Primary School Children
Date
2021
Authors
Badioze Zaman H.
Baharin H.
Ahmad A.
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Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Abstract
The world is seeing rapid and dynamic technological innovations in the form of applications, tools, systems, or software that can help a nation's population, organisations and Government, make their administration and management more effective and efficient and most importantly at a more affordable price. Fusion technology, a hybrid concept practiced in Japan, Germany, which involves the integration of two or more technologies to develop products that can revolutionise the market. Thus, this paper highlights a fusion technology innovation (integration of vision and motion as well as analytical technologies) in the form of Box Robot application or PETS Robots that are programmable, called i-COMEL, to share STEM data in a class activity on a lesson related to Solar Systems. This activity was conducted to help primary school students enhance critical and scientific thinking through the use of Computational Thinking (CT) across STEM. In this activity students share data with other groups of students to prepare them for open data readiness. This was done through the use of PETS Robots that would use both vision and motion technologies to collect data based on the questions set, and these data were uploaded to the ThinkSpeak server on the Internet to visualise the data and displayed for all students to share during the presentation in the classroom. Learning to share data amongst the very young generation of the population, is important as Malaysia reinvents itself and moves towards a smart and digital data driven society, Malaysia 5.0. Findings of the proof of concept (POC) conducted on i-COMEL, showed that fusion technology used in the form PETS Robots and integrated with Computational Thinking (CT) across STEM for primary school students not only was a fun method of learning STEM subjects and acquiring critical and scientific skills but also an effective approach to open data readiness practice amongst primary school students. � 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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Application programs; Data visualization; Engineering education; Open Data; Population statistics; Robots; Visualization; Fusion technology; Fusion technology innovation; Fusion technology strategy; Malaysia; Malaysia 5.0; Open data readiness; Open datum; STEM data; Technology innovation; Technology strategies; Students