Lai Ying-Hsun
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taitung University, Taitung, Taiwan.
Front Psychol. 2023 Mar 10;14:1098812. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1098812. eCollection 2023.
As education systems worldwide begin to accept and implement computational thinking, the educators of both elementary and higher education are considering the cultivation of students' computational thinking abilities. It is hoped that students effectively analyze and deconstruct all kinds of complex issues with computational thinking, and seek computer-executable ways to solve real-world problems. Through the integration of program education, students can learn and develop the abilities to practically apply their theoretical learning in information technology education. With the promotion of the concept of multicultural education, an increasing number of educational arenas are gradually introducing the concept of multicultural education to inculcate in students respect for different ethnic cultures via multicultural integration.
In this study, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology was used to introduce culturally responsive teaching. The objective was to build a UAV-assisted culturally responsive teaching environment for multi-ethnic students that is based on their different thinking mechanisms formed by their respective cultures and living environments. Multi-ethnic students can attempt to solve problems employing computational thinking that is implemented when programing to control UAV. With the influence of culturally responsive teaching, the UAV-assisted learning strategies helped students and teachers of multi-ethnic groups understand different cultures and learn through mutual aid and cooperation.
This study discussed the computational thinking abilities via different dimensions: logical thinking, programming ability, and cultural respect. The results showed that the introduction of UAV-assisted culturally responsive teaching method benefits not only indigenous students. For Han Chinese students as well, owing to the influence of cultural understanding, their overall learning effectiveness and cultural respect will be strengthened. Thus, this method improves the learning effectiveness in programming of multi-ethnic students, as well as of students with weaker prior programming ability. The method can also enhance the cognition and comprehension of different cultures in multicultural education.
随着全球教育系统开始接受并实施计算思维，中小学和高等教育的教育工作者都在考虑培养学生的计算思维能力。人们希望学生能够运用计算思维有效地分析和拆解各种复杂问题，并寻找计算机可执行的方法来解决现实世界的问题。通过程序教育的整合，学生可以学习并培养将理论学习应用于信息技术教育实践的能力。随着多元文化教育理念的推广，越来越多的教育领域逐渐引入多元文化教育理念，通过多元文化融合，向学生灌输对不同民族文化的尊重。
在本研究中，使用无人机（UAV）技术引入文化回应性教学。目的是为多民族学生构建一个基于其各自文化和生活环境形成的不同思维机制的无人机辅助文化回应性教学环境。多民族学生可以尝试运用编程控制无人机时所运用的计算思维来解决问题。在文化回应性教学的影响下，无人机辅助学习策略帮助多民族群体的学生和教师了解不同文化，并通过互助合作进行学习。
本研究从不同维度探讨了计算思维能力：逻辑思维、编程能力和文化尊重。结果表明，引入无人机辅助文化回应性教学方法不仅有利于本土学生。对于汉族学生来说，由于文化理解的影响，他们的整体学习效果和文化尊重也将得到加强。因此，这种方法提高了多民族学生以及先前编程能力较弱的学生在编程方面的学习效果。该方法还可以增强多元文化教育中对不同文化的认知和理解。
