The Influence of Educational Robotics to Abstraction Skill in High School

Abstract

Abstract The skills that individuals need to face the 21st century is computational thinking or CT. Abstraction is a major element in CT. Abstraction ability is an essential ability for students to have, but there is still little research on this ability, especially in Indonesia. If in a programming language, abstraction is the programmers action to focus on essential aspects to simplify and beautify the use of code. This article aims to determine the effect of robotics on the abstraction ability of students in secondary schools. The research results from the literature review show that robotics can improve student’s abstraction abilities. Besides, learning with robotics makes students more interested in the learning process. Educators have started to develop robotics to incorporate it into a variety of subjects. Integration of science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines or so-called STEM. It takes teachers who can pursue careers in the STEM field. Besides, STEM learning with robotics requires teachers to be able to explore various abilities, one of which is the abstraction ability of students. With this ability, students are expected to be able to simplify complex problems so that they are easier to solve. Future research is expected to discuss more on this topic.