Cross-domain Sharing of Robots in the Community Caring and Practice of University Social Responsibility

Abstract

This paper focuses on community caring and social practice that assisting robot education development in rural schools to echo the two goals of the United Nations' SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)–"Goal 4: Quality education" and "Goal 10: Reduce inequality". At the same time, in response to the scientific and technological literacy-oriented needs of the Curriculum Guidelines of 12-Year Basic Education in 2019, it is shown how to assist rural schools in Tainan City of Taiwan to develop computational thinking and cross-domain applications of robots under the COVID-19. Four robot education suites including LEGO Mindstorms EV3, Makeblock mBot, mBot2, and VEX IQ are applied in the rural schools. The dilemma and solutions of robot education in rural schools are also discussed in this article. Universities, non-profit organizations and robot equipment vendors work together to practice social responsibility.