Exploring the intention to continuance of learning programming at elementary school of rural area by the mbot robot

Abstract

Since Curriculum Guidelines of 12-Year Basic Education implemented by the Ministry of Education in 2018, the program learning courses have been added to junior high school education. However, there are no programming course in the elementary school. This study is proposed to explore the continuity and intentions of the rural area students in the programming course with mBot robot and mBlock programming tool through the Post-Acceptance Model of IS Continuance. It is indicated that enlightenment education of computational thinking should be implemented during the elementary school by means of graphical programming software and robot practice. Through the graphical software and teaching robots, we can cultivate problem solving skills for students' logic, creative thinking and communication, as well as through the task-guided way to train the students' concentration and perseverance.