Using Visual-Block Programming Environments to Create Robotic Systems

The research aims to substantiate the use of a visual block programming environment to prepare future teachers using robotic systems. Education faces the challenge of keeping up with the widespread introduction of robots and digital technologies into industry and everyday life. Robotics and robotic systems are becoming part of today’s technological culture and human activity. This requires new approaches to learning at all levels of education. A school is a high-tech educational complex in which advanced technical teaching aids are introduced and used. In accordance with the fundamental concept of the content and structure of general education, technical teaching aids must be combined with new technologies for teaching academic disciplines. Robotics and robotic systems are becoming a new and important element of the content of today’s education. In this regard, it is necessary to provide future teachers with the necessary knowledge about intelligent robotic systems and the possibility of their application in the educational process. The research analyzes the existing popular visual-block programming environments in the field of programming and robotics. Using the Tinkercad visual-block environment in the educational process is justified for teaching schoolchildren and training students in pedagogical specialties.