In July 2007, in the Italian northwest region named Piedmont, a number of teachers and school headmasters created a School-Net for k-12 "Educational use of robotics". The School-Net aims at promoting Papert's constructionism in a cooperative environment and at setting up a model of small robots programming activities integrated in standard curricula covered in k-12 school years. The project is based on the cooperation between the School-Net and the Computer Science Department of the Turin University for providing technical competences with mini-languages, designing and implementing program development environments pupils oriented and maintaining a community of practice supporting teachers during their activities with robots. Here we concentrate on primary school activities where educational aspects concerned by using small robots fill a long list with, of course, mathematics but also education to affectivity, creativity, communication, geography and others. Experiences from the project are here described.

University and Primary Schools Cooperation For Small Robots Programming

DEMO, Giuseppina;
2009-01-01

Abstract

In July 2007, in the Italian northwest region named Piedmont, a number of teachers and school headmasters created a School-Net for k-12 "Educational use of robotics". The School-Net aims at promoting Papert's constructionism in a cooperative environment and at setting up a model of small robots programming activities integrated in standard curricula covered in k-12 school years. The project is based on the cooperation between the School-Net and the Computer Science Department of the Turin University for providing technical competences with mini-languages, designing and implementing program development environments pupils oriented and maintaining a community of practice supporting teachers during their activities with robots. Here we concentrate on primary school activities where educational aspects concerned by using small robots fill a long list with, of course, mathematics but also education to affectivity, creativity, communication, geography and others. Experiences from the project are here described.
2009
Second World Summit of the Knowledge Society
Chania, Greece
16-18 settembre 2009
Best Practices for the Knowledge Society. Knowledge, Learning, Development and Technology for All
Springer-Verlag
LNCS/LNAI 5736
238
247
9783642047565
http://www.springerlink.com/content/w7p7125j8ht60627/
cross-disciplinary activities; inquiry based teaching and learning techniques; pupil centered teaching; programming mini-languages
G. Barbara Demo; Simonetta Siega; M. Stella De Michele
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