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Educational Robotics (ER) is increasingly used to boost student performance in several subjects, being reported successful attempts to introduce ER as a non-conventional way to help students in learning mathematics, sciences or even arts and to implement novel learning approaches, such as constructivism, project-based and problem-based learning. ER has been used to promote multidisciplinarity and collaborative work, to foster students' motivation, imagination, creativity and logical thinking. However, available studies are mainly descriptive and qualitative. Indeed, fundamental questions, such as "Is ER a suitable tool for basic school students?" or "What are the contents/skills that can be taught/learned using ER?" remain largely unanswered. This paper proposes a methodology to conduct studies that provide an answer to those questions. Our proposal has two distinct components: (i) the planning of a set of ER sessions to conduct with the students; (ii) valida...
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Educational robotics has been used for a relatively long time to promote the development of students’ computational thinking, but in most cases, such activities are offered as extracurricular activities to students who are interested in robotics and programming or in specific study programmes in higher education. Despite the fact that Seymour Papert developed the programming language LOGO to change the way children learn to use technology as early as 1980, this concept is still not widely used in compulsory education. It should be kept in mind that the inclusion of robotics in the learning process can not only contribute to the development of competencies such as programming and the integration of different components, sensors and actuators but also support the learning of mathematics, physics and chemistry in an innovative way. To support the development of innovative solutions for teaching educational robotics to primary school students, the ERASMUS+ project “Innovative Educationa...
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Many attempts have been made to introduce robotics into curricular activities, although these have largely been occasional and discontinuous experiences. These experiments are often organized to teach specific know-how, enormously devaluating the technology’s potential. Furthermore, they might be placed in the hands of experts who are not on the school’s staff, and who conduct the entire project mostly without the involvement of teachers. Our research project is directed at lower secondary schools. Our aim is to try to move past the dictates of “teaching robotics” towards the less controversial vision of “teaching with robotics”. Following the lead of Datteri and Zecca (Metodi e tecnologie per l’uso educativo e didattico dei robot. Mondo digitale 75, editorial (2018)) we propose robots as a mediation instrument for normal learning and for transversal competencies in the school setting. The proposed research is a three-year program within the host school’s normal curricular subjects ...
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Educational Robotics has come to prominence in recent years because it allows to articulate a more playful and interactive teaching. It works the abstract in concrete basis, and this way stands as a new methodology of teaching and learning. Therefore, this article seeks to present educational initiatives that use robotics in elementary schools, located in western Santa Catarina and northern Rio Grande do Sul. For that, we used the Lego Mindstorms NXT robotic kit. As result, it was found that the technology enables the insertion, integration, interaction, discussion and cooperation between students, teachers and employees, which somehow permeates individual and collective development, providing opportunities for improvements in the educational processes.