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TERECoP – 6° MeetingTERECoP – 6° MeetingEducational Robotics in Italy:Educational Robotics in Italy:future perspectives after the future perspectives after the
TERECoP experienceTERECoP experience
The Italian group:Emanuele Menegatti and Michele Moro, DEI UNIPD;Irene Pagello, Marco Antonelli, and Stefano Tonello, ITR; Nello Fava and Stefano Monfalcon, TMR
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IntroductionIntroduction
• The group• Previous competences• The course implementations• Outcomes• The lessons learnt• Future development
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The groupThe group
• Department of Computer Engineering (DEI) – University of Padova● Emanuele Menegatti● Michele Moro
• IT+Robotics (ITR) – Padova● Irene Pagello● Marco Antonelli, Stefano Tonello, Alberto Pretto
• Town Museum of Rovereto (TMR)● Nello Fava● Stefano Monfalcon
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Previous competencesPrevious competences
• DEI● Research on Robotics and Computer Vision● Programming languages and Real time systems
● Constructivist/constructionist approach in teaching/learning
• ITR● Development of robotic application● Dissemination of modern robotic culture
• TMR● Dissemination of scientific knowledge● Application of educational robotics● Supporting the scholastic system for applying robotics in education
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The course implementationsThe course implementations
• The ‘official’ implementation was held in Rovereto
• About 15 in-service teachers on different levels
• Two weekends + two evaluation meetings
• Objectives:● to build competences for designing educational laboratory project-based activities;
● to learn to use innovative didactic methodologies and technologies that the course proposed;
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The course implementationsThe course implementations
• Objectives:
● to consolidate the ability of working in groups, also through the use of ICT tools;
● working on:▪ the realization of the proposed activities, with communication and guided groupbased work;
▪ pedagogical and methodological reasoning on the educative management of the activity
• After the course, ten teachers presented their activities in the exhibition of the Discovery Festival
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The course implementationsThe course implementations
• Another implementation in Bolzano• About 20 in-service teachers as trainees
• Following substantially the TERECoP curriculum with some adaptations
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OutcomesOutcomes
• Papers presented in international conferences
• Organization of a workshop on Educational Robotics followed by an open day in Venice
• Organization of the edu-robotics exhibition within the Discovery in Rovereto (included a TERECoP stand)
• Participation to several initiatives organized by schools
• Participation to the Open Day in Pamplona
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OutcomesOutcomes
• Development● Several didactical examples of various levels, both in NXT-G and NXC
● Analysis of the NXT sensors● A simple simulator with graphical interface
● A remote laboratory● How to control NXT with other languages
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Lessons learntLessons learnt
• Teacher prefer practical activities with respect to theoretical lessons
• They are not used to exploit a constructivist approach in their daily lessons in the class
• Their request was for activities examples with a clear didactical content● Importance of a well presented and organized repository (avoiding just off-the-shelf examples)
• They show difficulties in organizing effective and well-integrated laboratorial activities
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Lessons learntLessons learnt
• Some criticalities● In Italy teachers of arts and humanities have difficulties in approaching robots as a teaching tools and also in collaborating on a project base with the teachers of science or technology
● The cost of the NXT kit● NXT could be too complex for primary level students and perceived too childish for oldest secondary level students
● Financial requests for new courses
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Lessons learntLessons learnt
• Suggestions● Take into account the peculiar local school context and teacher audience
● Focalize the conveying to teachers of the methodological method and to give them motivations for applying robotic technologies within their normal curricula
● Not be strictly dependent on the robotic kit chosen
● Find collaborations with external entities (apart from financial issues) if the can give support in any phase of the learning process (examples: FLL, LEC, Robocup, club houses)
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Future ProjectsFuture Projects
• The organization of new teacher training activities in collaboration with the school network(s) and official scholastic institutions
• To continue development of lab activities with undergraduate/graduate students (more specifically using Lejos, URBI and with humanoid robots)
• The participation to a new European or National Project on Educational Robotics (to be identified)
• To organize again a workshop (and maybe an open day) at SIMPAR 2010 in Darmstadt (Germany)
• To collaborate with TMR for the LEC, FLL and other dissemination activities
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