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6º m TERECoP – 6° Meeting Educational Robotics in Italy: future perspectives after the TERECoP 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 Introduction • • • • • • The group Previous competences The course implementations Outcomes The lessons learnt Future development TERECop - 6° Meeting 1 29 DEI UNIV PD © 2009 The group 2 • 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 TERECop - 6° Meeting 29 DEI UNIV PD © 2009 Previous competences 3 • 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 TERECop - 6° Meeting 29 DEI UNIV PD © 2009 The course implementations • The ‘official’ implementation was held in Rovereto • About 15 in-service teachers on different levels • Two weekends + two evaluation meetings 4 29 • Objectives: ● to build competences for designing educational laboratory project-based activities; ● to learn to use innovative didactic methodologies and technologies that the course proposed; TERECop - 6° Meeting DEI UNIV PD © 2009 The course implementations 5 • Objectives: ● to consolidate the ability of working in groups, also through the use of ICT tools; ● working on: 29 ▪ 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 TERECop - 6° Meeting DEI UNIV PD © 2009 The course implementations 6 • Another implementation in Bolzano • About 20 in-service teachers as trainees • Following substantially the TERECoP curriculum with some adaptations TERECop - 6° Meeting 29 DEI UNIV PD © 2009 Outcomes 7 • Papers presented in international conferences • Organization of a workshop on Educational Robotics 29 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 TERECop - 6° Meeting DEI UNIV PD © 2009 Outcomes 8 • 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 TERECop - 6° Meeting 29 DEI UNIV PD © 2009 Lessons learnt 9 • Teacher prefer practical activities with respect to theoretical lessons 29 • 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 offthe-shelf examples) • They show difficulties in organizing effective and well-integrated laboratorial activities TERECop - 6° Meeting DEI UNIV PD © 2009 Lessons learnt 10 • Some criticalities ● In Italy teachers of arts and humanities 29 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 TERECop - 6° Meeting DEI UNIV PD © 2009 Lessons learnt 11 • Suggestions ● Take into account the peculiar local school context 29 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) TERECop - 6° Meeting DEI UNIV PD © 2009 Future Projects 12 • 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 TERECop - 6° Meeting 29 DEI UNIV PD © 2009 The end 6º m TERECoP – 6° Meeting - M.Moro – DEI UNIPD - Italy