06/09/2011 - Articles, Lectures
Bulgaria: Educational robotics presented at the International Conference "Key Competencies in Education".
Reading time: 1 minuteStara Zagora (Bulgaria), 22-24 of September, 2011. During the international conference on "The Key Competencies in Education. Strategies and Practices", and in the frame of the KeyTTT European project, Europole Network and School of Robotics are introducing their paper on educational robotics as a fruitful methodology feeding pupils' competencies.
Prof. Tullia Urschitz (Middle School "Lorenzi", Fumane, Verona, Italy) and Emanuele Micheli (School of Robotics) submitted a paper on "Educational Robotics: A Methodology to Develop Competences", in the frame of the European Project KeyTTT. It was accepted and it will be presented during the "The Key Competencies in Education - Strategies and Practices", 22–24 September, 2011 in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.
Here below the paper's Abstract:
"Educational robotics, that is the teaching methodology that involves the use of robotics to generate competences in regular curricula, has the aim to involve students of all ages, from kindergarten to high school, in the study of scientific and technological subjects with a new approach. Learning emerges from cooperative working, from a new role of the teacher, who becomes simply a facilitator of the learning process. Educational robotics introduces a new concept of error, considered as an incentive to do better. Robotics involves students with different cultures, linguistic heritage, age, learning styles. Educational robotics is extremely inclusive: talented students and students with learning difficulties can easily work together in designing, engineering and programming small robots.Moreover students can show their different kind of intelligences, their abilities. Educational robotics can easily find a place in traditional math and science curricula to develop key competences: it increases learning motivation, the use of a proper language, the growing of mathematical, scientific and digital skills, helps to develop entrepreneurship."