03/01/2012 - News, Projects

Happy New Robotics Year! Very Special Greetings from School of Robotics and Philos' Academy

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Students with special needs have produced this video as one of their "assignments" for the 2011 classes on educational robotics. It is their way to send you a "Happy New Year". Each robot, each tale convey their feelings, commitment, and learning. Each robot featured in this video is very special: it tells a story about our students.

Educational robotics and autism: our experience at the center Philos

It was in discussing with teachers that we had understood the methodological importance of assigning the task to the autistic children: a) to clarify the assignment to them, and b) as a way to involve all the autistic children.

In the first three lessons we wanted to establish some good relationship with the children; furthermore, it was much easier for us to understand their needs.

We knew the difficulties involved in setting a definite methodology for autism. That is why we have limited our goal to organize a few rules for our educational robotics laboratories with autistic children trying to involve as many children as possible, each endowed with her/his creativity  and abilities.

It was very important to add the narration of stories to to work of assembling and programming the robots.

Following this important experiences, the educational center "La finestra sul mondo" decided to start a more structured project, beginning on September 2010.