Education in & with Robotics to Foster 21st-Century Skills

This book includes papers presented at the International Conference Educational Robotics in the Maker Era EDUROBOTICS 2020, Online, February 2021.
The contributions cover a variety of topics useful for teacher education and for designing learning by making activities for children and youth, with an emphasis on modern low-cost technologies (including block-based programming environments, Do-It-Yourself electronics, 3D printed artifacts, the use of intelligent distributed systems, the IoT technology, and gamification) in formal and informal education settings.
This collection of contributions (17 chapters and 2 short papers) provides researchers and practitioners the latest advances in educational robotics in a broader sense focusing on science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) education. Teachers and educators at any school level can find insights and inspirations into how educational robotics can promote technological interest and 21st-century skills: creativity, critical thinking, team working, and problem-solving with special emphasis on new emerging making technologies.

Focuses on current learning and training needs in robotics from pre-school age to universities and on the development of a sustainable framework to promote education in robotics and with robotics including curricula and resources for school & higher education that will support the development of the 21st-century skills for youth Collects the papers presented at EDUROBOTICS 2020 conference Emphasizes the role of robotics as learning object and tool in the frame of the STEAM education and in the light of learning theories and methodologies suggested by Constructivism and Constructionism and the currently emerging in education maker movement Provides an insight into the latest state-of-the-art in educational robotics to the community (academia, schools, and industry) Written by experts in the field

Klappentext

This book includes papers presented at the International Conference Educational Robotics in the Maker Era EDUROBOTICS 2020 , Online, February 2021. The contributions cover a variety of topics useful for teacher education and for designing learning by making activities for children and youth, with an emphasis on modern low-cost technologies (including block-based programming environments, Do-It-Yourself electronics, 3D printed artifacts, the use of intelligent distributed systems, the IoT technology, and gamification) in formal and informal education settings. This collection of contributions (17 chapters and 2 short papers) provides researchers and practitioners the latest advances in educational robotics in a broader sense focusing on science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) education. Teachers and educators at any school level can find insights and inspirations into how educational robotics can promote technological interest and 21st-century skills: creativity, critical thinking, team working, and problem-solving with special emphasis on new emerging making technologies.

Inhalt
Section 1 New developments in Educational robotics.- Fostering students' problem-solving skills through educational robotics in primary school.- Why educational robotics may support teachers to discover, to develop and to promote students' talent: the GIF4T approach.- Robotics Education under COVID-19 Conditions with Educational Modular Robots.- Distance Learning in the Era of COVID-19: Supporting Educational Robotics with Augmented Reality.- Mendieta, one Robot per School: Multi-user Robot for Technology Education.- Children's debugging processes and strategies with a simulated robot: A case study.- AI-Robotics and AI literacy.- Section 2 Social robots.- The socially assistive robot Daisy Promoting Social Inclu-sion of children with ASD.- Edu`, a robotic companion in pediatric protective isolation units.- Development of a robotic agent for increasing elderlies socialization.- Section 3 Education in and with inclusive robots.- Exploiting VR and AR technologies in education and training to Inclusive Robotics.- Educational robotics curricula: current trends and shortcomings.- Dance & Robots: Designing a Robotics-enhanced project for dance-based STEAM.- Education Using ENGINO.- Robots entering the care sector The case of a new curriculum for the education of assistant nurses in Sweden.- Section 4 New studies and methodological issues in educational robotics.- Educational Robotics Acceptance by Italian Teachers, Educators, Psychologists and.- Psychotherapists.- Teachers' reasons to join a community about educational robotics and STEAM: a Swiss experience.- There is no such thing as a trial and error strategy.- Educational Robotics: School to University, Examples of Interconnected Longitudinal Individual Student Routes.- ploring the Use of Educational Robotics in primary school and its possible place in the curricula.