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A Workshop to Promote Arduino-Based Robots as Wide Spectrum Learning Support Tools

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Robotics in Education

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 457))

Abstract

This paper discusses the design of a workshop in Educational Robotics based on Arduino offered to fifty different classes in Italian schools, from primary school to high school. We provided different examples with two robotic platforms. We present some observations about the current conception of Educational Robotics among teachers and students and about the related problems in its introduction in schools. The paper includes a description of the proposed activities and a preliminary evaluation of the results.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the power and gas society Vivigas&Power, that supports the Officina Robotica project.

This work was also partly supported by the project: ERASM: Educational robotics as a validated mindtool: methodology, platforms, and an experimental protocol, code: CPDA145094, funded by the University of Padova.

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, University of Padova, Via Gradenigo 6/A-B, Padova, 35131, Italy

    Francesca Agatolio & Michele Moro

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  1. (PRIA), Practical Robotics Institute Austria (PRIA), Vienna, Austria

    Munir Merdan

  2. Practical Robotics Institute Austria , Vienna, Austria

    Wilfried Lepuschitz

  3. Practical Robotics Institute Austria , Vienna, Austria

    Gottfried Koppensteiner

  4. URPI FEI STU , Bratislava, Slovakia

    Richard Balogh

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Agatolio, F., Moro, M. (2017). A Workshop to Promote Arduino-Based Robots as Wide Spectrum Learning Support Tools. In: Merdan, M., Lepuschitz, W., Koppensteiner, G., Balogh, R. (eds) Robotics in Education. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 457. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42975-5_11

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