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One of the main difficulties that students face in physic courses in secondary school is the lack of interest about theoretical problems. Educational robotics have the potential to be used as powerful educational tools to motivate students. Nevertheless, learning activities with robotics kits are usually isolated from official curriculum. In fact, there is usually no evaluation about student learning outcomes in these activities. In this paper, we present IDEE, a learning environment that, through a visual programming environment and a robotic kit, proposes to the students a set of learning activities following a scientific procedure approach. All the interaction data about the performance of students is stored in a database. This information makes it possible to adapt the statements of the problems to the profiles of the students, while allowing support to teachers in the assessment of the learning process.
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This paper has been supported by the Italian Ministry “Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Universitá e della Ricerca”, MIUR under law 488/2001.
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Orlando, S., Gaudioso, E., de la Paz, F. (2019). IDEE: A Visual Programming Environment to Teach Physics Through Robotics in Secondary Schools. In: Lepuschitz, W., Merdan, M., Koppensteiner, G., Balogh, R., Obdržálek, D. (eds) Robotics in Education. RiE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 829. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97085-1_24
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