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University and Primary Schools Cooperation for Small Robots Programming

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Visioning and Engineering the Knowledge Society. A Web Science Perspective (WSKS 2009)

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In July 2007, in the Italian northwest region named Piedmont, a number of teachers and school headmasters created a School-Net for k-12 "Educational use of robotics". The School-Net aims at promoting Papert’s constructionism in a cooperative environment and at setting up a model of small robots programming activities integrated in standard curricula covered in k-12 school years. The project is based on the cooperation between the School-Net and the Computer Science Department of the Turin University for providing technical competences with mini-languages, designing and implementing program development environments pupils oriented and maintaining a community of practice supporting teachers during their activities with robots. Here we concentrate on primary school activities where educational aspects concerned by using small robots fill a long list with, of course, mathematics but also education to affectivity, creativity, communication, geography and others. Experiences from the project are here described.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Computer Science Department, University of Turin, c.so Svizzera 185, 10149, Turin, Italy

    G. Barbara Demo

  2. Istituto Comprensivo “Fogazzaro” di Baveno (VB), via Brera 12, 28831, Baveno, Verbania, Italy

    Simonetta Siega

  3. I Circolo Didattico Settimo Torinese, v. Buonarroti 8, 10036, Settimo Torinese, Italy

    M. Stella De Michele

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  1. Open Research Society, NGO, and American College of Greece, Gerakas Attikis, Greece

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  2. Dipartemento Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, Via Bramante 65, 26013, Crema, Italy

    Ernesto Damiani

  3. College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

    John M. Carroll

  4. College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

    Robert D. Tennyson

  5. ESSEC Business School, Cergy Pontoise Cedex, France

    David Avison

  6. KMR group at NADA/KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Lindstedtsv. 5, 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

    Ambjörn Naeve

  7. Creatifica Associates, Chelveston, Wellingborough, UK

    Adrian Dale

  8. University of Tampere, Finland

    Paul Lefrere

  9. School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Private Bag 92006, 1020, Auckland, New Zealand

    Felix Tan

  10. School of Business, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA

    Janice Sipior

  11. European Research Center for Information Systems, University of Münster, Leonardo Campus 3, 48149, Münster, Germany

    Gottfried Vossen

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Demo, G.B., Siega, S., De Michele, M.S. (2009). University and Primary Schools Cooperation for Small Robots Programming. In: Lytras, M.D., et al. Visioning and Engineering the Knowledge Society. A Web Science Perspective. WSKS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5736. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04754-1_25

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