Workshops

TERECoP Workshop
“Teaching with robotics:
didactic approaches and experiences”


Venice, November 3, 2008


INTRODUCTION TO THE WORKSHOP


PROGRAM

Chronis Kynigos, Black-and-white-box perspectives to distributed control and constructionism in learning with robotics

Javier Arlegui , Emanuele. Menegatti, Michele Moro, Alfredo Pina, Robotics, Computer Science curricula and Interdisciplinary activities

Soumela Atmatzidou, Iraklis Markelis, Stauros Dimitriadis, The use of LEGO Mindstorms in elementary and secondary education: game as a way of triggering learning    

Mike Doyle, Notes on a Scientific Foundation for Constructionism: with a note of some difficulties

Paolo Fiorini, Stefano Galvan, Loretta Giuliari, Laura Pighi, It Takes a Village... to do Science Education

Stassini Frangou, Kyparissia Papanikolaou, Liliane Aravecchia, Luc Montel, Silviu Ionita, Javier Arlegui, Alfredo Pina, Emanuele Menegatti, Michele Moro, Nello Fava, Stefano Monfalcon, Irene Pagello Representative examples of implementing educational robotics in school based on the constructivist approach

Jardón, P. Zafra, S. Martinez De La Casa, A Giménez  CEABOT: Nationalwide Little humanoid robots competition; rules, experiences and new challenges

Anthi Karatrantou, Chris Panagiotakopoulos, Algorithm, Pseudo-Code and Lego Mindstorms Programming

Emanuele Micheli, Marco Avidano, Fiorella Operto, Semantic and epistemological continuity in educational robots' programming languages

M. Stella De Michele, G. Barbara Demo, Simonetta Siega, A Piedmont School Net For a K-12 Small Robots Programming Project: Experiences in Primary Schools

Kyparisia Papanikolaou, Stassini Frangou, Dimitris Alimisis, Teachers as designers of robotics-enhanced projects: the TERECoP course in Greece

Janka Pekárová, Using a Programmable Toy at Preschool Age: Why and How?

Pavel Petrovic, Richard Balogh, Educational Robotics Initiatives in Slovakia

Sarantos Psycharis, Evi Makri-Botsari, Georgios Xynogalas, The use of Educational Robotics for the teaching of Physics and its relation to self-esteem

Gary S. Stager, A Constructionist Approach to Robotics


Chairmen

Prof. Dimitris Alimisis, Department of Education, School of Pedagogical and Technological Education, Patras, Greece, chair

Prof. Michele Moro, DEI (Dept. of Information Engineering), Univ. of Padova (Italy), local chair


Program committee:

Aravecchia Liliane, Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres d'Aix-Marseille, France

Arlegui Javier, Public University of Navarra, Spain

Balch Tucker, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Dagdilelis Vassilios, University of Macedonia, Greece

Ezpeleta Joaquin, University of Zaragoza, Spain

Kraetzschmar Gerhard K., Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University, Germany

Marciano Giovanni, IPSIA (Tech. and Profess. Superior Education Institute) Borgosesia, Italy

Menegatti Emanuele, University of Padua, Italy

Mikropoulos Tassos, The University of Ioannina, Greece

Montel Luc , Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres d'Aix-Marseille, France

Muscato Giovanni, University of Catania, Italy

Operto Fiorella, Scuola di Robotica, Italy

Papanikolaou Kyparissia, School of Pedagogical & Technological Education, Athens, Greece

Pina Alfredo, Public University of Navarra, Spain

Pretto Alberto, IT+Robotics, Italy

Ribeiro Fernando, University of Minho, Portugal

Sklar Elizabeth, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA