There is increasing talk of educational robotics, the development and use of learning environments based on robotic technologies, accompanied by educational material. EDUCATIONAL ROBOTICS: A GROWTH PATH TOWARDS THE FUTURE

What is educational robotics?

From childhood to secondary school, educational robotics is a topic that must be addressed and introduced in the classrooms and in the lives of children and young people. Because?

Over the years, robotics is undergoing a strong acceleration, which therefore allows us to imagine the important implications that knowledge from childhood can generate. And here is that educational robotics or microrobotics becomes a fundamental node, since, quoting the Politecnico di Milano :

“It is a teaching method of robotics, which allows you to learn through the creation of an educational robot, starting from scratch, through its programming and its development, passing through all the phases of the process.”

Through play and discovery, girls and boys, from an early age, learn the rudiments of this science that is taking hold and will somehow inhabit their future.

The teaching method is defined as didactic robotics and is based entirely on group work and precisely on play, with two results that are also useful in other areas:

• learning of collaborative work;
• focus on goals;
• learn through experience.

Our advice to managers, teachers and parents is to think about the introduction of this discipline in the educational institutions you live actively. The benefits will be really important.

Educational robotics: useful tools

Here are some of the didactic tools dedicated to educational robotics, present in our catalog:

• Thymio . A set with two texts, fundamental for the approach to the Thymio robot. A guide for the teacher, to learn about Thymio and to use it in daily teaching, and a text for students, with all the cards, detachable and customizable, to familiarize them with the robot and make the most of its potential.
• Kubo : With KUBO, educational robotics is simple and addicting! KUBO suggests 28 different lessons to be held in the classroom, as well as concept maps and other activities, all in Italian and downloadable for free. Teacher support materials are also available online, so that preparing an educational, constructive and engaging robotics course for children will be quick and easy.
• Cocci-coding . A ladybug-shaped robot that can introduce children to computational thinking and basic programming tasks.
• Cube . Wooden robot for kindergarten. The goal for the children is to help Cubetto move in space: just build a program by manipulating the colored blocks and inserting them on the board.
• Mouse tails . A board game with which to learn to code and develop logic, in which players must quickly think about the fastest route to take in order to win. It allows to understand the basic concepts of computer science and computational thinking.

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