Short-Paper

Think-in-Coding. LEGO bricks for the development of European competencies in STEM topics

Autore/i

Elena Liliana Vitti, Margherita Maria Sacco and Alberto Parola,
Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca per la Digital Education Cinedumedia, Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze dell’Educazione, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italia

Abstract

Think-in-Coding is three-year research project that involves a Turin’s public school, and a group of Research Center Cinedumedia during curricular Technology classes. The didactic method is centered on four key points: 1) Cooperative Learning, 2) Think-Make-Improve, 3) Traditional Scientific Method to promote curiosity and motivation, 4) Digital Competences as cross-cutting objectives. Since the first year of collaboration, every researcher agree that are not the instruments by themselves that change reality and improve students’ performances, but the processes that involve the chosen tools. For this reason, Covid emergency do not represent an insuperable obstacle, but an occasion to prove the power of the school promoting more than ever digital skills.

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Keywords

STEM competencies, coding and robotics, construction science, renewable energy, predictive and imaginative ability, problem solving.

Track FabLearn Italy 2020

Robotica e Automazione nell’educazione curriculare e non curriculare, formale, non formale e informale.