Robots for STEM: building, teaching and learning Erasmus Project

Project Title

Robots for STEM: building, teaching and learning

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

STEM areas (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) are continuously growing, but the number of technical workers does not accompany that
growth. As the 21st century has brought new challenges, students should be prepared for increasingly complex life and work environments that will
privilege proficiency in Learning and Innovation Skills that include Creativity and Innovation, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, Communication
and Collaboration [Framework for 21st Century Learning, 2017]. Also, the need to continuously explore new pedagogical practices in teaching and
learning creates an opportunity to shape new contents by balancing a stable and tested curriculum with new tools that stimulate creativity, allowing
students to understand better the world they live in.
This project will develop a low-cost mobile robotic kit aimed at children and adolescents from 10 to 13 years of age, designed to work as an
interdisciplinary teaching tool that can be applied directly to a curriculum, promoting students’ technical skills and allowing them develop new skills like
Computational Thinking and Problem Solving, driven by the motivation created by a Robotics Competition.
The methodology will consist of developing a collaborative training plan for the teachers involved in the project. Then a training course will also be made
based on the plan developed by all partners and will be put into practice with these teachers. During the training process, it is intended that interventions
in an educational context may be the object of collaborative reflections that respond to the project objectives. Then, teachers will apply what they have
learned with their students, analyse their pedagogical practices, reflect and share with the partners.
During the course planning and execution, the partners will create teaching and learning toolkits explaining the new robotic kit and with activities and
pedagogical practices with innovative educational scenarios for teachers and students. The partnership will also have a book that reports the teachers’
experiences and students’ perceptions on their pedagogical practices during the process.
The importance of transnationality is mainly related to the richness that the diversity of pedagogical practices already existing in each of the countries
involved can bring to all partners in this project. It is also believed that experiencing this new teaching methodology in such differentiated places will
create per se a unique set of challenges and opportunities in each context that can be so enriched by the group that the application of the model becomes
more effective in all contexts. The personal, cultural and linguistic richness that will be brought to all actors directly or indirectly involved is also evident, providing a highly enriching personal and academic growth/development.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 235129 Eur

Project Coordinator

Gondensino – Estabelecimento de Ensino Particular, LDA & Country: PT

Project Partners

• Searchlighter Services Ltd
• MAKE IT PEDAGOGICAL
• IC BARAGIANO
• Cetin Sen Bilim ve Sanat Merkezi
• M.Slanciausko progimnazija
• Osnovna skola Augusta Senoe