Code Name Robot Erasmus Project

Project Title

Code Name Robot

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 2018

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

First of all it’s cooperated with different partners from europe which have coding classes or activities to improve their coding sikills under the coordination of Karatay directirote of national education .
In general, robotic materials and robots can be expensive. It absolutely requires technical and financial support at this time. Karatay District Directorate of National Education, allocated a substantial budget for roboticcoding training. In addition to İzzet Bezirci Elementary School whose MEVKA Project was accepted before, the support started with MEVKA projects in several other schools have continued with the financial support of the National Education Directorate and it changed into and applied as a wide robocoding Project.

By developing coding techniques for students whole roboticcoding for the first time, it’s aimed our target groups (mainly prmary school sudents are determined as the target group) gaining knowledge of software first, the algorithm, and the programming language training and finally coding skills. With this project, students and teachers had the chance to experience different coding training methodologies. They developed newcoding techniques by exchanging ideas. They synchronously performed the roboticcoding activities they planned. When doing the same activities, the studies took place in a tournament atmosphere and this motivated the students. One of the most concrete achievements of coding training was to reveal existing creative design talents. In the last decade, student-centered curriculum has gained weight. The activities that are appropriate to the interests and corecompetencies of the students were applied. There were many extra curricular activities in our pilot school, İzzet Bezirci Elementary School, but the most interesting and most favoure done was robotics coding training.

The importance of the algorithm in roboticcoding is great. Algorithm: The algorithm is a way to solve a problem or to achieve a specific goal. It is usually used in programming and all programming languages are based on algorithm. No matter which software language youuse, youneed an algorithm. Before you start software, you should place your fiction exactly. Algorithm has to have a meaning. If you set off without fiction, nowind can benefit you. Algorithms definitely finish with an end (happy or unhappy). There is no unfinalised algorithm. If an algorithm does not end, it is not an algorithm it is an infinite loop.

We can list the materials and systems to be used in coding training as follows.
Primarily LEGO Educationand WeDo 2.0 robots on a simple level, then EV3 and Scratch and finally top level Arduino areused in the coding training,
Arduino is a kind of electronic development card. It is an open source application. It is possible to see Arduino on all electronic devices. Arduino is an electronic motherboard. You can use it widely from robotic applications to simple electronic circuits. Encoding training beginning with LEGO will continue with robotic or tablet applications that perform very skilful function scoded on Ardunio.
For training of new individuals equipped with the skills of the 21st century instead of memorizing, questioning, not criticizinggenerations, it is planned to develop these skills at an early-age with coding training.
By seeing the coding training applied in our Italian, Portuguese Pollish and Croatian partners for many years, we observed and transfered the good practices there.

It was started the digitalization efforts Long before the pandemic process even if there are some hitchs, it was applied succesfuly with the partners schools

More and more schools in Europe are including robotics and computer programming lessons in the school curriculum. Is computer programming now a compulsory skill for the 21st century? At what age can children learn the programming language the earliest?
In some European countries, quick answers are given to these questions. Some European countries have even started to give basic training to primary school students. In fact, this project is an innovative, scientific project and als it’s a projet which added lots of new skills and concrete benefits to the students. These are ROBOKARATAY project (/https://www.robokaratay.com/roboKaratay) was intitated with the helps of national educational district of Karatay and lots coding classes were created in different schools with the help of Karatay municipality.
İzzet Bezirci primary school which was a pilot school, improved its robocoding studies via this project and became the winner of the national robocoding project which was done in Turkey.

Erasmus + will support individual learning opportunities and institutional collaborations in line with these purposes.
These statements are extremely suitable for our Project purposes.
When we consider that the Ministry of National Education will include coding as a compulsory lesson in the 5th and 6th grades and as an optional lesson in the 7th and 8th grades of secondary school in 2018-2019 academic year, we see how appropriate our project is for this plan.

Later they got the 3rd position in an international competiton named “World Educational Robots” compettion which was held in China (https://www.trthaber.com/haber/bilim-teknoloji/konyali-ogrenciler-cindeki-robot-yarismasinda-dunya-3uncusu-oldu-447120.html

In this success the addings of the project is undoubtful. Our project is not only seen via the success of Izet bezirci andd Karatay educational district of National education but also via the local successes of our other partners.

Our German partner which had newly started to work on coding via the project took the head as the first school doing ROBOCODING in Berlin. So even a German school which is also known as one of the most sucessful educations in the world had met the robocoding via this project https://www.bundeskanzlerin.de/bkin-de/aktuelles/kanzlerin-besuch-tumo-1983890)

Project Website

https://twinspace.etwinning.net/80864/home

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 134388 Eur

Project Coordinator

Karatay Ilce Milli Egitim Mudurlugu & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Katharina-Heinroth-Grundschule
• Istituto Comprensivo F.Masci
• Osnovna skola Janka Leskovara
• Lietuvos Sporto Universiteto Kedainiu “Ausros” progimnazija
• Izzet Bezirci Ilkokulu
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Vieira de Leiria
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 2 im. Marii Konopnickiej w Sycowie