Coding and Robotics on Maths through English Erasmus Project

Project Title

Coding and Robotics on Maths through English

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Coding and robotics have risen as basic skills for our students throughout Europe. Not being a general framework applicable for all European countries, some national, regional or from individual schools’ initiatives have appeared to try and close the gap between the vision and today’s starting point. This project, involving 6 different organisations from Belgium, Estonia, Italy, Poland, Spain and Turkey, can be set into this last group, but adding collaboration and internationalism as basic features. As it is related with developing digital skills, this project’s theme corresponds to one of the Erasmus+ priorities at European level.
The project objectives had a double aspect: on the one hand improve teachers’ competence in coding and robotics to allow them introduce new ways of teaching different subjects through coding and robotics; on the other hand, give the students a new and real point of view of what they are going to find as part of their future working environment, where many of the jobs they will apply for are not invented so far.
In the project have taken part six organizations (five schools, both public and private, and an association for teacher training) with a total of 38 teachers of primary and secondary education and teacher trainers directly involved. The schools involved have from 160 to 1700 students, with a total of aprox 4300 students and more than 250 teachers as the potential target audience of the project, with the added value of vertical scaffolding as the planned activities involved primary and secondary students and teachers simultaneously. This allowed us to implement innovative methodologies (mentoring, flipped classroom, blended learning, virtual collaboration in real time,…) that enriched our students learning experiences.

The set of activities can be grouped as follows: training of teachers in coding and robotics (developed in webinars and live sessions to achieve a basic common profile in order to implement coding related activities in the classroom); training of students in coding and robotics (differentiating primary and secondary students as their needs are different) ending this step with the creation by the secondary students of games with Math challenges for the primary students to be checked, solved and improved by providing feedback.
With all these, we obtained a set of results (activities, strategies, lesson plans, games…) that can be implemented in a regular basis in daily teaching and learning, scalable and aplicable to different subjects and topics and easily transferable to mainstreaming.
During the whole project, a collaborative webpage and a Facebook group have been used for following and results publishing purposes. These windows gave a way to open our project to the rest of the education community and will remain opened once the project has ended, ensuring long term following and accessibility to the results. On the other hand, we have had the opportunity to present our project in different international events, such as INTED2017 (International Education Technology and Development Conference) held in Valencia (Spain) on March 2017, SMART Special Needs Education Summit held in Postdam (Germany) on April 2017 and BETT2018 that will be held in London on final January 2018 (out of the active period of the project). In addition, we are commited to maintain our partnership for innovation after the project, opening it to new partners inside and outside of our countries.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 70935 Eur

Project Coordinator

SEK-Atlántico S.L. & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Istituto Comprensivo Valdagno 2
• Sehit Sait Erturk Ortaokulu
• Szkola Podstawowa Nr 1 im. Mikolaja Kopernika
• Võnnu Secondary School
• Association pour la Promotion de la Formation en cours de carrière dans l’enseignement non confessionnel