Exchange of ICT practices: Java robot programming in a European context Erasmus Project

Project Title

Exchange of ICT practices: Java robot programming in a European context

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

In the project „Exchange of ICT practices: Java robot programming in a European context“ we would like to introduce object-oriented programming to robotics classrooms in Europe. This concept can be applied to Lego EV3 mindstorms robots which are are widely distributed in schools in entire Europe and North America. The Fraunhofer Institute in Germany with its robotics initiative „Roberta“ has been promoting object-oriented programming, a de facto programming standard in application and web application programming, since 2014. We would like to have this institute as our partner for a first kick-off meeting in Munich in September 2019 where we would host a teacher workshop to learn about the possibilites of programming the Lego EV3 mindstorms robots with Java (an object-oriented language).
In addition, cultural trips are planned to learn about German and Bavarian heritage.
This knowledge is then taken away to start the projects in the participating schools with their respective ICT students. They are learning to use Java on EV3 robots and will receive background information on the cultural background of the participating schools via etwinning. On this platform they also get to know their future team partners by exchanging information on their personal background and preferences.
After having received programming knowledge, the students will be selected to travel to the first student meeting where cultural workshops are hosted in order to get an idea about what kind of robotic task they want to program.
The task itself should reflect the cultural differences and similarities of the enganged countries as the robot should execute a cultural task such as performing a traditional dance, preparing a national dish or interpreting national road signs (examples). The students share their ideas on etwinning and start programming in transnational teams of 2-3 students sharing their code on collaboration platforms such as github or alike.
In order to present their first results a second student meeting will be held where the ideas and the coding process will be presented. In addition, we will also use the occasion to get to know the robotics premises of the hosting school and exchange ideas about competitions and robotic challenges. The students will share the presentations and coding challenges via etwinning for the students who stayed at home.
As a final and permanent result the project will prepare a print and online documentation which will highlight the innovative project ideas that the students created. Due to its representational character, emphasis will be put on a professional layout and content as it will be disseminated not only throughout our schools´ networks but also in teacher training institutions.

Project Website

https://twinspace.etwinning.net/96054/home

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 11698 Eur

Project Coordinator

Luitpold Gymnasium München & Country: DE

Project Partners

• 2o Gymnasio Samou
• Agrupamento de Escolas D. Dinis, Lisboa
• Liceo Scientifico Statale “E. Fermi” Ragusa