ICT+Robotics+Ethics Choice of Educational Material and Subjects in Non Formal Learning Environment related to the level of intellectual development of students Erasmus Project

Project Title

ICT+Robotics+Ethics
Choice of Educational Material and Subjects
in Non Formal Learning Environment
related to the level of intellectual development of students

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

PROJECT
http://www.ict-robotic-ethic.de/index.htm.

CONTEXT
Obvious Self-Sabotating-Minus-Development of our One-Earth by uncontrolled growth of traffic and consumption of ressources triggered parallel targets of our project.

TARGETS
PRECEPTORS and STUDENTS need a curriculum, aiming at experience-based competences in ICT+ROBOTICs+ETHICs, because research and engineering must take responsibility for social, ecological or health consequences of decisions and constructions.

STRATEGY and ACTIVITIES
Our project line is marked by an advanced training course for preceptors in three steps:
1. Creating basics in technical questions, aiming at competences in one common system with common material: NonFormalLearning in ROBOTICs using LEGO®MINDSTORMS Education EV3, Didactical decisions, Methods, Inclusion, Media
2. Upgrading for differentiation and diversity in material and methods: Alternative Teaching Systems in ICT, AUTOMATISATION and ROBOTICs – Differentiation from Basical Knowledge up to Professional Requirements in Industry and Commerce
3. Conclusion of a conception for a successful follow up of this project: Hybrid-Conception for Teaching ICT+ROBOTICs+ETHICs and Connected Sciences
A parallel line was marked by periods of national work, enriched by transnational meetings for exchange of experiences and conception of next steps.
Physical meetings in Kaunas and Gdansk followed this strategy perfectly for generating the basis of our cooperation. Due to pandemic-caused cancelled physical meetings, our team created COVID-19- compliant circumstances, to hold the line of our application.
We provided equipment for students´ research at home.
Virtual meetings became main-communication-tools.
NonFormalLearningSurrounding provided a field of voluntary work, based on high motivation, following Seymour Papert: “Teaching means, to set the right surrounding for inventions, not to serve ready-to-use-knowledge!”
“Learning on the same subject” (Feuser) stands for expression and tool of inclusion: Keep parts in order, assemble parts to moduls, optimize a construction, develop and optimize a program, report the work in progress and result.
Team building activities became victims of COVID-19. Instead of carers class-teacher accompanied students with special needs by joining the almost weekly meetings or online-sessions. An autistic students contributed ideas by means of paintings instead of text.
Mature students operated as TUTORS as well for younger ones as for teachers, obvious during our meeting at KMUG (LT) in preparational courses for teachers.
This meeting and the following at CONRADINUM (PL) showed the emotion-powered potential of transnational face to face cooperation, enriched by visits in Universities, Rotobotic-Schools or Technical Institutions, not to forget cultural events for understanding each other better.
Our targets have been reached, because our original plan was, to cooperate in an IT-connected topic by means of IT-Tools. Students invented, constructed and programmed robots at home, exchanged ideas and results nationally and transnationally in ONLINE-MEETINGS accompanied by the coordinator. Same for consideration of ethics, economy, social and natural environment.

RESULTS
Project´s progress is equally its result by cooperation in development of didactics and methods, integrating students´ expertise. This is evaluated steadily by participants and externally.
We created a 3-D x-y-z-system for vectorial localization of topics within the project:
x: Horizontally to the right we follow a (time-determined) trace of LEGO®MINDSTORMS education EV3, different localy established systems like FISCHER-TECHNICs®, SIOSmodul bus®, FESTO® and SELF-MADE Systems.
z: Vertically up we localize differentiation in difficulty and complexity. Machines grow, tasks of programs become more and more difficult and complex. Reality takes place by industrial requirements.
y: Horizontally into the background depth of the educational scope we explore questions of ETHICs, social sciences, health, increasing prosperity, income gap, poverty, global-peace etc. in relation to use of ICT and ROBOTICs.

Some visible and tangible functional models, constructed by the students:
1. Safety Gadget
2. Welcome Robot
3. Line and hindrance orientated Vehicle
4. Uphill or Staircase Climber
5. Pull Challenge
6. Colour Distincting Sorter
7. Gripper
8. Segway
9. Star-Wars-Fighter
Constructions offered topics for discussing integrated sciences, engineering and social sciences, aiming at responsibility and ETHICs in research:
Advantages and risks of
– face-recognition
– robots as workers
– driverless car
– drones as weapons
– stock-trading

SUSTAINABILITY
Our website presents a sustainable likewise flexible project´s result:
EUROPEAN-EASY-TO-USE-CURRICULUM utilizing SIMPLE TECHNICAL MODULS at a REASONABLE PRICE including IMPLEMENTATION of ETHICs into ROBOTICs.
This is to be proved in future courses.
Additionally we offer internal and external trainings.

Project Website

http://www.ict-robotic-ethic.de/index.htm

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 33634 Eur

Project Coordinator

Holstentor-Gemeinschaftsschule & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Kauno Maironio universitetine gimnazija
• Szkoly Okretowe i Ogolnoksztalcace CONRADINUM
• Gymnasio Megala Kalyvia trikala