Program

Co-chairs

  • Dimitris Alimisis, European Lab for Educational Technology-EDUMOTIVA, Greece
  • Michele Moro, Dept. of Information Engineering, Univ. of Padova, Italy
  • Grzegorz Granosik, Lodz University of Technology, Poland

IAS-13 Chair

  • Emanuele Menegatti, Dept. of Information Engineering, Univ. of Padova, Italy

Agenda

8.00-8.45

Registration

8.45-9.00

Welcome

9.00-11.00

Oral presentations: session 1

9.00-9.15

Dimitris Alimisis, George Boulougaris - Robotics in physics education: fostering graphing abilities in kinematics

9.15-9.30

Gwen Nugent, Bradley Barker, Neal Grandgenett, Greg Welch - Robotics Camps, Clubs, and Competitions: Results from a U.S. Robotics Project

9.30-9.45

Dorit Assaf - Enabling Rapid Prototyping in K-12 Engineering - Education with BotSpeak, a Universal Robotics Programming Language

9.45-10.00

Ina Schiering, Arne Hitzmann, Reinhard Gerndt - Testing in Robotics Student Teams - A Case Study about Failure and Motivation

10.00-10.15

Soumela Atmatzidou, Stavros Demetriadis - How to Support Students’ Computational Thinking Skills in Educational Robotics Activities

10.15-10.30

Richard Balogh, Grzegorz Granosik, Valery Kasyanik, David Obdrzalek - Visegrad Robotics Workshop - different ideas to teach and popularize robotics

 

 

10.30-10.40

Poster session
The posters will be displayed at 10.00 and will be available until 12.30

Short presentations of posters:

Paola Lo Savio, Valentina Scaldaferro, Alda Baldan,
Emanuele Menegatti, Michele Moro - Experimenting and validating didactical activities in the third year of primary school enhanced by robotics technology

Heilo Altin, Alvo Aabloo, Gholamreza Anbarjafari - New Era for Educational Robotics: Replacing Teachers with a Robotic System to Teach Alphabet Writing

Gonzalo Zabala, Ricardo Moran, Gabriel Pérez, Sebastián Blanco, Matías Teragni - Mendieta: low cost platform for educational robotics

Igor Zubrycki, Grzegorz Granosik - Fundamentals of Robotics with MyModelRobot

Daniel López-Cazorla, and Martha-Ivón Cárdenas - Adding Code and Robotics to Curriculum: An Introduction to the Programming and Robotics for Kids with Special Educational Needs (KSEN)

10.40-10.50

 

11.00-11.30

Presentation by the winning school team of the Greek Robotics Olympiad 2014, teacher: Dimitris Moraitis, students: Stelios Agoropoulos,  Alexandros Lessis, Dimitris Eleutheriadis.

Coffee break

 11.30-12.45

 Oral presentations: session 2

11.30-11.45

Igor Zubrycki, Grzegorz Granosik - Interactive Robotics Workshop

11.45-12.00

Loredana Cacco, Michele Moro - When a Bee meets a Sunflower

12.00-12.15

Jessica Swenson, Ethan Danahy  Examining Influences on the Evolution of Design Ideas in a First-Year Robotics Project

12.15-12.30

Elisa Tosello, Roberto Bortoletto, Stefano Michieletto, Enrico Pagello, Emanuele Menegatti - An Integrated System to approach the Programming of Humanoid Robotics

12.30-12.45

Martin Kandlhofer, Gerald Steinbauer - Evaluating the impact of robotics in education on pupils' skills and attitudes

12.45-13.45

 Lunch

13.45-14.45

IAS-13 Plenary talk

 14.45-16.00

 Oral presentations: session 3

14.45-15.00

Andreas Bihlmaier, Michael Vollert, Heinz Wörn - The Herd of Educational Robotic Devices (HERD): Promoting Cooperation in Robotics Education

15.00-15.15

Jean-Daniel Dessimoz, Pierre-François Gauthey, Denis Leuba, John Didier - Robotics for Teaching Creative Activities in Primary and Secondary Schools - a Case Study

15.15-15.30

Karolína Mayerová, Michaela Veselovská - How We Did Introductory Lessons about Robot

15.30-15.45

Jessica Scolnic, Jessica Swenson - Teaching Creative Classroom Robotics through the Student Teacher Outreach Mentorship Program

15.45-16.00

Dave Catlin, John Woollard - Educational Robots and Computational Thinking

16.00-16.30

 Coffee break

 16.30-17.15

 Oral presentations: session 4

16.30-16.45

Amy Eguchi - Robotics as a Learning Tool for Educational Transformation

16.45-17.00
Paola Mengoli, Margherita Russo - Education with micro-robots and innovation in education

17.00-17.15

Gonzalo Zabala, Ricardo Moran, Sebastián Blanco - A new educational tool for Bioloid Kit

17.15-17.55

Discussion and conclusions

17.55-18.00

Farewell