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Book: Teacher Education on Robotics-Enhanced Constructivist Pedagogical Methods

Editor: Dimitris Alimisis

Published 2009 by School of Pedagogical and Technological Education (ASPETE)

ISBN 978-960-6749-49-0

This book is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License

Table of Contents	Authors
Prologue
Chapter 1: Constructionism and Robotics in education	Dimitris Alimisis, Chronis Kynigos
1.1. Introduction
1.2 Controlling and constructing robots as a constructionist environment
1.3 Robotic technologies: from floor Logo turtles to Lego Mindstorms
1.4 Robotics in School Settings
1.5 Educational Robotics beyond School Settings: Competitions and other Events
1.6 Competitions or Exhibitions?
1.7 The role of teachers and the TERECoP project
Chapter 2: robotics as learning object	Javier Arlegui, Nello Fava, Emanuele Menegatti, Stefano Monfalcon, Michele Moro, Alfredo Pina
2.1 Methodological Aspects for a Constructivist Teaching and Learning of Robotics
2.2 Some reasons to use Lego Mindstorms NXT
2.3 Straight-line robots
2.4 Sensorized robots
2.5 Turning robots
2.6 Data logger
Chapter 3: robotics as learning tool
3.1 A methodology for designing robotics - enhanced activities	Kyparisia Papanikolaou, Stassini Frangou
3.2 A representative example: “The BusRoute” project	Stassini Frangou
Chapter 4: Teacher Training Course in Introducing Robotics in the Curriculum - The TERECoP Project Proposal
4.1 The training methodology	Kyparisia Papanikolaou, Stassini Frangou
4.2 Course curriculum outline	Stassini Frangou,Kyparisia Papanikolaou, Dimitris Alimisis
4.3 Training materials	Stassini Frangou, Kyparisia Papanikolaou, Dimitris Alimisis
4.4 Monitoring and Evaluation of the Training Course	Dimitris Alimisis, Stassini Frangou, Kyparisia Papanikolaou
4.5 Experiences and recommendations from the training courses implemented in Athens	Dimitris Alimisis, Stassini Frangou, Kyparisia Papanikolaou
4.6 Experiences from the TERECoP course at the Charles University in Prague	Daniel Tocháček
Chapter 5: exemplary projects and examples of learning activities with robotics
5.1 Two projects proposed by French teachers-trainees	Liliane Aravecchia, Luc Montel
5.2 Robotics-based educational tool for an airplane servo-loop model	Silviu Ionita
5.3 The Planet	Michele Moro
5.4 The Lunar Lander	Michele Moro
Chapter 6: Useful Resourses for Teachers & Students	Kyparisia Papanikolaou, Stassini. Frangou
6.1 TERECoP publications
6.2 Other proposed literature
Appendix 1 LegoMindstorms NXT (hardware and software)	Michele Moro
Appendix 2 A textual description language equivalent to the NXT-G graphical language	Michele Moro

Robotics in School Education (Review of research literature and of the existing situation in the 6 participating countries)

Study: A methodology for designing robotics-enhanced constructivist learning for secondary school students: basic principles, learning objectives and strategies

Study: A methodology for designing robotics-enhanced constructivist learning for secondary school students: appropriate technology-based environment

Study: A methodology for designing robotics-enhanced constructivist learning for secondary school students: the bus route

Study: Methodology for evaluation and assessment of the learning activities

Pilot training curriculum

Pilot training materials 1

Pilot training materials 2

Pilot training materials 3

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