Inclusive Didactics

 

"Robotics Against Isolation” is a project promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale with the support of Google to promote scholastic integration and social inclusion by using educational robotics with disabled young students.

 

Four schools in the Province of Salerno and four in the Province of Rome concluded their activities at the end of this school year.

 

The programme identified educational robotics as a didactic model providing innovation, education and inclusion. Teachers, school administrators, students and the local community participated in the social inclusion of the most fragile students, starting from school.

 

Robots served as playmates and teachers allowing the students to learn by doing and involving them directly in the activities. Cooperative work was used to stimulate the participation of all the students, who coordinated by a Robotics teacher, were able to experiment group solutions to the problems at hand.

 

Besides the specific manuals, the didactic model also uses real robots ranging from the bee robot that helps children to develop their sense of logic, to count and to move in space, to the WeDo Construction Kit that allows students to experience hands-on didactic issues, find alternative solutions and work in a group, to Lego Mindstorm, a programmable brick that can be used to learn programming and stimulate creativity.

 

While both students and teachers developed a variety of reports, questionnaires and research, the Fondazione Mondo Digitale created many opportunities for networking and sharing knowledge amongst participants.

 

It was a true success of the importance of innovative and inclusive didactics.

 

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