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One week: 122 Robotics events in Italy and 322 in Europe. The Fondazione Mondo Digitale has organized initiatives to promote Robotics as a tool for di 21st Century Education in Catania, Salerno and Rome.
On today’s L’Espresso: Prof Robot by Daniela Condorelli.
From practical laboratories for students to training workshops for innovating teachers, life skills, technology to fight isolation, multi-sectorial network for Robotics and learning by doing: these are the issues that the Fondazione Mondo Digitale will promote throughout Italy during the European Robotics Week.
On November 28 (9:00 am) at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Catania, Alfonso Molina, Professor of Technology Strategy and the University of Edinburgh and Scientific Director of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale, will participate in EtnaRobot, a workshop on Robotics in the Etna Valley that is promoted by DIEEI – University of Catania. Prof. Molina will present the experience of the National Network Agreement on Educational Robtoicssigned by 44 organizations ranging from primary schools to large companies and research centres.
On November 29, at the Carducci-Trezza Middle School in Cava De’ Tirreni, Prof. Michele Baldi, an Educational Robotics specialist, will hold a training workshop for local teachers that wish to experiment with learning by doing through the use of robotics in the classroom. The meeting will begin at 5:30 pm and is open to all primary and first-degree secondary school teachers.
On November 30, at the Secondo circolo didattico di Eboli, Headmaster Celestino Rocco will hold a Robotics laboratory for primary school students. The course will range from the bee-robot used to learn to move around to the intelligent Lego Mindstorm bricks that combine avant-garde construction and technology.
The cycle of events will conclude on December 2nd at the Istituto Santa Maria (Rome, viale Manzoni 5), one of the first Roman schools that will experiment inclusive didactics with “Robotics in School … Instructions”. Luigi Magni, the school rector, will open a study day dedicated to Educational Robotics with practical laboratories and demonstrations for students and teachers. The Expomed-Acquario of Rome will be present with 3D projections of marine robots.
For further information on the European Robotics Week: www.robotics-week.eu & http://euroweek.scuoladirobotica.eu/
The Genoa Robotics School was one of the first signatories of the Network Agreement – promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale - for the creation of a national, long-term strategy for educational robotics.
