An Educational Robotics Lab to Investigate Cognitive Strategies and to Foster Learning in an Arts and Humanities Course Degree

Gabriele, Lorella; Marocco, Davide; Bertacchini, Francesca; Pantano, Pietro; Bilotta, Eleonora

doi:10.3991/ijoe.v13i04.6962

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“…Nonetheless, the definition of these skills is still ongoing (Griffin, 2014). Similar approaches are adopted in the programming field (Tømte et al, 2015, Kafai andPeppler, 2011), as well as in the Do-It-Yourself field (Guzzetti et al, 2010;Bullock and Sator, 2015), in Digital Fabrication (Buechley and Eisenberg, 2008;Bilotta, Bossio, Pantano, 2010), and in Educational Robotics (Bilotta et al, 2009;Bertacchini et al, 2010;Gabriele et al 2012;Gabriele and Bilotta, 2013;Gabriele et al, 2017;, just to cite a few. In many countries, CT formal courses in educational practice for both students and teachers have been carried out, investigating educational implications and assessment (www.atc21s.org).…”

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Lesson Planning by Computational Thinking Skills in Italian Pre-service Teachers

Gabriele¹,

Bertacchini²,

Tavernise³

et al. 2019

Informatics in Education

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In the last years, a growing trend in different educational contexts focused on Computational Thinking (CT) skills acquisition for both in-service teachers and students. But very low attention has been paid to pre-service teachers' education in regards to CT skills. To solve this issue, an empirical experimentation has been carried out with141 Italian pre-service teachers, that attended at a programming course, with the following aims: 1) provide them the main coding concepts by using Scratch 2.0; 2) offer practical advice on how to design educational applications (apps) to be applied into school context; 3) assess their apps by applying an already existing methodology, useful to give them feedback on their programming expertise and CT skills. Empirical findings showed that most of the participants achieved a medium-high level of CT skills, combining both design and programming skills in their school internship. Moreover, they reported a sense of greater self-esteem in teaching practice and a great emotional response from kids.

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Lesson Planning by Computational Thinking Skills in Italian Pre-service Teachers

Gabriele¹,

Bertacchini²,

Tavernise³

et al. 2019

Informatics in Education

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“…Additionally, the process of planning, drafting, reviewing, and revising happens with a critical expository essay. Gabriele et al (2017) stated that the notion also centered on the strategy of self-questioning, forming imaginative illustrative visions, stimulating previous information, reading puzzling parts of texts, divining or reviewing a topic.…”

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Implementing Google Classroom-Based Cognitive Strategy of English for Specific Purposes

Prasetya¹

2021

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Pedagogical language has shifted dramatically and significantly in these recent pandemic eras. Lectures should be adjusted from the face-to-face teaching style into the online teaching environment. The study's purposes are to explore and investigate the availability of cognitive strategy to teach English in Google Classroom circumstances. This study employed the exploratory sequential mixed methods approach involving thirty-seven English lecturer in its mixed-method data collection stages. The study found the adaptability and acceptance of google classroom-feature in terms of collaborative strategic reading, peer-assisted learning strategies, transactional strategies instruction, and conceptoriented reading instruction. Google Classroom is compatible with an English online pedagogy setting for developing and enhancing English teaching and learning. English Lecturers would have the opportunity to apply and adjust the cognitive strategy for teaching procedure.

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“…This research project describes an optimization workflow which combines an EMO engine (Octopus, a Grasshop-per3D extension) with parametric design, ergonomic function, material consumption, static equilibrium and structural analysis (using Karamba3D) to accelerate the design cycle and systematically generate, evaluate and explore design option in faster manner respect to conventional design process. This type of workflow, in contrast with traditional practice, generate optimized 3D model computed parametrically and developed algorithmically [19,21,39,41]. Due to the large number of alternatives produced the solutions are presented by multi-dimensional plot often related to a matrix of semi render design representing the subspace of optimum solutions.…”

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The development and application of an optimization tool in industrial design

Demarco

Bertacchini

Scuro

et al. 2020

Int J Interact Des Manuf

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Designers are identified, in industry 4.0, as the professional figures that have to design well performing new object. In order to do this, it is necessary to take into account a series of properties called design objectives. Often the structural problem of new design is underestimated or even not considered. This can be a real problem because this objective is in competitive and in contrast with other design objectives. So, this can bring to substantial change in a design in the final phase and sometimes to the complete change. In this paper is presented an optimization workflow that adopt a Multi Objective Optimization engine so called “Octopus” and Karamba3D, that is a Finite Elements (FE) plug-in, typically used in structural simulations, these extensions run in a software: Grassopper3D, that is a parametric design tool. The workflow allows designers to explore a large range of solutions and at the same time permits to filter and sort the optimized models in order to analyze the tradeoff of the resultant solution space, both qualitatively and quantitatively. In such way designers can obtain easily a lot of information of the generate design and identify potential solution for immediate use or for further optimization. In this paper is analyzed a design problem of an ergonomic chair in order to provide the efficiency of the workflow. The design criteria and the structural problem for this type of design object are identified as the main optimization objectives in order to iteratively improve the design solutions.

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An Educational Robotics Lab to Investigate Cognitive Strategies and to Foster Learning in an Arts and Humanities Course Degree

Cited by 27 publications

References 17 publications

Lesson Planning by Computational Thinking Skills in Italian Pre-service Teachers

Lesson Planning by Computational Thinking Skills in Italian Pre-service Teachers

Implementing Google Classroom-Based Cognitive Strategy of English for Specific Purposes

The development and application of an optimization tool in industrial design

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