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Ritella, Giuseppe; Loperfido, Fedela Feldia; De Giglio, Gianfranco; Scurani, Antonietta; Ligorio, Maria Beatrice – Dialogic Pedagogy, 2022
This article explores how the adoption of educational robotics, cloud-based animation software, and simplified visual programming software can provide valuable opportunities for dialogic interaction and learning. The potentialities of this type of activity are often overlooked in dialogic investigations. Based on empirical illustration, we discuss…
Descriptors: Robotics, Animation, Computer Software, Interaction
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Giannandrea, Lorella; Gratani, Francesca; Renieri, Alessandra – Research on Education and Media, 2020
This article reports on the results of a teacher training course in which 41 teachers, working together with three university researchers, experienced a different way to engage in meaningful teaching and learning activities in design, coding and robotics. The course was run in an Italian school during the lock-down period of the COVID-19…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Professional Development, Robotics, Programming
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Bartolini Bussi, Maria G.; Baccaglini-Frank, Anna – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2015
In early years schooling it is becoming common to propose activities that involve moving along paths, or programming robots to do so. In order to promote continuity towards the introduction of geometry in primary school, we developed a long-term teaching experiment (with 15 sessions) carried out over 4 months in a first grade classroom in northern…
Descriptors: Geometry, Geometric Concepts, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students