Computational thinking and robotics in education

García-Peñalvo, Francisco José; Conde, Miguel Á.; Gonçalves, José; Lima, José

doi:10.1145/3362789.3362957

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“…They have multiple publications related to digital technology in education and eLearning. The group also researches aspects related to computational thinking for pre-university studies, as can be seen in a recent publication that analyzes the use of computational thinking and robotics in education [18].…”

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Methodological guide for the successful use of digital technologies in education

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García‐Peñalvo

2020

Eighth International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality

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The purpose of this article is to set out the research plan for the doctoral thesis, which deals with the denition of a methodological guide for the successful use of digital technologies in education, especially in eLearning, taking as a reference European educational projects that have been successful in achieving an improvement in the teaching and learning process. We live in an increasingly digital society that requires citizens to be prepared to adapt to the needs of the moment and to solve the problems that arise. For this to be possible, the education system must be prepared to adequately train future citizens who will join a changing labor market. To this end, teachers must be trained and know how to carry out ecient educational projects that allow them to make the most of the potential of ICT in the classroom or in distance education. The situation experienced during the 2019-2020 school year with the COVID-19 pandemic has tested the education system and its ability to adapt to a situation where the use of distance education was required and where ICT was very much needed in most of the cases to bring education to the homes. These factors make it very necessary to work for a better teaching professionalization. Therefore, the main objective of this PhD work is to enable teachers to design their projects, involving electronic learning, in a more eective way. To achieve this, what better than to use the educational projects compiled in the Erasmus+ results platform, which allow the analysis of project typology, outcomes, topics and to see those that have been catalogued as a good practice or success story. This database will be a key tool to gather information together with the collaboration of the main actors of those projects that have been successful. A methodological guide would allow teachers and teacher trainers to know the key factors that help to achieve a good design of educational projects and allow an optimal use of ICT resources and the greatest impact on the teaching-learning process.

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Methodological guide for the successful use of digital technologies in education

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García‐Peñalvo

2020

Eighth International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality

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Overview of European educational projects on eLearning and related methodologies

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García‐Peñalvo

2020

Eighth International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality

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Collecting data from Erasmus+ projects related to eLearning and the associated methodologies in order to detect those that have been identied as good practice or success story could be very useful in order to help teachers to dene success projects in that eld. In order to compile projects of interest, we have the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform, which has a very useful information database to locate educational projects that have been funded by the European Union. This database compiles European educational projects that have been developed in Erasmus+ and also in previous programs such as Lifelong Learning Programme since 2007. The advantage of using this tool is that it has a search engine that allows you to search by keywords and has dierent criteria to lter. It also allows you to export up to a maximum of 1000 projects per search in excel format with basic data from the ltered projects. Therefore, using this tool is key to be able to identify good practices in European educational projects that serve as a reference to nd the parameters useful for learning improvement. This article presents the main data collected from the analysis of educational projects that are connected with eLearning and related methodologies in the aforementioned platform. It also denes which ones will be selected to be able to address an adequate analysis that is manageable to carry out the denition of a methodological guide. As a result of the initial analysis, it is considered appropriate to carry out a review of the projects linked to eLearning in KA1 and KA2 actions that have more than 50 projects connected to this topic, involving educational centers, and that are labelled as good practice and / or success story. With the projects that meet these criteria, there is enough information to achieve the objectives of the research in order to be able to design a methodological guide with the key aspects for implementing eLearning projects.

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“…From its first edition of this track at TEEM Conference in 2016 (and with the 2021 edition, there are now six editions of this track [38][39][40][41][42]), the objective is to encourage discussion to define the limits and usefulness of CT while defending the teaching of the basics of computer science in the context of a specific subject [43].…”

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