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A Bebras Computational Thinking (ABC-Thinking) program for primary school: Evaluation using the competent computational thinking test

Bebras tasks are considered to develop Computational Thinking (CT) and are currently used for this purpose in many studies. However, the relationship between Bebras tasks and CT is recent and, given the scarcity of validated instruments for assessing CT th ...

New York2024

The Domestic Turn: Politics of Education from New College to The Palazzo Della Sapienza

Marson Korbi

Student accommodation became a problem only a century after the foundation of the first universities in Europe in the 12th century. At the very beginning students had to provide their own lodgings autonomously. In many university cities the situation prove ...

2023

The CT-cube: A framework for the design and the assessment of computational thinking activities

Francesco Mondada, Alberto Piatti, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy

Computational thinking is a fundamental competence that is being introduced in K-12 and succeeding curricula worldwide. Despite this huge effort, many computational thinking models in the literature do not explicitly take into consideration the pupils’ age ...

2022

Conditions of habitability in a Persistent Company Town. Rethinking the industrial cities and their productive habitats

Anna Karla De Almeida Milani

A company town can be defined as a settlement completely owned by an entrepreneur or a company, which builds and manages the community following business and production needs, coordinating all the facilities, including the houses, stores, the school, and e ...

2022

Embedding digital technologies in the school practice: Schools as agents of technology integration

Caroline Pulfrey

Whilst digital education is becoming a reality for schools there isa role for CCI research to move beyond researcher-led school en-gagements to other types of research that support schools and theirsta to lead on the appropriation of digital technologies. ...

2022

A Robotic Teacher Community to Foster the Integration of Educational Robotics in School

The digital society requires the acquisition of skills related to computer sciences like computational thinking or competences in coding. Also transversal competences like communication, collaboration and creativity are increasingly important. Educational ...

Springer, Cham2021

A computer science and robotics integration model for primary school: evaluation of a large-scale in-service K-4 teacher-training program

Francesco Mondada, Frédérique Michèle Chessel-Lazzarotto, Jean-Philippe Pellet, Barbara Bruno, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy

Integrating computer science (CS) into school curricula has become a worldwide preoccupation. Therefore, we present a CS and Robotics integration model and its validation through a large-scale pilot study in the administrative region of the Canton Vaud in ...

2020

Learning (Good Handwriting In Greek) By Teaching (A Humanoid Robot)

Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Thanasis Hadzilacos

We report on a follow-up study of the Co-Writer project at EPFL [1]; we confirm their findings, extend the applicability to another language with a different alphabet (Greek) and go into an in-depth qualitative study of the child-robot relationship. The co ...

IATED-INT ASSOC TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT2020

Heuristics for the Development and Evaluation of Educational Robotics Systems

Francesco Mondada, Alberto Piatti, Christian Giang

Contribution: While previous research has studied the use of educational robotics in classrooms, there is still a lack of methods to support the development and evaluation of such tools. To this end, this paper presents an evaluation framework and a corres ...

2019

EPFL scientists head to Antarctica to study snow and icecaps

Sandrine Perroud

EPFL scientists will soon be heading off to Antarctica, where they will spend four months collecting reams of meteorological data at Australia’s Davis research station. You can follow their progress on the school’s blog: EPFL Out There. ...

2018

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