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Fostering computational thinking through educational robotics: a model for creative computational problem solving

Francesco Mondada, Alberto Piatti, Christian Giang

Background: Educational robotics (ER) is increasingly used in classrooms to implement activities aimed at fostering the development of students’ computational thinking (CT) skills. Though previous works have proposed different models and frameworks to desc ...

2020

Urgency

Dieter Dietz, Julien Lafontaine Carboni, Lucia-Nieves Garcia de Jalon Oyarzun, Teresa Sze Wing Cheung

In a time when the depletion of reason seems to have become a normality—and a fundamental disruption of the ecosystem forecasts its imminence through abnormal climate events—the question that comes to mind, first and foremost, is about the foundations of s ...

Birkhäuser2020

Developing teacher agency through dialogue

Roland John Tormey

Based on the experiences of a group of mainstream primary teachers of English-as-an-additional-language (EAL) learners in Ireland, a dialogic inquiry has the potential to influence perceptions regarding teacher agency. The participants examined their pract ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Iterative Classroom Teaching

Pierre Dillenbourg, Volkan Cevher, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Shuqing Teresa Yeo, Louis Pierre Faucon, Kamalaruban Parameswaran

We consider the machine teaching problem in a classroom-like setting wherein the teacher has to deliver the same examples to a diverse group of students. Their diversity stems from differences in their initial internal states as well as their learning rate ...

ASSOC ADVANCEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE2019

On the Use of Gaze as a Measure for Performance in a Visual Exploration Task

Pierre Dillenbourg, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach

Visual exploration skill acquisition is important for many vocational professions, yet many apprentices struggle to acquire these skills, impacting both their grades and practical work. Traditionally, the learning of visual skills is facilitated through ex ...

Springer2019

On the Use of Gaze as a Measure for Performance in a Visual Exploration Task

Pierre Dillenbourg, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

Interactive Teaching Algorithms for Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Volkan Cevher, Kamalaruban Parameswaran

We study the problem of inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) with the added twist that the learner is assisted by a helpful teacher. More formally, we tackle the following algorithmic question: How could a teacher provide an informative sequence of demonst ...

2019

Interactive Teaching Algorithms for Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Volkan Cevher, Kamalaruban Parameswaran

2019

Using Educational Data From Teaching And Learning To Inform Teachers’ Reflective Educational Design In Inquiry-Based STEM Education

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education is recognized as a top priority for school education worldwide and Inquiry-based teaching and learning is identified as one of the most dominant approaches. To effectively engage individual ...

2019

The Teaching Toolkit: design of a one-day pedagogical workshop for engineering graduate teaching assistants

Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac, Cécile Hardebolle

Through their role in labs, exercise/recitation sessions and tutorials, graduate or doctoral teaching assistants play a significant role in the education of engineering students. Yet doctoral assistants frequently get little pedagogical training, what trai ...

2019

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