18 July 2019 | Posted by Editorial Team GRETEL

An endearing robot that excites the younger ones

For second year in a row, La Salle Torreforta, La Salle Gràcia and La Salle Reus have enjoyed the support of robotics to early education teachers and first cycle of primary school on the initiative of the #EduEnginy program of La Salle Campus BCN.

#EduEnginy is a knowledge transfer project of La Salle Campus BCN (Universidad Ramon Llull) that promotes computational thinking, problem solving and engineering thinking through educational robotics, increasing the bonds between school and university.

The accompaniment was made by Elena Jurado, Albert Valls and Roger Olivella every month from September to June. The success of this is due to three main factors:

Accompaniment within the classroom promotes the confidence of the teachers as they gain autonomy by feeling supported at all times, while learning is much more vivid by "learning by doing".
The selected robot, the Kibo, without screens, with wooden blocks and detachable sensors with shapes of the human senses, has demonstrated according to diverse studies to be a good tool for the learning of the computational thought and the programming in early ages.
The STEAM methodology used, based on social learning, active methodologies and transversality of the curriculum, has made possible a teaching with a gender perspective and inclusive, encouraging creativity and stimulating emotions, essential for any significant cognitive process.

Girls and boys have learned a lot while having fun. Some of them even claim that it is already their favorite subject. The next course is expected to also open the line of curricular accompaniment to Primary Education for the schools that request it.

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