La Salle shows university life to youngsters during the University Demoweek, from 17 to 19 January 2017
La Salle University Demoweek is a week (January 17-19) when La Salle Campus Barcelona-URL organizes a range of workshops and free lectures for students (high school and vocational training), schools and teachers, so they can be in touch with reality of university studies and thus have tools to help them choose their pathway to university.
The workshops will be held for the following areas: Architecture, Engineering, Animation & VFX and Management, and will allow young people to have a clear idea of how they can be trained at La Salle throughout their university life. Attendees will learn these areas through workshops in the following fields: digital entrepreneurship, animation and visual effects, pet robots and artificial intelligence, how to produce a video game, Radiolab, Apps Inventor to create an application for Android, the tightrope walker robot, building a LEGO Mindstorms robot and ethical hackers. In addition, there will be specific discussions about why to study a degree in one of these four areas, and conferences to develop skills for the future on issues such as the maker movement (why to do physical things in the digital era), how to develop a business based on an idea and the new professions in which we will work in 15 years.
Looking ahead to teachers, there will be specific sessions where new methodologies applied to training will be explained. One of these will talk about gamification, and will be a workshop where resources and practical models on different innovative teaching methods that can be entered easily to increase student motivation will be provided. Another will be on STEAM classroom methodology, analyzing the difficulties encountered in schools to incorporate important advances in robotic platforms and to develop interdisciplinary projects, proposing practical solutions and seeing success stories and educational guidelines. The last workshop for teachers will focus on design thinking in education, an approach of innovation focused on the human being that will help students to think of new and different way.
You can consult all the information and register here