Welcome to the “FERTILE” Project
Αn Erasmus Plus KA2 partnership promoting contemporary pedagogies that embrace cross-disciplinary learning by integrating Educational Robotics (ER) with Arts towards cultivating Computational Thinking (CT) skills in a blended learning context.
Why?
The “FERTILE” project’s core mission is to support educators design Artful Educational Robotics (ER) projects for blended learning contexts.
Exploring the potential of integrating ER in a meaningful blended learning context by using ER simulators and enabling educators to co-design in a community platform holds the potential of promoting the post-pandemic digital transformation in education.
The main innovation of the “FERTILE” initiative lies in synthesizing Arts with Robotics to promote Computational Thinking. On the one hand, Arts as a discipline entails Computational Thinking, for example creating art involves problem-solving, representation of expression patterns, algorithm development, grasp the main idea of a literary text. On the other hand, physical or online robots can be considered a functional part of such processes; students create robots to represent behaviours, scenes, and motifs of poems or to describe a story in creative and out-of-the-box ways.
How?
Recent Project News
The “FERTILE” training in Greece started!
42 teachers from all levels of education, originating from either ER or Arts disciplines, participated in the first face-to-face session held in the UniWA premises on Saturday, November 9th 2024.
We thank all the participants for their enthusiastic participation in exploring the “FERTILE” initiative for interdisciplinarity in Educational Robotics and Art towards cultivating Computational Thinking skills.
It was a promising start for a comprehensive training!
Project Coordinator
Athens, GREECE
Valladolid, SPAIN
Madrid, SPAIN
Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
Bratislava, SLOVAKIA
