The first “FERTILE” training in Slovakia organised by Comenius University!
The first Slovak FERTILE training event was organised in a blended format at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia (https://fmph.uniba.sk/) and it included one face-to-face phases, three face-to-face phases, and two online synchronous phases. During the face-to-face the trainees were introduced to the following topics:
- Introduction to the FERTILE Project. Computational Thinking. Interdisciplinarity in Robotics and Art projects – April 19, 2024 (3 hours)
- Integrating Educational Robotics and Art – workshop, hands-on activities, initial concept for their own Artful Educational Robotics Project – May 4th, 2024 (3 hours)
- Overview of FERTILE design methodology, ER simulators and co-design of interdisciplinary projects through the FERTILE Community Platform – October 26, 2024 (3 hours online synchronous)
In between these phases, participants were involved in online asynchronous activities through videos and other online resources, and they elaborated their own interdisciplinary projects that were presented during an online phase (June 14-15, 2024. The projects were revised based on the peer review and assessment and feedback provided by the trainers.
The primary scope of the training was to empower educators to design interdisciplinary projects that combine Educational
Robotics and Arts, aiming to cultivate students’ Computational Thinking skills in a blended learning context.
23 Slovak educators from primary, lower and upper secondary education, originating from either Informatics or Arts disciplines, participated in the training event
The trainers were:
- Karolína Miková, associate professor at Comenius University in Bratislava
- Zuzana Kubincová, professor at Comenius University in Bratislava
- Jakub Krcho, PhD. Student at Comenius University in Bratislava
We thank all participants for their enthusiastic participation in exploring the “FERTILE” initiative for interdisciplinarity in Educational Robotics and Art towards cultivating Computational Thinking skills.
