The second “FERTILE” training in Valladolid organised by the Universdad de Valladolid and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos!
The second Valladolid FERTILE training event was organized in a fully online format and it included four synchronous phases.
- Overview of FERTILE approach and computational thinking for 2 hours, held on Tue 14 Jan 2024
- Interdisciplinarity in Robotics and Art projects for 1 hour, held on Wed 15 Jan 2024
- Robotics projects in blended learning contexts for 1 hour, held on Thu 16 Jan 2024
- Overview of FERTILE design methodology and co-design of interdisciplinary projects through the FERTILE Community Platform for 2 hours, held on Tue 21 Jan 2025
Also, participants were involved in online asynchronous activities through videos and other online resources, and they elaborated their own interdisciplinary projects that were revised based on the assessment and feedback provided by the trainers.
Its primary scope 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. This training event complemented the first blended training event organized at Valladolid in November and December 2024.
28 Spanish educators from kindergarden and primary education, originating from either ER or Arts disciplines, participated in the fully online training event.
The trainers were:
- Lia García Pérez, assistant professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and member of the research team at
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos - Yannis Dimitriadis, professor at Universidad de Valladolid
- José María Cañas Plaza, professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
- Juan Ignacio Asensio Pérez, professor at Universidad de Valladolid
- David Roldán Álvarez, assistant professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
- Mohamed Saban, postdoctoral researcher at Universidad de Valladolid
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.
