The Slovak research team conducted a pilot study at Comenius University in Bratislava from January 20, 2024, to February 12, 2024. The participants were 20 teachers from all over Slovakia. Half were informatics teachers, and the other half taught an Arts subject. The participants used the “FERTILE” training materials to get acquainted with the “FERTILE” …
Pilot Study conducted by CUB, Slovakia – Jan 2024 Read More »
The “FERTILE” consortium proudly presents the initial “FERTILE” community platform available at https://fertile.gsic.uva.es The “FERTILE” platform is a community platform supporting educators in designing and learners in implementing Artful ER projects. It provides educators with several functionalities: an authoring environment supporting educators to design Artful ER projects based on the FERTILE methodology, tools supporting educators to co-design, …
The initial “FERTILE” Community platform is released! – November 2023 Read More »
The CUB researchers disseminated the “FERTILE” project in the context of their participation at the “Koli Calling” International Conference on Computing Education Research” (https://www.kolicalling.fi/previous-conferences/2023-2/). The conference was held on 16 & 17 November 2023 in Koli, Finland It was an excellent opportunity for disseminating the project objectives and having fruitful discussions with experts of the …
The CUP research team presented the paper “Robotics and Arts in Primary School” at the 16th Annual International Conference of Education ICERI2023 . The conference was held from November 13 to 15 in Seville, Spain. The paper highlights the findings from Czech educators using the “FERTILE” design methodology. Conference proceedings Paper
The CUB research team participated at the 21st International Conference on “Emerging ELearning Technologies and Applications (ICETA) held in High Tatras, Slovakia (https://www.iceta.sk/archive/2023/ ). They presented their paper, “How to Develop CT Skills Using Robotics Projects Combined with Arts-a Pilot Study”. You can access the paper published here.
The “FERTILE” consortium met at the UniWA, Athens, Greece premises on the 19th and 20th of October 2023 for the 4th Transnational Project Meeting. The meeting agenda included: – A workshop to test the affordances of the newly developed “FERTILE” community platform before its initial release. Discuss and provide feedback to the UVa research team …
4th Transnational Project Meeting at UniWA, Greece – October 2023 Read More »
The UniWA research team participated at the 13th Panhellenic/ International Conference “ICT in Education” hosting the Workshop “Enhancing Educators’ Interdisciplinary Project Design in Educational Robotics and Arts”. The interactive workshop aimed to empower educators to design interdisciplinary projects, combining the power of Educational Robotics and Arts, all while fostering CT. Over the course of two hours, participants from all education levels explored the …
Workshop at the Panhellenic/International Conference HCICTE2023 – September 2023 Read More »
On behalf of the consortium, the UniWA research team presented the paper “Educational Robotics along with Arts join forces to cultivate Computational Thinking” at the 13th Panhellenic/International Conference “ICT in Education” http://etpe23.cs.ihu.gr/en/. The conference was held from September 28 to October 1, 2023, in Kavala, Greece and was organised by the Hellenic International University, in …
The CUB research team participated in the “Informatics Day 2023 Workshop” and presented the FERTILE project to the Slovak educational community (https://informatickyden.sk/2023/workshopy.html). During the event, they outlined the project’s goals, the type of activities, and the impact on the cultivation of Computational Thinking skills through the combination of Educational Robotics and Arts.
In this report, the “FERTILE” consortium introduces the initial version of the “Fertile” Design Methodology, a comprehensive methodology aiming to support educators in designing blendedlearning projects that cultivate learners’ Computational Thinking skills by seamlessly integrating Educational Robotics and Arts.
