Robotics at Primary and Secondary Education Levels: Technology, Methodology, Curriculum and Science

This paper presents the authors’experience in using robotics at different education levels. They have been involved for more than one year in an on-going project (TERECoP) which deals with the use of Robotics in Education. This has permitted to the authors to investigate different issues of practiacl educational robotics, e.g. like methodology approaches and technological issues, but also to address more fundamental questions like: “What is robotics at school?” or “How we can design good robotics learning experiences?”. Within this context, the authors present in this paper some methodological considerations first, and then describe a pilot course of the use of robotics for teacher’s sciences. Afterwards they discuss on several issues in the use of robotics in education, like curriculum or science and technology dissemination.