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- Smart City Kids Lab: Creative Computing in Primary SchoolPublication . Gomes, Cristina Azevedo; Gomes, Helena Margarida dos Santos Vasconcelos; Rego, Belmiro; Sousa, Barbara; Loureiro, Manuela; Rocha, PedroIn recent years there is a growing interest in including programming activities in education, emphasizing the importance of children developing computer thinking since early ages. Block-based programming environments scaffold children to explore and learn programming in an easier way. In this paper we present a project supported by a theoretical framework that mobilizes constructionism, the maker movement, tinkering, and project-based learning, and a practical framework based on workshops with primary teachers. Primary school children developed computational thinking and creative computing skills, while they design and present ideas to turn their city a smart city. Results show the quality of the products developed using programming and robots and the impact that this approach can have in authentic learning.
- MindMaths: learning mathematics in the early years through computational thinking and roboticsPublication . Gomes, Cristina Azevedo; Gomes, Helena Margarida dos Santos Vasconcelos; Figueiredo, Maria; Lucas, Antonio; Menezes, LuisMindMaths is an EU-funded project, started in 2020, with partners from Portugal, Italy, Turkey and Latvia, aiming to cope with math anxiety and problems with mathematics learning in primary education, using educational robotics. Throughout Flipped Learning Practices its focus is on initial primary teacher training, designing learning activities and resources to fulfill this challenge of preparing the future teachers to use robotics to release math anxiety. This paper presents an overview of the MindMaths Project and the main ideas underlying its development in the Portuguese context. It frames the more relevant learning issues in primary math education, presents the most significant initiative of programing and robotics in the Portuguese scene and discuss the potential that computational thinking and robotics offer for learning meaningful mathematics in the early years. It also presents a pilot study in a polytechnic school with the participation of 20 students, future teachers, discussing the main ideas of its development and results.
- Digital Learning Spaces in Primary Schools: Challenges and PracticesPublication . Gomes, Cristina AzevedoEl discurso sobre la integración de las TIC en la educación puede resultar engañoso, cuando nos lleva a considerar las prácticas docentes en una dicotomía, con TIC o sin TIC, como si fuera posible, en medio de una sociedad digital, diseñar una educación infantil. en este paradigma. En esta comunicación intentaremos reflexionar sobre las prácticas de aprendizaje en las escuelas primarias, enfocadas al desarrollo de los conocimientos y habilidades de los niños en un enfoque holístico y transdisciplinario, en el que, inevitablemente, se trabaja y se aprende con la tecnología. Se explorarán algunos proyectos que se desarrollaron en un enfoque de aprendizaje basado en proyectos, movilizando un conjunto diverso de tecnologías y escenarios de aprendizaje. En un enfoque de metaanálisis, se convocan varias dimensiones para analizar el desarrollo de estos proyectos y su impacto en el aprendizaje de los niños.