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Innovative Tools for Teaching Marine Robotics, IoT and Control Strategies Since the Primary School

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Digital skills are becoming increasingly central to the educational policy of every country and educational systems are facing new challenges in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. All pupils should gain the knowledge, skills and competences they need, as they determine an individual’s chance to succeed in the future labour market and to have an active role in the future society. In the last decade, a lot of projects showed how educational robotics (ER) can be a powerful tool for teaching basic skills and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) subjects.

This chapter will present OpenFISH.science, a project developed to teach robotics, STEM and Internet of things (IoT). Moreover, by directly involving people in themes about the marine environment, it will raise awareness and provide knowledge on RoboEthics, blue careers and ocean literacy. OpenFISH.science could empower students since the primary school to build and create distributed control systems and experiences by means of lessons and its wireless electronic building blocks and software.

Presenting curricula based on ER and constructionism that will use specific toolkits to engage (mainly) primary school kids (ages 6–12), this chapter is intended as a contribution for researchers, policymakers and everyday teachers that endeavour to help students in primary education to develop their mind and personality, as they will be their best resources to participate actively, responsibly and successfully throughout their lives in society.

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Abbreviations

ER:

Educational robotics

eSTrEM:

environment, Science, Technology, robotics, Engineering and Math

ISCED:

International Standard Classification of Education

IoT:

Internet of things

OECD:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

STEM:

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics

STEAM:

Science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics

UNESCO:

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

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  1. David Scaradozzi, Lorenzo Cesaretti and Laura Screpanti contributed equally with all other contributors.

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione (DII), Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

    David Scaradozzi, Lorenzo Cesaretti, Laura Screpanti & Silvia Zingaretti

  2. LSIS – umr CNRS 6168, Laboratoire des Sciences de l’Information et des Systèmes, Equipe I&M (ESIL), Case 925 - 163, Marseille Cedex 9, France

    David Scaradozzi, Lorenzo Cesaretti, Laura Screpanti & Silvia Zingaretti

  3. TALENT srl, Osimo, Ancona, Italy

    Lorenzo Cesaretti

  4. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e Scienze Matematiche (DIISM), Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

    Daniele Costa

  5. ICS Largo Cocconi, Largo G. Cocconi, 10, Rome, Italy

    Mariantonietta Valzano

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Scaradozzi, D., Cesaretti, L., Screpanti, L., Costa, D., Zingaretti, S., Valzano, M. (2019). Innovative Tools for Teaching Marine Robotics, IoT and Control Strategies Since the Primary School. In: Daniela, L. (eds) Smart Learning with Educational Robotics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19913-5_8

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