STEAM: The New Way of Teaching and Learning

On completion of this course participants will be able to:

• Verify and develop their pedagogical and communication skills.
• Improve the perspectives and development opportunities of each student.
• Give possibility to attract students more by presenting topic in a more interesting and appealing way.
• Increase motivation for professional development.
• Reach even the most demanding students in an easier way.
• Manage feelings and conflicts by focusing on solutions.
• Cooperate with teachers as well as with students and parents.
• Promote group work and long-term projects to provoke changes which will allow to take off unnecessary burden off the shoulders of the educational staff and exert greater impact on the learning process and more satisfying and stimulating climate of coexistence in the school context.

• Day 1: Computer Programming and Logic

Initial Welcome

Review of the programme agenda

Course timetable

Introductions

What is STEAM? Skills

Introduction to programming with offline activities

• Day 2: First robots: Programming with SCRATCH JR

Presentation of floor robots

Examples of previous participants´activities

Creating your own activity and map

Block programming with Scratch JR

• Day 3: Computer Programming and Logic. MBLOCK

Introduction to programming

Mblock software features

Introduction to block programming with mblock

• Day 4: Construction and Programming of the MBOT Educational Robot

Characteristics of the mbot hardware

Construction of the robot

Hybrid programming with the computer

Programming of movements, lights and sounds, LED screen

Use and programming of the remote control

Bluetooth communication

• Day 5: STEAM Skills into the currículum. Your own STEAM lesson

Examples of projects that include STEAM skills (Music)

Designing your own STEAM project applying what you learnt in the course