Personalized pedagogical menus

Abstract

The experience that we share in this paper is a living testimony of how one can deeply embrace the conviction that each pupil is an unrepeatable person in democratic educational settings that promote critical thinking. Providing students with the ability to think beyond admitted ideas, combining in an original way the knowledge that they have acquired, has always been a very real and unwavering commitment for us. This article describes more than 28 years of experience in Robotics and Programming in the training of students from 5 to 18 years, and of young adults and grown-ups. It presents a reality in the context of the Catalan School, which is now also materialized in a technical-pedagogical centre linked to Catalonia’s educational system. From its inception in the early 1990s to the present, robotics has enabled us to offer students an opportunity to learn to think, and to learn to know. From this intensely experienced reality we have seen and we still see how all the protagonists of the teaching and learning process have had and continue to have a real opportunity to develop their own competences in order to find real solutions and to lead their own learning within the framework of a personalized didactical methodology.

Keywords: Transdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, robotics, computational thinking, critical thinking, teaching and learning, personalization and neurosciences.