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In the Industrial Revolution Era 4.0, led by technological developments, education plays an essential role in preparing students with the skills required to survive. Pedagogical innovations in the pre-service teacher programme are necessary to encourage pre-service teachers with adequate abilities and skills in preparing classroom activities that enhance the essential skills. This book results from a one-year study examining a new approach to equip prospective mathematics teachers with 21st-century skills. The prospective teachers were involved in RoboSTE[M], a STEM-based approach that employs robotics in the classroom. The book contains articles that discussed Robotic and STEM education, followed by ready-to-used RoboSTE[M] students worksheets that prospective mathematics teachers produced.

This volume addresses the key issue of the initial education and lifelong professional learning of teachers of mathematics to enable them to realize the affordances of educational technology for mathematics. With invited contributions from leading scholars in the field, this volume contains a blend of research articles and descriptive texts. In the opening chapter John Mason invites the reader to engage in a number of mathematics tasks that highlight important features of technology-mediated mathematical activity. This is followed by three main sections: An overview of current practices in teachers’ use of digital technologies in the classroom and explorations of the possibilities for developing more effective practices drawing on a range of research perspectives (including grounded theory, enactivism and Valsiner’s zone theory). A set of chapters that share many common constructs (such as instrumental orchestration, instrumental distance and double instrumental genesis) and research settings that have emerged from the French research community, but have also been taken up by other colleagues. Meta-level considerations of research in the domain by contrasting different approaches and proposing connecting or uniting elements

This proceedings volume showcases the latest achievements in research and development in Educational Robotics presented at the 7th International Conference on Robotics in Education (RiE) held in Vienna, Austria, during April 14-15, 2016. The book offers a range of methodologies for teaching robotics and presents various educational robotics curricula. It includes dedicated chapters for the design and analysis of learning environments as well as evaluation means for measuring the impact of robotics on the students’ learning success. Moreover, the book presents interesting programming approaches as well as new applications, the latest tools, systems and components for using robotics. The presented applications cover the whole educative range, from elementary school to high school, college, university and beyond, for continuing education and possibly outreach and workforce development. The book provides a framework involving two complementary kinds of contributions: on the one hand on technical aspects and on the other hand on matters of didactic.

Analyses the history and technology of computing devices designed for children, deriving categories of design decisions, and creating theoretical and design frameworks to guide designers and researchers. It is a timely reference for anyone with an interest in the topic given the growing presence of these devices in formal and informal education.

Emphasizes the discoveries and explorations of Columbus, Magellan and Drake during the period.