Abstract:

The present communication shows the designed methodology to promote scientific and technology vocations in schools and K-12 students. The promotion of scientific culture and innovation needs the proper study of the contents of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) throughout the entire learning process. The project looks for the development of educational resources needed to study the STEM content of the K-12 Spanish curriculum based on results obtained through research projects recently developed by different local research groups. Furthermore, this allows put in relation research groups with the educational community. In this paper, we describe the methodology, and materials developed to study the control and robotics contents, basing the explanation on a research project developed by Bit&Brain Techonologies, a spin off company of the University of Zaragoza. This work proposes an active methodology in which the student becomes an investigator, which motivates and encourages their learning with the opportunity to work with a pioneer company in the use of brain-computer interface technologies. The result of this educational project is a comprehensive STEM competency-oriented curriculum using the project based learning methodology and using collaborative work with ICT tools. This allows to combine competency-based curricula and collaborative on line work with the benefits of educational robotics.

Keywords:

Project based learning, control, robotics, motivating students, competency-oriented curriculum, STEM curriculum, scientific vocations.