• DocumentCode
    2748988
  • Title

    Challenges in an emerging country: A digital divide case using robotics

  • Author

    Gomes, Marcelo Carboni ; Barone, Dante Augusto Couto ; Horwath, Karla Chagas

  • Author_Institution
    Programa de Pos-Grad. em Inf. na Educ., Univ. Fed. do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    14-16 April 2010
  • Firstpage
    1519
  • Lastpage
    1524
  • Abstract
    This digital divide case is sponsored by UNESCO and Brazilian Education Ministry as a pilot-project science and technology democratization initiative named RoboEdu. The main role is to allow that high school students can be the first technologies contacts using computers and robotics experiments due them low profile families remuneration. The initiative uses education interactions as main engine to guarantee the math and physics studies understanding and to reach the best cognitives practices approaching to the ideal pedagogic model. The teacher needs technical support also cause the language used must be translate to a simple vocabulary where students achieve the learning goals. The educator essential role starts to be several possibilities of knowledge generation not mattering anymore who knows technologies but through the part of the involved ones into orientation, participation and exchange of experiences. When the teachers and students are engaged on these activities pertaining to school evasion is reduced drastically.
  • Keywords
    cognitive systems; computer aided instruction; robots; technical support services; Brazilian education ministry; RoboEdu; UNESCO; cognitives practices; digital divide case; high school students; ideal pedagogic model; learning goals; low profile families remuneration; math studies; physics studies; pilot project science; robotics; technical support; Bandwidth; Electronic mail; Frequency conversion; Interference; Large-scale systems; Long Term Evolution; Radio propagation; Radio spectrum management; Robots; Throughput; digital divide; educational learning; robotics; technologies;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Education Engineering (EDUCON), 2010 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Madrid
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6568-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6570-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492346
  • Filename
    5492346