Educational robotics is quite spread among the schools and centers, but if you take a look at number of participants and attitudes towards technology and engineering in society, picture would not encourage us to bet on the future. We do not need to popularize robotics or science or STEM. Instead we need to create and grow awareness among youth, teachers and parents. Ready-Set-Robot is a project for bringing together robotics and video production. Biggest goal is to broadcast FIRST LEGO League events for one season. It will help partners all over the world to try the same and in cooperation promote robotics, STEM and project based learning through fun and interactive way. Within this project we address elementary and middle school teachers by creating ten high quality videos of how to use technology in young age to encourage flow of technology into subjects and everyday lessons in schools. We will also create custom videos of how-to-build-robot for different tasks. Videos will be available in english, latvian, estonian, swedish and finnish and demonstrate how for example to build a sumo robot. We will also create instructional videos how to participate in FIRST LEGO League and build an effective robot or well considered project. All videos will be published on websites of partners in Estonia, Finland, Latvia and Sweden. These videos will help students to strengthen the learning experience through robots and programming. There are five major Intellectual Outputs for this project: 1. A boadcast of one entire FIRST LEGO League season in Estonia to YT to be used as learning tool for next generations. It will include best robots, project and teams to show and talk about their results. There will be five qualifiers and the final for the 2018/2019 season. We predict more than 160 teams and 1600 kids to participate. 2. eLearning instructional "how-to do robotics" videos from first to ninth grade. The purpose is to help both teachers and people who are not teachers to make educational robotics with groups of children at homes or at a school club. These people often have the will but lack knowledge and we will give them first steps and tools to start running their own IT or robotics club for kids. The course will use two robotic kits and tasks will be specific and straight forward with visually attractive video lectures. 3. A methodological framework in the form of a handbook for teachers who want to develop and produce their own instructional videos in a simple, cost effective way. Tips and Tricks! 4. A continuous professional development (CPD) "Video Making for Science and Technology Teachers". A matching Learning Outcome Matrix according to the European Qualification Framework (EQF) as a set of ECVET learning outcomes (LO) - in terms of knowledge, skills and competences. 5. A multi-lingual learning OER platform providing open and instant access to the full suite of project’s outputs will be developed, including the eLearning video space, the methodological framework and supporting the access to the CPD course. One part of the platform will focus on how to create a good video for learning. This is important to show how students can make their own videos that be great teaching materials for others
Educational robotics is quite spread among the schools and centers, but if you take a look at number of participants and attitudes towards technology and engineering in society, picture would not encourage us to bet on the future. We do not need to popularize robotics or science or STEM. Instead we need to create and grow awareness among youth, teachers and parents. Ready-Set-Robot was a project for bringing together robotics and video production. The main goal was to teach coaches and students to make better videos about their robots and team and through good quality learning videos be more successful in robotics programs and competitions provided in their home country. This helped partners in cooperation to promote robotics, STEM and project based learning through fun and interactive way. We created videos of how-to-build-robot for different tasks. Videos are available with English, Latvian, Estonian, Swedish and Finnish subtitles and in partner country own language. These demonstrate how for example to build a sumo robots, what to keep in mind of its mechanics, strategy and how to program it. Also instructional videos for line follower robots and folk race robots. Also a set of instructional videos were made that help students and their coaches to make better videos about robotics. These include videos like: "Filming for Beginners", "How to films a LEGO robot with mobile phone and tablet" and "Interviewing for beginners". The last one helps students to have better communications with their own team and with experts. We also created instructional videos how to participate in FIRST LEGO League and build an effective robot or well considered project. There were instructional videos for FIRST LEGO League programming, navigation, mechanics and attachments and a full set of videos for new and veteran teams of how to be successful in FIRST LEGO League robot design, robot game, explanation of robot parts and FIRST EGO League project pitching. All videos were published on project website - readysetrobot.eu and were linked also to each partners own website. Also a new channel Ready Set Robot was made into YouTube and all the videos are there inside different and logical playlists. These videos will help students to strengthen the learning experience through robots and programming. There are 4 Intellectual Outputs for this project: IO1. OER platform. A Multilanguage website was created to host all the materials provided with the project. These are all those 70 videos that helps students and their coaches with different part of educational robotics and specially FIRST LEGO League program. IO2. Video Set for FLL teams. As mentioned above, we have created a set of videos to promote FIRST LEGO League teams. These videos promote all parts of FIRST LEGO League: * Project pitching videos to help the teams to understand the concept of Innovation project and to teach them how to pitch their project in 3 minutes. * Robot design and what to expect from the judges and how to talk about your robot design and concept. * Robot Game, videos of demo robot games and robot games with voice over, where teams talks about their robot strategy during a real life match. IO3. How to Build a ... robot. A set of videos to better understand different part of robotics and how to build Sumo robots, what to notice and be aware (mechanics, strategy, programming), how to build a line followers, folk race robots etc. And also how to film a moving robot, how to interview and where to start with filming when you are a beginner. IO4/5. Methodological Framework handbook. We created a handbook, that is aimed at supporting teachers, pedagogical staff, managers, trainers, decision makers and stakeholders, in the implementation of the material created in the Ready Set Robot project. This output consolidates the projects outcomes, into a methodological description and practical ideas of implementing the material in training at various levels: national, regional and local. It has chapters about video documentation and its importance and about the example videos and about the training course. All expected outputs were created successfully and most of the Multiplier events were done. Only the Estonian Teacher conference was not made in such large manner, due to covid restrictions and was replaced with small events.