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Toward Vocational
Robotics
An Experience in Post-Secondary School Education
and Job Training Through Robotics
By Giulio Vitale, Andrea Bonarini,
Matteo Matteucci, and Luca Bascetta
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his article presents an experience that extends the traditional practice of
classical educational robotics (ER), typical of primary and secondary
schools, to a new didactic tool. Its aim is to link vocational and
secondary schools to the completion of the school career in advanced
technologies to gain access to high-technology jobs. The reported
experience lasted one year and was intended for students with a high-school
degree. The experience culminated with students applying theoretical knowledge
to develop an autonomous robot. The course aimed to develop knowledge and
skills for mature and effective operators who could directly enter the hightechnology labor market. The first edition of the course has just reached its end,
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The lemma ER embraces a wide spectrum of disciplines, technologies, and educational practices, and it aims to become a
qualifying instrument of the
cognitive development process, suited for different levels
in one's educational career. ER,
as conceived by the constructivist
point of view of the "cognitive
artifacts" by Seymour Papert [1],
[2], makes students learn by
doing, forces the integration of
multidisciplinary expertise, and
develops one's ability to work in a team
to achieve ambitious objectives. We
present here the experience of a feasible
transition from classical ER used in
the K-12 school curriculum to develop basic skills and stimulate cognitive
processes, to the concept of a novel
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