ROBOTIKANDO: a Web Tool for Supporting Teacher Practicing Robotics in Kindergarten

TL;DR

ROBOTIKANDO is a web tool designed to assist kindergarten teachers in planning robotics activities and facilitate knowledge sharing among robotics experts, developed through a co-design process to align with early childhood education principles.

Contribution

The paper introduces ROBOTIKANDO, a novel web application that supports robotics education in kindergartens and fosters collaboration among educators and experts.

Findings

Designed through a co-design process

Connects robotics with kindergarten education principles

Plans for longitudinal evaluation with teachers

Abstract

This paper describes ROBOTIKANDO, a web application for supporting both kindergarten teachers in planning educational robotics activities and educational robotics experts who would like to share their knowledge and experience. ROBOTIKANDO has been designed and implemented following a co-design process, which devised a conceptual map aiming to connect educational robotics and kindergarten education principles. As future work, we are planning a longitudinal evaluation with Preschools teachers. Moreover, we are thinking of extending the application to teachers of primary and secondary schools.