We are at the beginning of a new era in Education, the digital one, for which we must provide future generations with the necessary tools and attitudes for the upcoming challenges they will face. The labor market is constantly changing, in fact, it is very likely that we are preparing our students for professions that do not even exist today. Emerging work areas, such as Biotechnology, Data Analysis, Artificial Intelligence... already require extensive training in science, technology, engineering or mathematics, academic disciplines known as STEM.
The Alborán School, thanks to all the information collected and analyzed throughout various fairs, congresses and symposia related to Innovation, Mobile Learning and Educational Robotics in which it has participated during the 2015-2016 academic year, has developed a careful project to deploy Programming, Robotics and 3D Design. Likewise, a teacher training plan is being carried out, endorsed by the Robotics Network of the Official College of Telecommunications Engineers, which, although it has already started, will be continuous in order to ensure the level of updating that this type of knowledge require. The implementation of this ambitious project will be curriculum level at all levels, from Kindergarten to Baccalaureate, through contents that have been thoroughly studied and adapted to the emotional and intellectual development of each of the stages.
The methodological strategy that we use for its implementation in the classroom is PBL and CBL, learning based on projects and challenges. “We learn by doing and by reflecting on what we have done” (John Dewey). The main objective of education is to create people capable of doing new things and not simply repeating what other generations have done.
The use of these pedagogical tools and methodologies allows the enhancement of personal skills and abilities of boys and girls by effectively developing aspects such as:
- creativity and ability innate to invent.
- The critical analysis of information.
- Logical and sequential thinking.
- Innovation and initiative.
- Development of thinking skills.
- Modularization and resolution of problems/challenges.
- Overcome the frustration caused by making mistakes and learn to overcome and insist until you achieve your goals.
- Teamwork, helping and being helped by the rest of the group, and respect for others and for oneself.
- Communication through the presentation of content, projects, debate and defense of ideas, as well as admitting those of their classmates.
- The transversal treatment of positive values for students, such as: solidarity, trust in oneself and in others.
The practices are carried out through challenges and games that the boys and girls must solve in a fun and motivating way, thus increasing their self-sufficiency, autonomy and the optimal development of their own talent.
