518288-LLP-1-2011-1-IT-COMENIUS-CMP 

Clockwork objects, enhanced learning: Automata Toys Construction in primary education for Learning to Learn promotion, creativity fostering & Key Competences acquisition, with the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency.

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Workshop with secondary school - Alivola - Step 5 - 20 December 2012

 

1 - In the first four meetings the kids have been experimenting with various techniques for the construction of stories, mechanisms and decorations. Today we show them the Clohe web pages related to the construction of automata. 2 - The web visit begins with the description of the project, and then enter the pages dedicated to the building. The goal is to give students a number of specific references and examples they can see by themselves. 3 - Introducing the part of the site for the construction, which is divided into several parts: the first is devoted to experimental laboratories with stakeholders and students of primary and secondary schools. www.alivola.it/00-clohe-en.htm
 
4 - This is the page of the report relating to one of the workshops already made. 5 -  The photos tell the different steps of the meeting: presentation, design, prototyping, implementation, feed back. This way, children have the opportunity to review themselves, both in the individual and in the collective actions and relationships. 6 - This is the page of the workshop with teachers and stakeholders.
The children have the opportunity to see their teachers struggling, like them, with the problem of imagining a mechanism and a decoration.
7 - From now on, we will provide specific references for the construction. This second band is dedicated to ten different types of mechanisms, some of which are already used in the classroom. The kids recognize the known mechanisms and look with curiosity to new. 8 - Clicking any mechanism opens a page that shows some automata using that mechanism, and the tablet in relation to them. Looking at the automata we are visiting a virtual museum, with dozens of automata in motion. 9 - Here is the video showing the tablet related to a mechanism. The kids have got to try a tablet during the last meeting, and then they already know the potential.
 
10 - This is the movie relating to any of automata as an example. The films, made ​​in Modern Automata Museum, are turned so that they see the details of the mechanisms from various sides. 11 - Scrolling the page relating to the construction, we present two other parts of the virtual museum: the first concerns the materials and the second concerns the manner of articulation of the various parts of the body. Each image refers to examples and a video. 12 - This visit to the site Clohe with its Virtual Museum has allowed the students to revise their work and their mode of inclusion in the group, and gave the opportunity to access a number of specific references to the building that will be useful in the next work.