FabLearn IT 2019: FabLearn Italy 2019 Università Politecnica delle Marche Ancona, Italy, November 20-22, 2019 |
Conference website | http://www.fablearn.it/en |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fli2019 |
Submission deadline | October 7, 2019 |
The FabLearn Italy 2019 is an international conference organized by Università Politecnica delle Marche and INDIRE. FabLearn Italy 2019 brings together educators, policy-makers, students, designers, researchers, and makers to present, discuss, and learn about digital fabrication in education, educational robotics, assistive robotics in education, the “makers” culture, hands on learning and innovative spaces for learning environments. The conference is organized within the framework of the global FabLearn initiative, that advocates and supports constructionist learning experiences for all children.
Submission Guidelines
The following paper categories are welcome:
- Short-papers: the short-papers track is intended for those who want to present innovative projects and/or original research results in the mentioned topics. Papers should be submitted in English and should cite relevant published work and indicate novel approaches. Authors of accepted papers will be given a 15-minute presentation slot (plus 5 minutes for questions) and are encouraged to consider novel presentation methods. Short-papers must be 5 pages long (references included). Conference short-papers will be published in open access and reviewed for their inclusion in Scopus. They will also be included in the open-access, website virtual gallery to form part of our database of innovative projects in Education and Technology. Extended versions of the best short-papers of the conference will be invited to be published on a dedicated special issue.
- Posters: posters are intended for anyone (teachers, practitioners, technologists, designers and academics etc.) working in the mentioned fields who wish to share and discuss their activities, ideas, insights, and findings with others. Poster submissions can be prepared in either English or Italian and consist of a short description of the work (1 page plus references, if any, free format), plus a short abstract (maximum 250 words). Posters themselves are not submitted for review. Posters will be displayed during the whole conference in a dedicated area; furthermore, there will be dedicated sessions where all poster presenters will attend their posters. All accepted posters will be included in the open-access website virtual gallery to form part of our database of innovative projects in Education and Technology.
List of Topics
- Maker Spaces and Fablabs at school: a maker approach to teaching and learning. The fablabs and school makerspaces are becoming an interesting reality in Italy and around the world and have a strong innovative impact on laboratory teaching. In Italy, the spread took place also thanks to the PON calls that allowed the creation of the “creative ateliers”. The short-papers and posters should describe laboratory teaching environments and experiences that happened at school, that have an innovative character above all with regards to the methods and technologies used.
- Laboratory Teaching with the makers approach: models, methods and instruments. The maker movement deeply involved schools and education in general. Indeed, during last years the laboratory teaching got inspiration from the methodologies commonly applied in makerspaces. Short-papers and posters should describe experiences that took place at school and in non-formal learning environments which have a strong innovative character with respect to education methodologies applied.
- Curricular and not curricular robotics in formal, non-formal and informal education. Educational Robotics is now a buzzword for many different experiences, both at school and in many other situations, but it is mainly a multi-disciplinary approach to teaching in the classroom of the 21st century. It often uses project-based, inquiry-driven methodologies to engage students in meaningful education. Short-Papers and posters focusing on this topic could describe activities and their outcomes, propose new perspectives on how to introduce educational robotics into schools, outline shortcomings in the state-of-the-art or any other experience and idea that may help develop scientific and practical knowledge in the field of Educational Robotics.
- Social and assistive robotics in education. Short-papers and posters should address the use of assistive technologies in education. This could imply both the use of assistive technologies and accessibility services to help impaired students to overcome their disability, and the use of assistive robotics as a mean for helping students to learn about disability and to understand how technology can help to improve disables’ inclusion.
- How innovative spaces and learning environment condition the transformation of teaching: good practices and pilot projects. This topic will explore the relationship between architecture and education through good practices and pilot projects. Particularly, the focus will be on the architectural design of innovative learning environments that can positively influence the education experience through the quality of space.
Committees
Program Committee
GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
- Lorenzo Guasti (INDIRE)
- David Scaradozzi (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
GLOBAL FABLEARN CHAIR
- Paulo Blikstein (Teachers College, Columbia University)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Laura Screpanti (Università Politecnica delle Marche) – coordinator
- Margherita Di Stasio (INDIRE)
- Beatrice Miotti (INDIRE)
- Jessica Niewint (INDIRE)
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
- Paulo Blikstein (Teachers College, Columbia University)
- Paolo Bonvini (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
- Samuele Borri (INDIRE)
- Massimo Callegari (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
- Lorenzo Cesaretti (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
- Augusto Chioccarello (ITD – Genova)
- Giuseppe Conte (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
- Stefano Converso (Univerisità Roma Tre)
- Daniele Costa (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
- Linda Daniela (University of Latvia)
- Edoardo Datteri (Università Bicocca Milano)
- Margherita Di Stasio (INDIRE)
- Maddalena Ferretti (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
- Tamar Fuhrmann (Teachers College, Columbia University)
- Lorenzo Guasti (INDIRE)
- Dirk Ifenthaler (University of Mannheim)
- Gianluca Ippoliti (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
- Livia Macedo (Teachers College, Columbia University)
- Eleni Mangina (University College Dublin)
- Berta Martini (Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo)
- Irene Marzoli (Università di Camerino)
- Emanuele Micheli (Scuola di Robotica)
- Beatrice Miotti (INDIRE)
- Gianluigi Mondaini (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
- Andrea Monteriù (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
- Paola Nicolini (Università di Macerata)
- Jessica Niewint (INDIRE)
- Giovanni Nulli (INDIRE)
- Fiorella Operto (Scuola di Robotica)
- Nancy Pyrini (University of the Aegean)
- Maria Ranieri (Università di Firenze)
- David Scaradozzi (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
- Laura Screpanti (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
- Luisa Zecca (Università Bicocca Milano)
Organizing committee
- Lorenzo Cesaretti (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
- Margherita Di Stasio (INDIRE)
- Tamar Fuhrmann (Teachers College, Columbia University)
- Lorenzo Guasti (INDIRE)
- Livia Macedo (Teachers College, Columbia University)
- Beatrice Miotti (INDIRE)
- Jessica Niewint (INDIRE)
- Giovanni Nulli (INDIRE)
- Arianna Pugliese (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
- David Scaradozzi (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
- Laura Screpanti (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
- Alicja Żenczykowska (FabLearn)
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to l.screpanti@pm.univpm.it