FabLearn IT 2021: FabLearn Italy 2021 Online Florence, Italy, December 13-17, 2021 |
Conference website | https://italy2021.fablearn.global/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fablearnit2021 |
The FabLearn Italy 2021 is an international conference organized by INDIRE. FabLearn Italy 2021 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
Acceptance will be based on full paper contributions that report original work that has not been previously published. The paper must identify and cite published work relevant to the paper topic. It should explain how the work builds on previous contributions and should indicate where and why novel approaches have been adopted. Papers should stress the importance of the submission to the digital fabrication/makers/hands-on learning communities.
The following paper categories are welcome:
- Full paper: the full paper category is intended for those researchers 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. Full paper should present a solid and extensive theorical background, the reasearch hypotesys and the methodologies used in the research and final results. 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 10 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.
- Short paper: the short-papers category is intended for those teachers, researchers who want to present case studies, hands-on educational experiences, educational activities in the mentioned topics. Short paper should describe the context where experiences have been done (number of students, students' grades ecc), some theorical background, the methodologies and instruments used for observations and assessment, conclusions. 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
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Makerspace and Fablab at school. Realizing a maker approach to teaching and learning, new models, emerging methods and instruments.
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Coding e computational thinking. Understanding and constructing reality through multi perspective methods and tools.
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Educational robotics. Methodologies and tools to enhance curricular learnings.
- Emerging technologies in education. A look to the future through emerging technologies that interact with the educational environment: AI, Blockchain, etc.
Committees
Program Committee
GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
- Lorenzo Guasti (INDIRE)
- Beatrice Miotti (INDIRE)
GLOBAL FABLEARN CHAIR
- Paulo Blikstein (Teachers College, Columbia University)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Giovanni Nulli (INDIRE)
- Margherita Di Stasio (INDIRE)
- Beatrice Miotti (INDIRE)
- Lorenzo Guati (INDIRE)
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
- Agnese Addone (Università di Salerno)
- Paulo Blikstein (Teachers College, Columbia University)
- Lorenzo Cesaretti (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
- Gianna Cappello (Università di Palermo)
- Augusto Chioccariello (ITD - Genova)
- Edoardo Datteri (Università Bicocca Milano)
- Margherita Di Stasio (INDIRE)
- Tamar Fuhrmann (Columbia University)
- Lorenzo Guasti (INDIRE)
- Giuseppina Rita Jose Mangione (INDIRE)
- Beatrice Miotti (INDIRE)
- Giovanni Nulli (INDIRE)
- Fiorella Operto (Scuola di Robotica)
- Maria Ranieri (Università di Firenze)
- Pier Cesare Rivoltella (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
- Pier Giuseppe Rossi (UniMC)
- David Scaradozzi (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
- Laura Screpanti (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
- Vittorio Scarano (Università di Salerno)
Organizing committee
- Lorenzo Calistri (INDIRE)
- Margherita Di Stasio (INDIRE)
- Lorenzo Guasti (INDIRE)
- Livia Macedo (Teachers College, Columbia University)
- Beatrice Miotti (INDIRE)
- Giovanni Nulli (INDIRE)
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to fablearn@indire.it