DTU - Center for Playware’s work on of the interactive Fable modular robotic system for playful science and engineering education of children and young adults has received support from Dr. Techn. A. N. Neergaard og Hustrus Fond.
Children are growing up in a rapidly changing society. This makes it is difficult to predict what specific skills they must learn to improve their chances to have a successful and rewarding adult life. To prepare the children for their future we must train them in generic skills that will enable them to adapt to changing requirements such as the engineering design process, critical thinking, and creative problem solving. Unfortunately, such skills are not always acquired by the child in his or her interactions with the traditional educational system. Therefore, new ways to motivate and engage the children in such learning activities are desirable.
Center for Playware’s approach is to provide the children with a modular robotic kit that they open-ended can assemble and program to develop their own interactive robots. This approach allow the children to gradually learn fundamental skills from science and engineering in a motivating iterative process of imagining what to create, creating it, playing, sharing with others, and reflecting on how to improve their creation.
On the 14th of November, Assistant Professor David Johan Christensen from Center for Playware/AUT, received 31.500 dkk in support from Dr. Techn. A. N. Neergaard og Hustrus Fond for the continued development of the Fable interactive modular robotic platform for playful science and engineering education of children and young adults.