E52:"Using hand-held devices in educational activities"
Demonstration of New Technologies The Odysseia Project,
Demonstration of New Technologies
The Odysseia Project, Ministry of Education,
Operational Programme for Education and
Initial Vocational Training (EPEAEK I), 1999-2000

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The project involved the design and implementation of an experimental classroom project using Lego's 'Lego Mindstorms' kit. The project took place in two schools, for a weekly session for about two months. The activity was reported, highlighting student involvement, interplay between constructing and changing the physical Lego brick artefacts and programming their behaviours in this course which was perceived by the schools as 'a technology course involving mathematics and science ideas and concepts'. The project help setup an upgraded inter-subjective computer science course resembling the 'investigations' course in the newly - formed Psychico College middle school. The activities were also implemented in the Hellenikon multicultural state middle school.