{"id":14,"date":"2016-01-05T20:16:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T20:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roboesl.eu\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2016-01-20T08:30:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T08:30:13","slug":"why-roboesl","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/roboesl.eu\/?page_id=14","title":{"rendered":"Why RoboESL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent studies show that school failure may lead to school disengagement and early school leaving. The problem of school failure and early school leaving (ESL) challenges European educational systems as well as European economies. \u00a0Many students who fail in school or are at risk of early\u00a0school describe\u00a0the\u00a0school curriculum and the existing\u00a0teaching practices as discouraging factors towards staying at school. These students \u00a0often claim they are\u00a0rarely offered with opportunities to develop their creativity, to work on hands-on activities and to learn practical skills useful in their life.<\/p>\n<p>During last decade studies assure that educational robotics (ER) can provide learning experiences that promote children\u2019s creative thinking, collaborative spirit, and problem solving skills \u2013 the essential skills necessary in the workplace of the 21st century. Educational Robotics is a modern\u00a0learning practice that draws upon the conception of\u00a0Constructivism (Piaget) and Constructionism (Papert) and project-based learning. ER emerges as a unique tool that creates an attractive learning environment that engages students in\u00a0hands-on and\u00a0enjoyable\u00a0learning activities.<\/p>\n<p>RoboESL uses ER to motivate students at risk of school failure and disengagement towards staying at school and\u00a0improving their performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent studies show that school failure may lead to school disengagement and early school leaving. The problem of school failure and early school leaving (ESL) challenges European educational systems as well as European economies. \u00a0Many students who fail in school or are at risk of early\u00a0school describe\u00a0the\u00a0school curriculum and the existing\u00a0teaching practices as discouraging factors towards staying at school. These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roboesl.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roboesl.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roboesl.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roboesl.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roboesl.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/roboesl.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/roboesl.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/85"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roboesl.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roboesl.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}