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Empowering Minds by Taking Control: Developing Teachers’ Technological Fluency with LEGO Mindstorms
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, St. Patrick's College, Ireland ; , MIT Media Lab, United States ; , Gleason Research, United States

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, ISBN 978-1-880094-37-2 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC USA

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This paper documents "Empowering Minds," a project that has established a partnership between St. Patrick's College (Education faculty of Dublin City University), the Irish National Centre for Technology in Education (NCTE), the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and selected Irish primary schools. In this project, we are collaboratively designing and implementing a program for the use of control technology with primary school children, which it is hoped will open the gateways to new ways of learning in schools.

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Butler, D., Martin, F. & Gleason, W. (2000). Empowering Minds by Taking Control: Developing Teachers’ Technological Fluency with LEGO Mindstorms. In D. Willis, J. Price & J. Willis (Eds.), Proceedings of SITE 2000--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 598-603). Waynesville, NC USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved March 2, 2021 from .

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