SmartTEAM has recently arrived in Chile, at a school called La Cruz. The school’s Head of Educational Technology, Antonia Irrazábal, said, with great enthusiasm, that “it’s incredible to see how 21st-century soft skills, such as critical thinking, creative thinking, communicative thinking and teamwork, are being developed”.
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The educational institution added the SmartTEAM Robotics and Programming programme to its curriculum with the aim of fostering computational thinking among its pupils, which is so essential in today’s world.
Rosana Muñoz, project director at Leer Más Hoy and responsible for bringing the project to Chile, emphasised that SmartTEAM “offers huge educational potential” and that it was “striking to see the children’s enthusiasm for the presentations at this school”. She also stated that “the children have created various projects, the teachers have done an excellent job, and we are absolutely delighted that the project is going so well”.
As we always say, technology is, in effect, a new form of literacy for the children of this century, and that entails knowledge, competencies and skills that the formal education system does not provide. SmartTEAM is designed to be rolled out in schools gradually, so that children can gradually acquire the knowledge and skills required for the 21st century. Furthermore, it comes with all the necessary resources for teachers, so that any teacher can teach a robotics programme – not just the technology teacher. As Sebastián Gubero, commercial director of SmartTEAM, explains, “first we thought about how to teach robotics and, based on that, we developed the books, the content, the robot and the programming systems.”
One of the students on the workshop, Matías Herreros, after building a robot that acts as a maths teacher and can add and subtract, said: “It’s great fun; I think it’s a really good robotics school, because you can interact with the robots and the teachers are really lovely. Some things are tricky; there are always problems, but they can be sorted out.” Meanwhile, students María Jesús Larraín and Lucía Arnaiz created a waiter robot, “which works in a pizzeria, goes round offering food next to the tables and you can pay straight away”. “It’s great fun; we’ve learnt a lot,” they said.
We are absolutely delighted that more and more schools across various countries in Latin America are choosing to implement our Robotics and Programming educational programme. Thank you, La Cruz!
