Overview and Background

An online platform and a robot. The platform will interact with physical robots or in a virtual community, to implement with them specific teaching units for adults with disabilities. This goal leads offering this group the ability to access a normal activity, such as playing with robots. With this in mind it aims to help to promote the inclusion of disabled people.

To promote the inclusion of disabled people. Involve parents in teaching/learning activities to enhance the bond parent – child and strengthen their relationship is also a purpose seeked by the project. The fact that there is a virtual community also allows playing in pairs. For this reason, physically separated adults could also play in a jointly way.

Lesson Plan and Activity

The platform includes 10 units with at least 3 different set activities to be carried out. The activities are presented in ascending order of difficulty (Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced) and are based on already existing games or new ones that can be created from blank templates to adapt to the needs of the different users. The aim of the games is to work and improve on different areas, such as orientation, sequence, etc.

These units are designed to encourage play between two people, which can be students as well as adults with disabilities or families, thus improving interaction along with peer learning. This role can also be carried out by parents and educators.

Materials Needed

In this initial unit, basically it would be a unit of knowledge of the robot and what it can do: the buttons, their movements, modes of operation, the robot parts etc and start with it.
Each unit has activities with 3 levels of difficulty:

In level easy you are going to recognise your goal on each board and to move the robot on the board. (Reading ability is not required. I could only present images of some objects.)
In level medium you can use provided board or create your own. On this level It is possible to use QR codes to get more information about the topics and involve ability of reading.
In level advanced you have to cooperate with other people. It’s a level for 2 or more players.

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