Students, 14 to 16 years old, attended a summer school in Patras from the 25th to the 28th of June. This summer school was held in four different cities (Patras, Athens, Salonica and Larissa) at the same time. Their common subject was the promotion of UMI technologies through the teaching of a simple scenario: “The Internet of […]
At the beginning of the first day, after a warm up activity for the students to introduce themselves and feel at ease and after setting ground rules, a presentation of applications and the architecture of the Internet of Things was made using two videos. The first video was about everyday situations that the Internet of […]
The Educational Scenario (ES) “The Internet of Things in our hands” promotes the interactivity between teachers – students – educational materials. Through the platform and the activities of the ES, communication and collaboration between different groups, such as trainers, professionals, parents, academics, researchers or other relevant stakeholders from the same country or from different countries […]
Lower Secondary Experimental School Agion Anargyron is one of the four schools in Greece (Athens, Patras , Larissa and Thessaloniki) that organized a summer camp, implementing a full scenario on Internet of Things. These parallel summer camps took place in the framework of the Pilot Phase of UMI-Sci-Ed in Greece. Teachers responsible for organizing and […]
A group of students have recently joined the NTNU team and tried out one of the educational scenarios of UMI-Sci-Ed poject. The scenario is based on ANYBOARD, a platform for the design of interactive board games (see https://github.com/Anyboard/anyboard). Anyboard games aim at blending the social nature of traditional board games with the interactivity of video […]
The Student Festival of Digital Creativity is organised by the Office of Informatics School Counselors, under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs. It is an educational festival that enables students to create and present digital projects that they have developed in their school. It is an open event to society […]
The Athens Science Festival is organized by the educational organization “Science Communication – SciCo”, the British Council, the Onassis Scholars’ Association and the General Secretariat for Research & Technology, in collaboration with various academic, research and educational institutes. It is a festival of science and innovation, where researchers, distinguished scientists, educators and artists give their […]
by Nicolas Sklavos On Monday March 26th, 2018, the activities of UMI-Sci-Ed project were presented to the students of the last year studies of Lyceums from the local region of the city of Patras, Greece. The event took place, under the “Schools go to the University Program: 2017-18”, organized by the University of Patras and […]
by Nicolas Sklavos, Ioannis Zaharakis, Achilles Kameas, and Angeliki Kalapodi The Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD 2017), was organized in Vienna, Austria during August 30 – September 1 2017, including a Special Session (SS), dedicated to “European Projects in Digital Systems Design (EPDSD)”. In the context of DSD 2017, UMI-Sci-Ed project partner, Computer […]
Innovative STEM-related activities within schools and communities are increasing, but most of them are driven by small groups with a relatively narrow focus. Consequently, the collective awareness that these activities are going on and about their importance, can be low, even within the community. Nevertheless, these activities offer good take-up potential and an opportunity for […]