Roamer Robot in Portugal
Inês Cardoso · 2005
For a long time, many schools in Portugal have begun using Roamer Robot in their classroom activities. Roamer is an autonomous robot that can be used by a group of children in their activities. Using this ICT tool, it is possible to develop many of the essential skills presented in the scholar curriculum. Mathematics is the subject that this ICT can help the most, but skills from all curriculum areas can be put together in the same activity. For all this, Roamer Robot is a flexible tool and can cross all curriculum areas. In Portugal, this is the only ICT used in classrooms having specific characteristics; the other ICT’s always depend on having a computer where they can be played. As well as CNOTINFOR represents the Roamer Robot, its team has been training and supporting projects that involve the use of this robot in schools in a very innovative way. In this paper, we intend to show examples of what has been done with Roamer Robot in Portugal and what people from the educational community think about it.