Reflections and Recommendations on Design, Implementation of Learning Activities and Assessment of Target Competences in Educational Robotics Contexts

Whatever it concerns young learners or older ones, Educational Robotics and Computational and Algorithmic Thinking (CAT) share common target competences. The case of training teacher students of a master in educational sciences is illustrated. This course (Introduction to CAT) exploited resources pro-duced through a participatory design process during the EU Erasmus+ PIAF pro-ject dedicated to the CAT development. A basic principle is observed in the de-sign of learning scenarios: respecting pedagogical alignment between target com-petences, learning activities and evaluation. Field testing of educational scenarios with the target publics and their adaptation offer sharable resources (potentially adaptable) by other « trainers » (teachers, animators). A particular attention is de-dicated to a roadbook use to enhance metacognition and follow the collaborative design of an educational scenario by our students and to observe the acceptability of the PIAF resources. Recommendations are provided about trainers’ training, competences, learning methods and evaluation, introduction in curricula.