Representations to go: learning robotics, learning by robotics

We present the first steps of a pioneering didactic approach addressed to primary and secondary school: usually detached in the Educational Robotics literature, the learning of robotics and through robotics are here rejoined. This approach is rooted in constructivism and invites children to become authors of their own learning tools rather than merely users. Visual representations of didactic content and mobile robots are the items to be constructed by the supervised children. A methodological analogy is set between the construction and manipulation of these two items: they are both subjects of a problem solving procedure whose results are supposed to affect each other. A scenario is proposed to assess our approach and to set the basis of an educational program and tool-artifact. Future works will focus on the validity of this approach and to ultimately verify the impact of technology on children skills improvements with relation to engagement, visually content organization, and aware interaction with technology.