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Control technology is a new learning environment which offers the
opportunity to take up the economic and educational challenge of enabling
people to adapt to new technologies and use them to solve problems. Giving young children (and also adults) easy access to control
technology introduces them to a learning environment where they
can build their knowledge across a range of topics. As they build and
program their own automata and robots, they learn to solve problems, work incollaboration, and be creative. They also learn more about science,
electronics, physics, computer literacy, computer assisted manufacturing,
and so on. This book, based on a NATO Advanced Research Workshop in
the Special Programme on Advanced Educational Technology, presents a
cross-curricular approach to learning about control technology. The
recommended methodology is active learning, where the teacher’s role is to stimulate the learner to build knowledge by providing him/her
with appropriate materials (hardware and software) and suggestions to
develop the target skills. The results are encouraging, although more tools are needed to help the learner to generalize from his/her concrete
experiment in control technology as well as to evaluate its effect on
the target skills. The contributions not only discuss epistemological
controversies linked to such learning environments as control technology,
but also report on the state of the art and new developments in the field
and present some stimulating ideas.
