Code: Poppy Education 4
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Job title: Engineer for pedagogical design and experimentation of educational activities in robotics
Experience: up to 8 years after engineering/university diploma
Duration: 12 to 24 months
Mission
Design, experiment and disseminate educational activities based on the Poppy robotic platform
Job description:
- Analyze the educational needs of several populations of users (high-school students, university students, FafLab members, …)
- Design pedagogical sequences and scenarios of activities targeted to different populations of students, based on visual programming and python programming tools
- Initiate contacts with users for experimentation
- Evaluate pedagogical activities in real contexts of use (in schools, universities and FabLabs)
- Produce integrated polished multimedia documents embedding “ready to use” pedagogical content
- Produce multimedia content to publicize educational uses of the platform
- Participate to events to promote educational uses of the platform
Candidate profile: - Experience in teaching computer science and technology
- Experience in user-centered methodologies
- Experience in python programming language (or other scripting languages)
- Familiarity with Scratch like visual, drag-and-drop programming language
- Interest in interdiciplinary collaborations (education, science, art, makers)
- Creative thinking to design motivating learning scenarios