Jure Pikl: Lego robotika / Lego robotics
15. 11.2017
ACE KIBLA / Kiblix 2017

Jure Pikl (1984), a professor of physics and technical education at the Primož Trubar Elementary School in Laško. Apart from his formal employment, he is also actively engaged in non-formal education, working as a part-time children’s teacher/instructor of robotics who believes, as he puts it, in bringing the technical world as close to children as possible in a fun and relaxed way. He also emphasizes that technical education in schools is becoming less and less interesting for children, who “fail to resolve problems in the sense of assembling and

disassembling constructions, logical reasoning, step-by-step problem solving, etc.”

 

The Lego Robotics Workshop deals with the topic of animal migrations and the changes in our natural environment. Through play (building and dismantling Lego bricks) and programming, the children learn about the theme of animal migrations by constructing and designing various settings and environments. With the help of programming, the animals come alive and begin to move, which simulates the natural processes of migration. According to the workshop mentor Jure Pikl there isn’t a child in the world that would not know how to play with Legos, or be able to learn it in a very short period of time. The ideas are already there, in their minds, and the ideas are what matters the most, while the processes of assembling and programming encourage the children’s innovativeness and independency.