Publications de Alberto Piatti

FADE-CTP: A Framework for the Analysis and Design of Educational Computational Thinking Problems

Francesco Mondada, Engin Walter Bumbacher, Alberto Piatti

In recent years, the emphasis on computational thinking (CT) has intensified as an effect of accelerated digitalisation. While most researchers are concentrating on defining CT and developing tools for its instruction and assessment, we focus on the charac ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

The CT-cube: A framework for the design and the assessment of computational thinking activities

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Alberto Piatti

Computational thinking is a fundamental competence that is being introduced in K-12 and succeeding curricula worldwide. Despite this huge effort, many computational thinking models in the literature do not explicitly take into consideration the pupils’ age ...

2022

Aligning the Design of Educational Robotics Tools With Classroom Activities

Francesco Mondada, Christian Giang, Alberto Piatti

This chapter addresses the alignment of educational robotics (ER) tools with classroom activities. To this end, it first introduces a conceptualization of ER activities describing the relevant cognitive artifacts and the learning theories underlying such a ...

IGI Global2021

Fostering computational thinking through educational robotics: a model for creative computational problem solving

Francesco Mondada, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Christian Giang, Alberto Piatti

Background: Educational robotics (ER) is increasingly used in classrooms to implement activities aimed at fostering the development of students’ computational thinking (CT) skills. Though previous works have proposed different models and frameworks to desc ...

2020

A Tangible Programming Language for the Educational Robot Thymio

Francesco Mondada, Andrea Mussati, Christian Giang, Alberto Piatti

In the past, the use of tangible programming languages has shown several advantages compared to screen-based graphical programming languages. Especially when presented to novices, such interfaces may represent a more intuitive and straightforward alternati ...

2019

Heuristics for the Development and Evaluation of Educational Robotics Systems

Francesco Mondada, Christian Giang, Alberto Piatti

Contribution: While previous research has studied the use of educational robotics in classrooms, there is still a lack of methods to support the development and evaluation of such tools. To this end, this paper presents an evaluation framework and a corres ...

2019