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Building wings
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Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 80% 52/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice
This is an experimental educational robotics project dedicated to children with specific learning disorders (DSA). It involves at least three classes of the Viale dei Consoli Comprehensive Institute, in the Tuscolano district of the capital. The goal is to transform a mobile robo
Details
- Promoter
- Fondazione Mondo Digitale — website
- Type
- Service
- Status
- Ongoing
- Target groups
- Marginalised young people and children
- People reached
- 100
- People targeted
- 100
- Period
- 2020-01-01
- Region (NUTS)
ITI4- Keywords
- Learning disabilities, children, robotics
Context
Building Wings (Costruire le Ali) is an experimental educational robotics project run by Fondazione Mondo Digitale (FMD) for children with specific learning disorders (DSA), involving at least three classes at the Viale dei Consoli Comprehensive Institute in the Tuscolano district of Rome. FMD's mission is to promote an inclusive knowledge society, focusing on groups at risk of exclusion. The project is funded by the Lazio Region.
Objectives
Transform a mobile robot into a smart toy that captures participants' attention through coordinated, synchronised interaction with the environment, turning robots into interactive social mediators for children with learning disorders.
Activities
Uses a cooperative, constructivist "learning by doing" methodology facilitated by a teacher expert in educational robotics. Real robots used include Bee-bot (an entry-level robot toy for kindergarten/early primary that teaches basic programming and spatial logic) and Lego Mindstorm/simple LEGO models programmed via computer. A "firtual" methodology combines virtual and physical teaching, extended through an online robotic community for children with disabilities and their families on the Phyrtual.org social-innovation platform.
Conclusions
No formal evaluation of the project has been carried out ("Evaluation: No"), so outcomes are not independently documented.
Implementation
- Indicative cost
- Low (< €50k)
- Time to results
- Medium (1–3 years)
- Staffing & skills
- Facilitator teacher, expert in educational robotics (Fondazione Mondo Digitale)
Conditions for success
- Funding from the Lazio Region
- Partnership with Viale dei Consoli Comprehensive Institute
- Online community platform (Phyrtual.org) extending support to children and families beyond the classroom
Commonly funded by
National / regional programmes
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Data sources
Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.
- MEDICI / Digital Inclusion Atlas — accessed 2026-06-14
- Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14
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