{"id":14799,"date":"2024-01-25T14:40:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T19:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kativik.qc.ca\/?p=14799"},"modified":"2025-12-09T13:48:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:48:38","slug":"computer-programming-and-robotics-in-nunavik-the-ajagutak-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kativik.qc.ca\/en\/computer-programming-and-robotics-in-nunavik-the-ajagutak-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer programming and robotics in Nunavik: the Ajagutak model"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/12″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”10\/12″][vc_column_text]Ajagutak school, in Tasiujaq, recently attracted media attention<\/a> for its educational activities integrating computer programming and robotics into science and math instruction.<\/p>\n

As part of one of these activities, three researchers and two pedagogical counsellors came from the South to support the teaching team in exploring the pedagogical potential of such an initiative.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”white” style=”dashed” border_width=”4″ el_width=”60″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/12″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/12″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”10\/12″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Teaching programming and robotics at the secondary level, really?<\/h2>\n

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Students like it, students like it! We live in a technological world and I think that students like it when we take an interest in this stuff. When they do that, they’re happy. You can’t imagine. In fact, they always want to do this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/div>\n

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\n Said Khirani<\/span> Teacher at Ajagutak School, Tasiujaq.<\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n \"\"\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/12″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”10\/12″][vc_column_text]We met Said Khirani in April 2023, in Tasiujaq. It seemed to us that he was already engaged in a number of projects and was deploying a whole range of activities to motivate and interest his students.<\/p>\n

Said has a particular gift for mixing different subjects together in a way that captivates his audience. From mathematics to learning a new programming language, through history and biology to robotics: all these seemingly unrelated subjects are logically linked here.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow they know what a proximity sensor and a range sensor are, for example. They understand, they’ve studied it. It’s a great motivation for the students to show the link between science and robotics, robotics and science.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/12″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]

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\n \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/12″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”10\/12″][vc_column_text]This was the first year that Said introduced robotics in the classroom. As with the rest of his teaching activities, he puts a great deal of emphasis on adapting his teaching strategies to his students:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn so doing, you have to bear in mind, above all, that some students are autonomous. They’ll pick it up in a flash. Others need time, so you have to go slowly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Should we then lower our expectations of maths and science? Of course not! The subjects under study are channelled into encompassing and stimulating projects.<\/p>\n

Passionate, curious and self-confident: this teacher from Ajagutak seems to have found the formula for ensuring that his secondary school students leave school with a wealth of life skills, knowledge and know-how firmly anchored in modern times.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/12″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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