Agora Portals International School ->
Pedagogy, technology and inspiring spaces
This private school will be the spearhead for all Agora International schools in Spain and Andorra with the inauguration of this new classroom of more than 180m2 which comprises the most advanced technology as well as the tools to develop the new subject “Technology, robotics and coding” aimed at pupils from the age of 5 to 4th of ESO. As Rafael Barea, head of Agora Portals, points out, “The Agora Innovation Centre arises from the educational need to rethink the design of the traditional classroom towards a versatile and reconfigurable school space organised into different learning areas which allow interaction, research, development, exchange, creation and presentation of activities and resources”. In the design of classrooms and all the educational activities to be carried out in them, three basic pillars must be guaranteed: pedagogy, technology and inspiring spaces, where each element only makes sense through its conjunction with the rest. This new innovative space of 180m2 is specially designed to allow students and teachers to develop their full potential by incorporating the latest educational tools such as 3D printers, laser cutters, virtual reality glasses, robots, etc… enabling our students to develop computational thinking and encourages imagination and creativity. Therefore, from the 2023-24 academic year, computational thinking will be introduced as part of the curriculum in all years from Infant 5 to 4th of ESO, with the implementation of the subject “Technology, Robotics & Coding”, so that we will resolutely promote digital competence in pupils, with a commitment to innovation and entrepreneurship. Similarly, this innovative space is going to develop a Space Week, in fact, a group of pupils from Agora Portals are going to take part in a project which is unprecedented until now, as at the beginning of next year they will be able to enjoy a week at NASA. The novelty that will most impress students and teachers is the incorporation of a robot in the classroom: AINSTEIN JUNIOR. Ainstein Junior is an educational platform focused on STEAM education, which integrates 3D printing, Raspberry Pi and Python programming with artificial intelligence. Its mission is to empower students and teachers to understand, develop and innovate using AI.
