CHANGING CLASSROOMS WITH ROBOTS EDUCATION UNBOUND
Imagine as a kid you walk into a classroom and you see robots all over your desks and if that child is not excited.
I'm guessing they will be excited either people have compared the current model of education.
Where students come in get knowledge walk out with knowledge to a model that was and that was developed for and designed for and really suited for the industrial age
Where the purpose of the educational system was to make sure that people were prepared for factory work and what is fact you worked actually work means working very much like machine.
That is not what people's role is today we have machines to do the machine work and so educate people to the machine work is both not interesting to them and largely an unproductive use of time.
Purpose of the robotics education is to develop an education outreach which develops a lot of sort of large-scale technologies so what we do is we take the same technologies may try and make him in an apple crumble form.
Students and teachers to be able to sort of teach the same ideas in their classroom using different types of sensors in robot to venture sleep turn into teaching
The concept of STEAM which stands for science technology engineering and mathematics it would be difficult to predict what the fastest growing innovation will be five years from now.
But we can with more confidence we can predict that it's going to involve computer science embedded systems applied mathematics and engineering design you can learn all the same concepts that robots can teach on paper.
You know if you take a look at a wheel of you can figure out that there's a circumference of that we'll be delivering it see a physical application.
Being able to take those concepts are usually very abstract and then be able to show students that will play till this bill to rotate goes this specific distance.
We can calculate and figure out why it went the distance our materials are designed to be student driven the teacher monitored.
So one of our outreach things that we do is we go to the Science Center  and will do like an hour workshop with middle school kids who will take a little maze will take the robots me candy bars.
And we always say alright first person finished maze is able to do it but the copy out is that you know there's usually two of us they go and they have to run the maze so that both of us see it will be on the different sides of the room.
What happens is that the robot will run perfectly fine for the first time and it fails miserably. The second time they get so angry because they like we're so close it's a good way to teach students that not everything is gonna
go correctly lots of classrooms don't have.
Enough robots for students so what we try to do with the robot virtual world software is emulate exactly what the student does with a real robot.
But in a simulated environment is two and is the place where teachers and educators can go and get activities for their students.
And a lot of the stuff we offer free all of the technology that we're developing will phone home to CS two and so the teachers can log in and actually see the exact progress of all of their students.
We have what's called badges or achievements that's exciting because when they get you know I got five questions right they get excited about that bill a lot of the critical thinking and problem solving skills that you develop working on a robot challenger problem you're able to apply this in real life provides.
It's an easy way to get them excited and to get them into using the skills.
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