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 NuffieldD&T |
Robots and STEM
Apr 22 2008, 5:04 PM EDT A child or young person can use a given robot to achieve learning in a variety of subjects through a range of educational tasks. A child or young person can build a robot that someone else has designed and programme it to perform useful functions. A child or young person can design and make a robot for their own purposes and programme it to meet these purposes. And of course pupils can carry out each of these three sorts of activity across all key stages. And not just STEM – David Levy ahs written a book “Love + Sex with Robots – (The evolution of human-robot relationships – not quite so catchy) so some down and dirty PSHE as well. Visit http://www.nuffieldcurriculumcentre.org/go/CurriculumIssues/Issue_384.html to find out more and let me know what you think. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
 dch1257 |
RE: Robots and STEM
May 1 2008, 11:49 AM EDT Hi David, yes go for it. Robots are a great way of exploring STEM themes. Among the ideas I could see being further developed are: * use of logo turtles: http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/logo/turtle.html *lego NexT robots: http://mindstorms.lego.com/eng/Overview/default.aspx and *Bamzooki: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/bamzooki/ What do other think? Do you find this valuable? |
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NuffieldD&T |
Robots and Insect Olympics
May 14 2008, 6:18 PM EDT Check out this site for a toothbrush insect - we have got to put this in our stuff somewhere http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/12/how_to_make_a_bristlebot.html 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
 tsteeg |
RE: Robots and Insect Olympics (bristlebots)
May 17 2008, 5:49 AM EDT Essentially this is the TEP jitterbug made small and cool. Since it was first posted on the Make blog there has been a rash of variants: RC bristlebot: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/04/rc_bristlebot.html Bristlebot 2.0 (with speed control): http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/01/bristlebot_20.html Bristlebot as a cleaner (made me wonder about a floor brush bristlebot...): http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/03/build_a_bristlebot_to_cle.html bristlebot snail: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/01/bristlebot_racing_snail.html IC bristlebot: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/03/ic_bristlebot.html I'm sure I saw something about using them to make random paintings as well - can't find it now.... Do you find this valuable? |
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tsteeg |
RE: Robots and STEM
May 17 2008, 6:18 AM EDT Not sure if this counts as robots - but probably does if Bamzooki does. Phun (www.phun.at) is a physics 'playground' created by a Swedish CompSci major as his Master of Science thesis. I think it's kind of interesting, certainly provides links between physics, M & T - and you can get a Mac version now David.... Do you find this valuable? |
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tsteeg |
RE: Robots and Insect Olympics (bristlebots)
May 17 2008, 6:22 AM EDT Random painting with bristlebots: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/05/itp_show_brushbots_paint.html Do you find this valuable? |
