Kids Learn Math and Science at Home with Robotics Kits

Providing home-schooled kids with rich, engaging, and relevant STEM activities is a challenge. With LEGO Robotics, though, home-schooled students can be deeply involved in real-world applications of Science, Math, Engineering, and Technology - Computer programming becomes a fun and enlightening game, as well. All of this is accomplished in a practical manner. Robotics represents the best sort of  hands-on/minds-on, 21st Century Learning. For the modest cost of a LEGO Robotics kit, several students can be given wonderful, STEM Learning rich experiences.



Robotics for Kids: Great video from NASA Jet Propulsion Lab  Education

"...They do need  good solid Math and Science backgrounds... so, of course, encourage them to do their Math and Science..."

Nothing will encourage students to learn Math and Science better than offering them motivating, relevant ways to apply them. From both the kids' and the educators' points of view, robotics is the perfect application!


"... Starting as early as 3rd grade you can buy a robotics kit for your child to use at home..."

"...it actually develops the skills they would use in a robotics or engineering career."

LEGO Robotics is perfect for Home Schooling kids - It ensures they acquire a sophisticated understanding of STEM subject matter!
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Everything you need to know about working with, or simply supporting, kids in  learning with Robotics. No Science or Engineering background needed!

Click on book cover for information on Getting Started with LEGO Robotics.

Anyone who works with kids can do LEGO Robotics, a rich and highly motivating platform for important STEM Learning! (surprisingly affordable, too) This books explains it all!

Check out ROBOTICS for TEACHERS Podcast
www.roboticsforteachers.com

Robot Rent-A-Cop Developed to Keep Schools Safe and Secure

A California company may provide security robots to schools...



"A Night Watchman With Wheels?"

"The night watchman of the future is five feet tall, weighs 300 pounds and looks a lot like R2D2 — without the whimsy. And will work for $6.25 an hour.

A company in California has developed a mobile robot, known as the K5 Autonomous Data Machine, as a safety and security tool for corporations, as well as for schools and neighborhoods.

“We founded Knightscope after what happened at Sandy Hook,” said William Santana Li, a co-founder of that technology company, now based in Sunnyvale, Calif. “You are never going to have an armed officer in every school.”

But what is for some a technology-laden route to safer communities and schools is to others an entry point to a post-Orwellian, post-privacy world.

“This is like R2D2’s evil twin,” said Marc Rotenberg, the director of the Electronic Privacy and Information Center, a privacy rights group based in Washington..."

 

Read the full article at its  source:  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/03/science/coming-soon-a-night-watchman-with-wheels.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0