tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43195194382409160392024-03-18T03:49:45.914-04:00Classroom RoboticsContent for teachers and students about robotics in our world. Is robotics the Perfect Platform for 21st Century Learning? Read on!.. Would you like your student robotics activities presented here? Leave a comment or Facebook Messenger me...
Mark Gurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03634049376441028517noreply@blogger.comBlogger707125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319519438240916039.post-49317593300441885342022-06-29T12:17:00.004-04:002022-06-29T12:17:37.684-04:00Robots support autistic students in learning social skills<p> </p><div style="padding-bottom: 5px;">
<a href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/piptBXeLwKDtfVcQCifOrqCicNDqca?format=multipart" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #097abf; display: block; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 26px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Robots help students with autism learn social skills</a>
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</p><div class="yiv9505888784name-100" style="color: black; display: inline !important; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px;">Ten
students with autism recently used robots to help learn some social and
behavioral skills during a two-week Camp BLAST -- Behavior, Language,
and Sensory/Social Transition. Juliet White, student services officer
for the Beaufort County School District in South Carolina, said the
district put the program on hold at the beginning of the pandemic, but
it is growing this fall when each school is slated to have one of two
models of the robots.</div>
<span class="yiv9505888784mobile_wrap" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"> <b>Full Story: </b><a class="yiv9505888784mobile_wrap" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/piptBXeLwKDtfVcQCifOrqCicNDqca?format=multipart" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #003399; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; white-space: normal;" target="_blank">The Island Packet (Hilton Head Island, S.C.)</a><span style="color: #999999;">
(6/27)</span></span><span style="font-size: 8px;"> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 8px;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> SEE source: https://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/education/article262901353.htm</span>l</b></span></span><br /></span></p>Mark Gurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03634049376441028517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319519438240916039.post-37108625636733415112022-04-16T13:49:00.001-04:002022-04-16T13:49:08.184-04:00Kids Using Robots<p>From: The Clicbot Team</p><p> To: markgura@_____<br />Sent: Mon, Apr 11, 2022 11:00 am<br />Subject: How can you miss this wonderful time🌺?<br /><br />
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children are in isolation. A built-in camera and screen allow children
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friends when in isolation. For in-school use, this can be used for
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is a dual-curriculum school. I teach general studies to students in 1st
and 2nd grade for half of the school day, and my students spend the
other half of their days with a Hebrew teacher and a Judaics teacher.
That means I get about half the time to teach the same content that
teachers who work with students all day get.</p>
<p>One of the ways I make the most of my instructional time is by
integrating different content areas into the same lessons, sometimes in
surprising ways. This year, for example, I have been working with my
students’ Judaics teacher, Shifra Silver, to combine STEM learning with
lessons about Jewish holidays.</p>
<h2>A robot ritual</h2>
<p>This year our principal, Rabbi Zev Silver, introduced me to a
screen-free educational robot called KIBO. As we looked through
resources and lessons for using it, we came across the <a href="https://sites.tufts.edu/devtech/jewish-curricula-series/">Limudei Code-Esh</a> (LCE) project from a partnership with <a href="https://www.tufts.edu/">Tufts University</a> and the <a href="https://sulmanfund.org/">David Lear Sulman Fund</a>.
LCE is a STEAM program that integrates coding and computational
thinking through six Jewish holidays: Sukkot, Chanukkah, Tu B'shevat,
Purim, Pesach, and Yom Ha’atzmaut. It was created as a collaboration
between Tufts Professor Marina Bers, the co-creator of KIBO, and Jewish
educators from orthodox, conservative, and reform day schools and
supplemental schools,</p>
<p>We began with <a href="https://sites.tufts.edu/devtech/files/2020/03/Sukkot-Curriculum.pdf">the unit for Sukkot</a>,
which includes a ritual where participants gather a palm frond, a
myrtle leaf, and a willow branch. They bind them together to form a
bundle called a lulav, and then shake them together with a citron in
each of the cardinal directions, as well as up toward the sky and down
toward the ground, all the while walking around a table reciting a
prayer. The ritual is a reminder of the time that the Jewish people
spent wandering in the desert, and a celebration of how they found what
they needed to survive and thanked God for it.</p>
<p>Since we were more interested in ensuring the students understood the
ritual than gathering materials, my students’ Judaics teacher Shifra
Silver put together lulavs for the students with green toothpicks,
little frilly pieces that looked a bit like leaves, and yellow push pins
for the citron that would hold the whole thing together. We started by
having students program their robots to perform the shaking part of the
ritual, but expanded the focus on having them teach their robots to
“walk” around a small table called a bimah that we set up on the floor. </p><p>
We provided craft materials to the students, as well as art platforms for them to attach to the KIBO kit to carry the lulav on..</p><p> </p><p>...<em>Helen Schwartz teaches 1st and 2nd grade at the New England Jewish Academy, where she recently used <a href="https://kinderlabrobotics.com/kibo/">KIBO</a> to help her students celebrate Hannukah. She can be reached at <a href="mailto:hschwartz@neja.org">hschwartz@neja.org</a>."</em> </p>Mark Gurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03634049376441028517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319519438240916039.post-33741012341704561312021-11-27T16:14:00.006-05:002021-11-27T16:15:53.450-05:00Student Robotics to " Protect Our Animals" ....Received in my In Box, the 2021 MWRC Global Online Finals<p> </p><header aria-label="Site header" class="header" id="header" role="banner">
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<h2 class="text-align-center">Join and Protect Our Animals</h2>
<p></p><p>After three months of trials and competitions, the 2021 MWRC Global
Online Finals was successfully concluded. More than 200 teams from
around the world engaged in the competition, including Mainland China,
Singapore, Japan, Russia, Ukraine, the United States, Canada, Finland,
Hong Kong (China), UAE and Australia, etc.</p>
<p>In this competition, which was themed [Join and Protect Our Animals],
children from all over the world created various animal protection
plans by combining wonderful ideas with the topic Environmental
Protection and using their own coding works. That was amazing</p><br /><h3 class="text-align-center">Competition Review</h3>
<p>The young contestants were ingenious and their division of work was
clear. They used paper, brushes, Lego blocks and other readily available
materials to create a conservancy in their own minds.</p>
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<p>Little Matatalab guardians can be seen everywhere, whether in the jungle, in the desert or on the glacier. </p>
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<p class="text-align-center">Some were cleaning up garbage over and over on the wavy seashore. </p>
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<p class="text-align-center">Some were secretly patrolling in the jungle. </p>
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<p class="text-align-center">Some were walking between volcanoes and glaciers.</p>
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<p class="text-align-center">Some were cleaning up plastic garbage in the conservancy.</p>
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<p>Members of each team participating in the competition worked hard and
cooperated quite skillfully. It can be seen at a glance that they have
practiced a lot. No wonder the works presented were so amazing.</p>
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<p>We are so proud to see the smiling faces of the children from worldwide! </p>
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<h3 class="text-align-center">Winners </h3>
<p>There were so many participating teams, and wonderful works were
emerging one after another. Which teams would then finally stand out and
win the honors of the year?</p>
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soon as you bring a robot into a classroom, kids are already curious
and wondering and excited," says Shawn Abele, instructional technology
coordinator for Gilbert Public Schools in Arizona. However, Abele and
Jon Castelhano, the district's executive director of technology, also
know that sometimes robotics in the classroom is used merely as a fun
way to pass the time and keep kids entertained rather than an
educational tool. So when their district purchased a number of robotics
kits in 2020 to loan out to various schools and classrooms in the
district, they were determined to avoid using the devices as a gimmick.</div>
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<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q_JPeN07M2Q" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe> </p><p> <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i>From the Journal & Courier</i></span><a href="https://www.jconline.com/story/news/2021/08/21/gps-guided-robot-helps-turn-lafayettes-loeb-stadium-into-soccer-pitch/8208720002/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i> </i></span>https://www.jconline.com/story/news/2021/08/21/gps-guided-robot-helps-turn-lafayettes-loeb-stadium-into-soccer-pitch/8208720002/ </a><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Loeb Stadium is much more than just a baseball field with it being used as a commencement ceremony site, a venue for possible future concerts and now, a soccer field… </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>…The soccer field lines were painted on by field management company GPS Lining. According to GPS' website, "the world’s first and most comprehensive autonomous GPS paint robot" is used for painting the soccer field. "Intelligent One," as the robot is called, uses Global Positioning System (GPS) technology to paint concisely straight lines.
"It's a really neat process, they used a robot," Miner said. "They gave it like two GPS points and that robot would get to where the line stopped and it shut off the chalk paint and would turn around and come back."
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<p class="deck" id="ph_pcontent3_3_Deck">Physical computing with
robots for young learners offers an engaging, collaborative, creative
and standards-based approach to any makerspace program.</p>
<ul class="byline" id="ph_pcontent3_3_ByAuthor"><li class="date">By Bryan Flaig 08/12/21</li></ul>
<p>As
more students return to classrooms in the fall, they will be looking
for the kinds of hands-on activities they couldn’t experience
during distance learning. Educators will also be looking for ways to
get students problem-solving, collaborating, and sharing ideas in
ways that couldn’t happen over Zoom. Making physical computing with
robots part of a makerspaces program addresses these issues and
re-engages students in learning.
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<p>
In
my work with schools to design makerspaces and STEM programs, I’ve
found a few key features that help when introducing robots to young
learners. First, the activities should quickly engage students and
bring them into the learning process. Second, teachers should
consider time and space requirements for robotics activities to get
the most out of formal and informal learning opportunities. And
lastly, activities should be aligned to grade-level standards as much
as possible.
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<p>The
robots I’ve found most engaging for introducing pre-K–1 students
to physical computing are <a href="https://kinderlabrobotics.com/kibo/">KIBOs
from Kinderlab Robotics</a>.
Students are drawn to the tactile features — it has a wooden top
and thick plastic sides that make it approachable and easy for young
students to grip as they develop fine motor skills. It’s also
screen-free: Students program their robot with blocks that are also
made of wood, similar to building blocks.
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Finally,
KIBO doesn’t have what I call a pre-made “personality.” Some
robots designed for young learners are already an animal or have
features that limit creative imagination. It doesn’t have features
that make it easy to fit into a gender, which avoids the biases that
can push girls out of STEM. Students quickly discover that their
robot can be anything they want it to be.
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Storytelling
Hits All the Key Features</h3>
<p>
Once
students have been introduced to the parts and basic programming
features, like getting their robot to move, teachers can increase
engagement through storytelling. An introductory activity that I like
incorporates the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003SNKBXM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1">Move</a>!,
by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page.
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In
the makerspace, teachers read the story, which involves descriptions
of different animals and how they move. Students are asked to draw a
picture of an animal, either from the story or one they know about,
and tape it to the top of their robot. Then, students design a
program with motion blocks to have the robot move like their animal.
Having students work in pairs can promote productive talk, and
teachers will hear students reflecting on parts of the story as they
work to sketch and design the movement for their animal. An
assessment might involve interviewing students to find out why they
made a certain animal, how their computer program works, or how the
story influenced their project.
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I
like this activity for other reasons, too. Depending on school bell
schedules, reading and drawing can be done one day and programming
the next. Drawings can be easily stored, which helps with managing
the activity. Students can work in defined areas of the makerspace
that don’t require a lot of room. The activity relies on simple
materials: paper, crayons, and tape. There’s potential to align it
with content standards, such as reading, talking, and writing. And
there’s a high ceiling for creative thinking. I once observed two
kindergarten girls imagine KIBO as a polar bear. They built an ice
wall with the wooden programming blocks and screamed with delight
when they got their program working and the bear smashed through the
ice wall!
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4.0 is embracing robotics. However, manufacturers cannot find enough
trained robotics technicians to hire to work in their plants. There are
just not enough available graduates, which is why federal funding for
career technical education (CTE) is part of the three COVID-relief
stimulus bills. School leaders at Northeast Mississippi Community
College are very aware of the manufacturer needs in their local area.
"When we developed our program, we spoke with manufacturers in five
surrounding counties to find out what they needed," says Kyle Carpenter,
workforce trainer/workforce E-learning administrator.</div>
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coding are becoming required curriculums for middle and high school
students, yet the U.S. remains behind schedule in this area. Where many
other countries are infusing coding, robotics, and computational
thinking into their curriculums, a lot of schools here are stuck in
somewhat of a technology inertia as they look for ways to catch up.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 24pt;"><em>‘Middle school students like action, and <strong>they like things to have a purpose.’</strong></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Here are six key reasons why I see virtual coding and robotics programs becoming a mainstay in our nation’s schools:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>1. Virtual robots are just as “real” as their physical counterparts.</strong>
One day I opened up the cabinet full of robots and told my class,
“There’s $8,000 worth of robots in here, but we can’t use them because
the school district is not letting us share equipment this year.” I then
asked my hybrid schedule students to look at the robot on their
computer screens, and they noticed right away that it was the same robot
design. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So, where our
revamped robotics course may be fully online, it’s based on real-world
applications that students can relate to and engage with in a blended
learning model. Also, because I understand the <a href="https://education.lego.com/en-us/downloads/mindstorms-ev3/software">LEGO EV3</a> programming (that’s what I normally teach in my class), the transition to using the <a href="https://gocoderz.com/learn/?utm_source=PR_Byline_STEM&utm_medium=Oak_View_Middle&utm_campaign=codrez">CoderZ</a> STEM curriculum was very easy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><a class="single-image-gallery" href="https://www.edtechdigest.com/2021/07/06/6-reasons-to-make-virtual-robotics-program-a-core-part-of-your-curriculum/credit-coderz-image01/" rel="attachment wp-att-66133"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-66133 alignnone" data-attachment-id="66133" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="CREDIT CoderZ image01" data-large-file="https://i1.wp.com/www.edtechdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CREDIT-CoderZ-image01.png?fit=938%2C594&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i1.wp.com/www.edtechdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CREDIT-CoderZ-image01.png?fit=300%2C190&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i1.wp.com/www.edtechdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CREDIT-CoderZ-image01.png?fit=938%2C594&ssl=1" data-orig-size="938,594" data-permalink="https://www.edtechdigest.com/2021/07/06/6-reasons-to-make-virtual-robotics-program-a-core-part-of-your-curriculum/credit-coderz-image01/" data-recalc-dims="1" height="594" src="https://i1.wp.com/www.edtechdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CREDIT-CoderZ-image01.png?resize=938%2C594&ssl=1" width="938" /></a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>2. Virtual robotics helps students develop new skills.</strong>
Physical robots often lead kids to focus more on design and less of the
coding, science, and math skills that drive the virtual robots.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>3. They support equity in education.</strong>
Virtual robotics promote equity because every student in a district can
get access to the platform—not just those that attend a school with a
robotics platform, or that can afford an after-school club or elective.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>4. Kids can work at their own pace.</strong>
Our Computer Science/STEM curriculum provides the perfect solution for a
self-paced, flipped, or blended classroom where kids can use the same
skills that they would even if they were using real robots. Only now
there’s no hardware to worry about; it’s all online. Knowing this, I’ve
also suggested our STEM platform to other teachers who teach technology
education at other schools in our district.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 24pt;"><em>‘This is helpful as <strong>I pivot between in-class, distance, and hybrid learning…’</strong></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>5. Students love it. </strong>Our
robotics platform is engaging for students and includes a lot of
different gamification qualities. Middle school students like action,
and they like things to have a purpose. Because the STEM platform is
basically an obstacle course-based set of challenges, most of them jump
onto that and want to do well and get it right. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And
when they don’t get it right, those students are anxious to keep
improving until they do, versus seeing the coding work as an assignment
or a chore. The curriculum is instructional, but not so much so that
students get bored with it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><a class="single-image-gallery" href="https://www.edtechdigest.com/2021/07/06/6-reasons-to-make-virtual-robotics-program-a-core-part-of-your-curriculum/credit-coderz-image02/" rel="attachment wp-att-66135"><img alt="" class=" wp-image-66135 alignnone" data-attachment-id="66135" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="CREDIT CoderZ image02" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.edtechdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CREDIT-CoderZ-image02.png?fit=675%2C356&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.edtechdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CREDIT-CoderZ-image02.png?fit=300%2C158&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.edtechdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CREDIT-CoderZ-image02.png?fit=675%2C356&ssl=1" data-orig-size="675,356" data-permalink="https://www.edtechdigest.com/2021/07/06/6-reasons-to-make-virtual-robotics-program-a-core-part-of-your-curriculum/credit-coderz-image02/" data-recalc-dims="1" height="464" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.edtechdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CREDIT-CoderZ-image02.png?resize=879%2C464&ssl=1" width="879" /></a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>6. Teachers can easily track student progress and understanding.</strong>
I use the built-in scoring within the platform to track student
progress, and track the red, yellow, and green lights for every
activity. I assign points based on the completed activities and level of
comprehension. This is helpful as I pivot between in-class, distance,
and hybrid learning, as I end up spending entirely too much time writing
new activities and adjusting my current lesson plans. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This,
in turn, impacts how I manage my grading system. With our STEM program,
I can quickly review all of the progress made on mini-lessons, and
detect potential problems (i.e., not many “dots” filled in means not a
lot of work was completed). </span></p><h3><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>It’s a No-Brainer</strong></span></h3><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If
your school is trying to come up with something that you can teach in
any learning model – distance learning or in-person or a mix of both,
this coding and robotics platform is a no-brainer because it’s
structured well, engages students at a high level, and is
teacher-friendly. In fact, even a teacher without a strong background in
robotics or coding can pick the curriculum up and start using it on day
one. In return, students learn the future-ready career skills that
employers are looking for via a fun software package that’s easy to
manage and teach.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em>—</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em>Paul
Keeney is technology education and engineering instructor at Oak View
Middle School in Andover, Minn. Connect with him here: <a href="https://www.ahschools.us/domain/5540">school website</a>. </em></span></p><div class="sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled"><div class="robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing"><br /></div></div></div></article></div></div></div></div></section>Mark Gurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03634049376441028517noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319519438240916039.post-5607919347478146722021-06-14T21:12:00.006-04:002021-06-14T21:15:57.323-04:00Robots @ Amazon's Fulfillment Centers<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="240" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gVLcDNiEz9E" title="YouTube video player" width="426"></iframe>Mark Gurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03634049376441028517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319519438240916039.post-17475033422658980122021-06-04T10:51:00.005-04:002021-06-04T10:51:55.258-04:00Manicure Robot - Does the Job Fast & Cheap<p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: courier;"> (from <a href="https://ktla.com/morning-news/technology/clockwork-manicure-robot-san-francisco/" target="_blank">https://ktla.com/morning-news/technology/clockwork-manicure-robot-san-francisco/ </a>)</span></span><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>A robot is now doing manicures in San Francisco!</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> </b></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>
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</b></span><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>A company named <a href="https://www.likeclockwork.com/">Clockwork</a> says it has the world’s first nail painting robot, which paints nails in just 10 minutes.</b></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>
</b></span><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>The price? Just $8.</b></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>
</b></span><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Right now, the robot doesn’t cut or shape nails, but the website hints those features could be coming soon.</b></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>
</b></span><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>TikTok user Elissa Maercklein posted a <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@elissamaercklein/video/6967918446084443398?referer_url=https%3A%2F%2Fktla.com%2F&referer_video_id=6967918446084443398&refer=embed&is_copy_url=0&is_from_webapp=v1&sender_device=pc&sender_web_id=6963582633199044101">video</a> of the robot with the caption “living in the future.”</b></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>
</b></span><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>The company behind the bot says they design robots that “liberate people from everyday mundane tasks.”</b></span></p>Mark Gurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03634049376441028517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319519438240916039.post-55292865324000956532021-04-02T10:48:00.003-04:002021-04-02T10:48:18.733-04:00Mechatronics Degree Program Growing<p> </p><div id="article_header">
<h1>"Mechatronics Degree Program Growing at UT Chattanooga</h1>
<p class="description">Mechatronics, an interdisciplinary field
combining robotics with electrical and mechanical engineering, is an
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(TNS) — Kalen Berry began his collegiate training at Tennessee
Technology University studying to become an electrical engineer, but
after an internship with Logan Aluminum, the Knoxville native also got
interested in mechanical engineering and working with computers to make
machines and robots do more tasks.
<p>Berry's diverse engineering interests came together in the study of
mechatronics at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, which began
offering as a bachelor's in applied science degree two years ago.</p>
<p>"When I heard about what was going on at UTC, I jumped at the chance
to come here and it was a great opportunity to use all of the
engineering skills and fields I was interested in and it was great to be
able to do that in much more personalized program," said Berry, who
graduated as one of the first UTC graduates of the mechatronics
engineering program last December.</p>
<p>In July, the 25-year-old Chattanooga engineer will join Thermo Fisher
Scientific where he hopes to advance into engineering and managements
jobs in the growing field of robots, artificial intelligence and other
machine-based disciplines.</p>
<p>"Mechatronics is really key to the new applied technologies we're
seeing in manufacturing, medicine, the automotive industry and many
other businesses and there are a lot of exciting opportunities," said
Berry, who likens the field to a swiss army knife capable of many
diverse uses. "I was able at UTC to work on two published academic
articles and also start a student mechatronics club while at UTC. I
think there is a huge potential for more growth here and to do it in an
environment where you are regarded as much more than just another number
or another student."</p>
<p>As demand for mechatronics talent continues to grow, UTC's
engineering school became only the second four-year degree program in
Tennessee to offer a mechatronic engineering specialty. Ahad Nasab, head
of the Department of Engineering Management and Technology, brought the
program to UTC after creating the state's first four-year program in
mechatronics engineering at Middle Tennessee State University, starting
in 2013..."</p><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Read the full article at its source:</b></span> <a href="https://www.govtech.com/education/higher-ed/Mechatronics-Degree-Program-Growing-at-UT-Chattanooga.html?utm_term=READ%20MORE&utm_campaign=Mechatronics%20Degree%20Program%20Growing%20at%20UT%20Chattanooga&utm_content=email&utm_source=Act-On+Software&utm_medium=email ">https://www.govtech.com/education/higher-ed/Mechatronics-Degree-Program-Growing-at-UT-Chattanooga.html?utm_term=READ%20MORE&utm_campaign=Mechatronics%20Degree%20Program%20Growing%20at%20UT%20Chattanooga&utm_content=email&utm_source=Act-On+Software&utm_medium=email </a><br /></p></div></div><div class="facebook"><svg id="Layer_1" viewbox="0 0 48 48" xml:space="preserve" xmlns="//www.w3.org/2000/svg">
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<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Meet the Choreographer Behind Those Dancing Robots
</span></p><p>"With just a few days left in 2020, renowned robotics company <a href="https://www.bostondynamics.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Boston Dynamics</a> released a music video that featured a variety of two-legged, four-legged and wheeled robots <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">dancing to The Contours' "Do You Love Me</a>."
The piece swiftly went viral, and has since been viewed nearly 30
million times. The choreography is, in short, bonkers, and uncannily
illustrates the dexterity, balance and coordination of Boston Dynamics'
designs.</p><p>As is typical of corporate marketing, however, no
individual makers were credited, leaving folks in the dance community to
wonder, who choreographed that? I dug through discussions of the
project on Reddit and Twitter, learned the choreographer is Monica
Thomas, and reached out to her immediately to learn more.</p><div class="rebellt-item col1" data-basename="can-you-tell-us-a-bit-about-your-personal-dance-history" data-href="https://www.dancemagazine.com/boston-dynamics-dancing-robots-2651193214.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1" data-id="1" data-is-image="False" data-post-id="2651193214" data-published-at="1616590692" data-reload-ads="false" data-use-pagination="False" id="rebelltitem1">
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Can you tell us a bit about your personal dance history?
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<p>Yes! I was trained in the Cecchetti method, and I remained
committed to ballet through high school although I took modern, jazz and
tap classes along the way. In college, I began choreographing on my own
and with others. In my senior year two friends—Theresa Madaus and Tara
King—and I decided to make a "joke" dance. This collaboration turned out
to be really significant: After college, we formed <a href="https://www.madkingthomas.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mad King Thomas</a>, and have made dances, installations and films together for over 10 years.</p>
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Before you started working with Boston Dynamics, were you familiar with their work?
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<p>I have a strong memory of seeing BigDog being pushed over and
refind its balance, and slipping on ice but staying upright. It has
stuck with me for years. I became familiar with Boston Dynamics when I
moved back East, and was involved in the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHBcVlqpvZ8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Uptown Spot</a> project.</p>
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Can you tell us a bit about your creative process with
the robots and the technical team? How did you go from ideas to action?
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<p>Marc Raibert, the founder of Boston Dynamics, who directed
the video, sent a generous initial brief that gave me a lot of autonomy
to come up with ideas. Early in the process I consulted with my
long-term collaborators to flesh out conceptual and musical ideas. I
would then bring these back to Marc. We ended up choosing "Do You Love
Me?," which we both found appealing.</p><p>I spent time watching the
robots move to get a sense of joint flexibility, etc. I then made a
dance on my body to act out each part. I hired dancers to learn this
choreography, which allowed it to be put together in one sequence for
filming. I gave a video of the whole dance to Boston Dynamics, as well
as each robot's part (except <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iV_hB08Uns" target="_blank">Handle</a>—I tried to choreograph Handle using a hoverboard and mostly made myself nauseous)..."</p><p><i><b><span style="color: #660000;"> Read the full article at its source:</span></b></i> <a href="https://www.dancemagazine.com/boston-dynamics-dancing-robots-2651193214.html">https://www.<span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><b>dancemagazine</b></span>.com/boston-dynamics-dancing-robots-2651193214.html </a><br /></p>Mark Gurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03634049376441028517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319519438240916039.post-42045347887203732612021-03-24T16:07:00.005-04:002021-03-24T16:10:19.008-04:00MISSION TO MARS: students build Mars rovers <p><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> From</b> </span><a href="https://www.newsandtribune.com/news/mission-to-mars-henryville-students-build-mars-rovers/article_b2905a4e-88df-11eb-ab26-5f74825e284f.html "><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.<span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><b>newsandtribune.com</b></span>/<br /></span>news/mission-to-mars-henryville-students-build-mars-rovers/article_b2905a4e-88df-11eb-ab26-5f74825e284f.html </a><br /></span><span><span class="tnt-byline asset-byline" data-original-title="" id="author-popup-296153d2-565d-11e5-9b37-2bba11338ec0-asset-b2905a4e-88df-11eb-ab26-5f74825e284f" itemprop="author" rel="popover" title=""><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.newsandtribune.com/users/profile/Aprile%20Rickert">By APRILE RICKERT
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"MISSION TO MARS: Henryville students build Mars rovers"
</span></h1><div class="asset-masthead"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOYO4WIlSPpadg42FNaSybhyphenhyphenpJdRolMz7gJMVrHLp5vH3copUKMEUp5WHHORibdQHgFfn5CnFmAimvo14nXXpTmydC6fYHYlmBlN2HapIgxdJkIkljH4o6mrJeG6CUZt13Enmq475jJpHO/s671/Rover.2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="671" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOYO4WIlSPpadg42FNaSybhyphenhyphenpJdRolMz7gJMVrHLp5vH3copUKMEUp5WHHORibdQHgFfn5CnFmAimvo14nXXpTmydC6fYHYlmBlN2HapIgxdJkIkljH4o6mrJeG6CUZt13Enmq475jJpHO/w541-h399/Rover.2.JPG" width="541" /></a></div><br /><p>"HENRYVILLE — NASA’s latest mission to Mars is providing a unique
experience for Henryville High School students to learn about what it
takes to make a rover successful on the red planet, which educators say
they hope can help inspire students toward future careers.</p><p>Students
in teacher Donna Gatza’s Biology classes are spending seven weeks of
their 18-week semester on a series of projects related to the Mars rover
Perseverance, which launched July 30 and landed Feb. 21 in the Jezero
Crater on Mars. The mission’s aim is to seek signs of ancient life and
collect rock and soil samples, potentially to take back to Earth.</p><p>“NASA
has provided all kinds of incredible activities for the kids to learn
hands-on, to be exposed to different careers, to be experienced to
different things,” Gatza said. “Until this happened, how many people
knew there was a thing called Astrobiology? It’s important to get the
kids excited about something and out of their books.”</p>
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lesson plans and activities have included students building their own
rovers. Working in teams, they selected the size and type of materials
(made from dried pasta) based on their budget, then designed and built
the rovers using an app on their Chromebooks.</p><p>“[They] had to pick a
launch system, there was budget in this and everything has a cost,” the
teacher said. “So they had to design their entire mission based on what
they had a budget for. And then there were some funky things like they
missed a launch date, the government cut their funding — the things that
really happen.”</p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /><b>Read the full article at its source:</b></span><b> </b><a href="https://www.newsandtribune.com/news/mission-to-mars-henryville-students-build-mars-rovers/article_b2905a4e-88df-11eb-ab26-5f74825e284f.html" target="_blank">https://www.newsandtribune.com/news/mission-to-mars-henryville-students-build-mars-rovers/article_b2905a4e-88df-11eb-ab26-5f74825e284f.html <br /></a><header class="asset-header"><br /><span></span>
</header></div><span></span><span></span>Mark Gurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03634049376441028517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319519438240916039.post-67031338976220649292021-03-02T16:34:00.002-05:002021-03-02T16:37:28.854-05:00Challenges with remote learning? The first is engagement!!! Student Robotics in the Age of COVID<p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>From EdSurge</b></span><br /><a href="https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-01-26-how-leveraging-curiosity-may-keep-students-engaged-from-afar">https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-01-26-how-leveraging-curiosity-may-keep-students-engaged-from-afar </a></span><br /><br /></p><h3 class="mt0 large-mb0_5 small-mb0_25 roboto medium top-section caps"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"How Leveraging Curiosity May Keep Students Engaged From Afar"</span><br /></span><br /></h3><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Faith Bongiorno began her teaching career as an “art-on-the-cart”
educator. But that changed one day when her son told her he wanted to
participate in <i>FIRST</i>Ⓡ LEGOⓇ League, a robotics program created through an alliance between <a href="https://www.firstinspires.org/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"><i>FIRST</i></a>Ⓡ
(For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) and LEGOⓇ
Education. Curiosity piqued, she presented the program to her principal,
worked to secure funding and stepped up to coach the after-school
program. </span></p><aside class="aside-pullquote"><figure class="figure-pullquote no-caption"><blockquote class="pullquote"><span style="font-size: medium;">Being one educator that engages 30 kids online effectively is a challenge.</span></blockquote></figure></aside><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This
newfound passion led Bongiorno to transition to teaching general
technology in the classroom and, eventually, robotics. Now, she’s a
full-time education implementation specialist for <i>FIRST</i> and
still works closely with a number of robotics teams in her area,
including some high school seniors who were on her original team nine
years ago. And, just like other educators, she’s been working hard to
keep kids in the program engaged and safe from afar.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Bongiorno spoke with us about her experience with <i>FIRST</i>, STEM education and navigating remote instruction—as both an educator and parent—during the COVID-19 pandemic.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-size: medium;"><b>EdSurge: What challenges are you seeing with remote learning?</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-size: medium;"><b>Bongiorno: </b>The
first is engagement.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> Being one educator that engages 30 kids online
effectively is a challenge. For the students, it’s a challenge to feel
comfortable and, as <a href="https://brenebrown.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Brené Brown</a> says, to be vulnerable and brave to step out into that arena...."<br /><br /><i><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Read the rest of this article at its source:</span></span></i> <a href="https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-01-26-how-leveraging-curiosity-may-keep-students-engaged-from-afar" target="_blank">https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-01-26-how-leveraging-curiosity-may-keep-students-engaged-from-afar </a><br /></span></p><h3 class="mt0 large-mb0_5 small-mb0_25 roboto medium top-section caps"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><br /></h3>Mark Gurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03634049376441028517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319519438240916039.post-82243071991502560482020-04-18T12:37:00.000-04:002020-04-18T12:37:12.860-04:00Remote STEAM Learning... <span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Great LEGO Stuff from my In Box / </span></b></span><a href="https://www.techlearning.com/how-to/how-its-done-remote-steam-learning-with-lego-bingo-boards?utm_source=Selligent&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=16780&utm_content=T%26L+Remote+Learning+4%2F17%2F20+&utm_term=1272672&m_i=_ybcXjkbG0le6X3CEbbRUm_FtkzAyJbTPF0a0rhKFfy5gHYJD80KVs3UcVKiCRb97Q78KS2RBW1cC3dmn3gLcaiON1unqNr__V&M_BT=810043649812" target="_blank">TECH&LEARNING</a><br /><br />
"How It's Done: Remote STEAM Learning with LEGO Education Bingo Boards<br />
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<span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder">(Image credit: Erik Murray)</span></figcaption><figcaption itemprop="caption description"><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder"> </span></figcaption><figcaption itemprop="caption description"><strong>Who</strong>: Erik Murray, Middle School STEM Teacher, LEGO Education Master Educator<br />
<strong>Where</strong>: <a class="hawk-link-parsed" data-component-tracked="11" data-dimension73="4809386592274219000" href="https://www.lexingtonma.gov/home/pages/lexington-public-schools" target="_blank">Lexington Public Schools</a>, Lexington, MA<br />
<aside class="hawk-widget" data-render-type="fte" data-widget-type="seasonal"></aside><strong>What</strong>: Creating LEGO Education Bingo Boards to help educators and parents teach STEAM at home<br />
As
schools across the country began to close in response to COVID-19, my
first thought, like thousands of other teachers across the world, was,
“How can I supplement my teaching so my students can continue to learn
during these unusual times.” You see, I’m a middle school STEM teacher,
which means I’m used to providing my students with hands-on, tactical
projects. I’m used to pushing my students to build robots, having my
students work in groups and build together. How was I going to continue
pushing my students to get hands-on and think like an engineer while
they were at home?<br />
Not all students have access to
computers, but it’s still important they continue to have hands-on
projects, just like in the classroom, to keep them engaged and excited. I
connected with our 6th grade math teacher to think through ways for
educators –- and parents -– to continue teaching STEAM skills at home in
a fun, interactive way.<br />
Before schools closed, we just started using the new <a class="hawk-link-parsed" data-component-tracked="11" data-dimension105="13275" data-dimension14="lego.com" data-dimension73="4542292511647753700" data-hawk-tracked="hawklinks" data-hl-processed="hawklinks" data-label="LEGO Education SPIKE Prime" data-original-href="https://education.lego.com/en-us/products/lego-education-spike-prime-set/45678#product" href="https://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=kXQk6%2AivFEQ&mid=24340&u1=techlearning-4542292511647753700&murl=https%3A%2F%2Feducation.lego.com%2Fen-us%2Fproducts%2Flego-education-spike-prime-set%2F45678%23product" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">LEGO Education SPIKE Prime</a>
kits in our classroom to get students learning STEAM skills through
hands-on learning. It was a great tool because it provided low-floor,
high-ceiling tasks such as the Hopper Race, in which you design
prototypes to find the most effective way to move a robot without
wheels, to more difficult projects such as <a class="hawk-link-parsed" data-component-tracked="11" data-dimension105="13275" data-dimension14="lego.com" data-dimension73="9388921104672102000" data-hawk-tracked="hawklinks" data-hl-processed="hawklinks" data-label="Design for Someone" data-original-href="https://education.lego.com/en-us/lessons/prime-invention-squad/design-for-someone" href="https://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=kXQk6%2AivFEQ&mid=24340&u1=techlearning-9388921104672102000&murl=https%3A%2F%2Feducation.lego.com%2Fen-us%2Flessons%2Fprime-invention-squad%2Fdesign-for-someone" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Design for Someone</a>, in which students could stretch their STEAM skills by trying to solve real-world problems.<br />
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I
wanted to replicate the same hands-on and low-floor, high-ceiling
experience for all my students -- and students around the world.
Something that allows students feel confident in the projects they were
completing at home.<br />
When
looking at the way SPIKE Prime lessons are set up, you’ll see that
basic instructions are provided, but students are encouraged to use
their creativity to make their own unique creations by placing the
bricks differently or writing a different code. I wanted to bring that
approach to remote STEAM learning, <span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder">..."</span></figcaption><figcaption itemprop="caption description"><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder"> </span></figcaption><figcaption itemprop="caption description"><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder"><br /><span style="color: #660000;"><b>Read the full article at its source</b></span></span><span style="color: #660000;"><b>: </b></span><a href="https://www.techlearning.com/how-to/how-its-done-remote-steam-learning-with-lego-bingo-boards?utm_source=Selligent&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=16780&utm_content=T%26L+Remote+Learning+4%2F17%2F20+&utm_term=1272672&m_i=_ybcXjkbG0le6X3CEbbRUm_FtkzAyJbTPF0a0rhKFfy5gHYJD80KVs3UcVKiCRb97Q78KS2RBW1cC3dmn3gLcaiON1unqNr__V&M_BT=810043649812" target="_blank"><b>https://www.techlearning.com/how-to/how-its-done-remote-steam-learning-with-lego-bingo-board</b>s<span style="font-size: xx-small;">?utm_source=Selligent&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=16780&utm_content=T%26L+Remote+Learning+4%2F17%2F20+&utm_term=1272672&m_i=_ybcXjkbG0le6X3CEbbRUm_FtkzAyJbTPF0a0rhKFfy5gHYJD80KVs3UcVKiCRb97Q78KS2RBW1cC3dmn3gLcaiON1unqNr__V&M_BT=810043649812 </span></a><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder"></span>
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