Posted in Teaching and Learning on September 23, 2006 | No Comments »
One of the reasons I love teaching the types of students that I do is because I love to watch them think. When you put an interesting problem in front of them, you can actually observe the thinking process as they work through possible solutions. They work it out kinesthetically by manipulating real or envisioned [...]
Posted in NXT Pilot, Teaching and Learning on September 22, 2006 | No Comments »
Course: Intro to LEGO Robotics
Level: Community College
Time: once a week for 2.5 hours
Class Structure: Started off by talking about current events involving robotics, watched a you tube video on the “great ball contraption” as a lead in to a discussion on motion and basic behaviors. Discussed Mobile Robotics based on the ppt and then the [...]
Posted in Creating Community, Uncategorized on September 20, 2006 | No Comments »
A couple of weeks ago, someone on MySpace sent me a message about robots. Just out of the blue and pretty cool. Turns out he’s a research scientist at the local base here and has done robotics with kids before, even taking them to competitions. Very, very cool. Yesterday he came up to the college, [...]
