When you're too robotic and scripted, the students tune you out. So I always tried to use different learning modalities - kinesthetic, auditory, visual, whatever might bring learning to life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you wanted to design a robot that could learn as well as it possibly could, you might end up with something that looked a lot like a 3-year-old.
I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence.
I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.
My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.
Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.
Our robots are signing up for online learning. After decades of attempts to program robots to perform complex tasks like flying helicopters or surgical suturing, the new approach is based on observing and recording the motions of human experts as they perform these feats.
We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.
Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.
I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.
A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don't teach on purpose, but I'm glad that it happens sometimes.