Teaching Educational Technology it´s the best way to stimulate students to reach and discover that study is fun, interactive and challenging.
I worked in projects of Technology in Education with LEGO ROBOTICS http://www.lego.com/education/school/default.asp?l1id for ten years. This experience has shown me teaching is about inspiring students using challenge to fulfill them and to enjoy everything they did and learned.
Many students don´t like Science and Math because they're very abstract or they need to memorize many formulas, but if you use a technological tool then they can make projects that involve the practical use of Physic and Math to solve problems in an easy way.
In projects with LEGO Robotics, the students have to prepare a plan to organize their team indicating roles and responsibilities for each member, then build and program the robot to perform tasks like move an object to specific area. For this they need to calculate the speed and angle of rotation for the robot, estimate if the value of the light sensor must be higher or lower to use it to find the specific relocation area. At the end the project the team needs to make a report.
During all this process the students are so excited, involved and participating actively and easily learning developmental skills in many disciplines.
Other good example for teams that want something more challenging activities, exist at FLL Robotics Championship http://first.wpi.edu/FLL/fll10video.hml that involve projects of worldwide interest.
Finally I believe that I need to be a good facilitator for our students and stimulate them to consider learning as fun and challenging activity.
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- Madaly
- I'm from Peru, the land of Incas and I studied informatics in my country, after finished my studies I worked in LEGO Robotics projects, it is a wonderful way to teach technology and development students skills in different areas of education. I had the opportunity to work training teacher in Uruguay, Mexico and shared the great work development in Brazil for two years. I'm married and have two busy boys, I love my family and I'm so happy for share about the technology in education and LEGO Robotics.
Madaly, your experience with LEGO ROBOTICS sounds like it was fun for you and the students. Projects where students get a chance to work in teams and use math and science to create a robot gives students motivation to learn and understand the math and science needed to help them achieve their goals. Students of different abilities can help each other. What a wonderful way to answer students' eternal question, "When am I ever going to use this (math or science concept)?"
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