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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Effects of a Less Than Optimal Project
Sixth graders did an engineering challenge this year to create the fastest robot they could that could also go around an obstacle placed anywhere and continue along its path. For this year’s sixth grade students, it was their first year … Continue reading
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Kids Engineer Debuts
This is the new home of all blog entries related to work, which will focus on elementary robotics and technology. You can find all my dog training, nature, spirit, and other materials at http://www.jheffernan.com/
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Creative Play and How It Relates to Robotics Education
At the suggestion of a doctoral student I met at a robotics conference, I did a series of interviews with some of my elementary robotics students. I started a program this year that consists of robotics projects at every grade … Continue reading
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Quotes From Elementary Robotics Students
Here are some key quotes from the robotics interviews I conducted with students this year. I will discuss them later. Enjoy. There are some great quotes that show what this robotics experience is like from the student’s point of view. … Continue reading
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Robotics Interview Data
Here are some preliminary data from the robotics interviews I conducted this year. I recorded responses when watching the video of the interviews and grouped the same or similar responses together. There were lots of unique answers and I some … Continue reading
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Robotics Interview Questions
I settled in on these interview questions after some trial and error. 1) What did you like about project(s) you did this year? How could we change robotics so they could be even better? 2) Make on observation about their … Continue reading
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Initial Impressions of Robotics Interviews
I started interviewing our robotics students yesterday. Sixth graders were the first group to be interviewed. I found it very valuable to take even a short time to talk to students about how they experience robotics. It was interesting to … Continue reading
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