Educational Robots

Alan Paul Haskvitz is a teacher and author. He has been inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame and was named as a “Hero in Education” by Reader’s Digest. He currently teaches at Suzanne Middle School in Walnut, California. His career as an educator has spanned 30 years, and he is notable for introducing “quality circles” into the education field and for being one of the first to actively promote “service learning” as part of a social science curriculum. He has been selected six times as one of the best teachers in the United States. He is also considered a distinguish alumni by is alma mater Cal Poly Pomona.

One way Haskvitz raises his own student test scores is by making abstract ideas tangible to 13- and 14-year-olds.

“As a teacher, you get paid the same amount of money if you give kids handouts and textbooks,” Haskvitz said. “But I try to have kids solve problems that are real. I don’t want them to memorize George Washington’s name and dates, but to relate what he did and how he overcame problems to become successful in life.”

Here is a free downloadable PDF which explores robot’s as teachers and below this paragragh is where I got this link from and is the place I mentioned above where you can explore these principles in more depth. There is an abudance of information there and I hope to revisit this post to explore more the notions of Robot companionship and how others have already began contructing Robots to hopefully find out the troubles they have had during the process. I’m sure like myself this will ease any fears you might have about having or indeed inventing a Educational Trash Robot.

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/robot.html