Yesterday at the uni (and probably today and tomorrow) there was a robotics presentation in the main thoroughfare of the Huxley building. Apart from a 3D printer silently making something, there were also a couple of stalls with products. One was for OZOBOTS - tiny golf ball sized robots that can be used to teach primary students programming and robotics!
Wow, when I was in primary school (in the 60s) we used to sing Seekers songs, not learn programming!!! It was a different time, one with NO calculators let along smart phones, so we learnt to to do long division and multiplication instead. I had a longish discussion with the presenter. It's likely that only about 1% of the primary students will followup on this stuff, to develop programming and/or robotic skills, but 1% is not bad. And for the rest, such an introduction will probably make them less disturbed by either.
Cool stuff.
#programming #robotics
https://ozobot.com/
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