With the rapid growth of the educational technology industry, schools need to be exposing students more and more to technologies like artificial intelligence and robots. For our school's Innovation Lab, I would like to include robots for students to program.
There are a number of reasons using robots can benefit your students, such as, increase engagement and rigor, demonstrate abstract concepts, connect to real-word issues, and increase collaboration. I would also like to invest in items to create a virtual reality lab with VR headsets and 3D printers. Students would be able to take virtual field trips to museums and visit cultural sites around the world or even go back in time to a historical setting such as the land of the dinosaurs. Students would also be set up to design objects that they then print on the 3D printers. We would like to utilize the 3D printers to create prototypes for the PBL project they might be working on collaboratively. This would allow our students to perform similarly to the people who work in the field as they rule out problems and finalize projects.
These emerging technologies would encourage students to develop a passion for science, technology, engineering, the arts, and math (STEAM) by preparing students to be successful innovators in a 21st century workforce and engaging them with well-designed learning spaces featuring robots, 3D virtual reality, and 3D printing. It is Catalina’s goal that we prepare our students for their future, whatever that might be. We believe that the skills they learn through a STEAM experience will support them in any direction they take beyond our K-8 campus.
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With the rapid growth of the educational technology industry, schools need to be exposing students more and more to technologies like artificial intelligence and robots. For our school's Innovation Lab, I would like to include robots for students to program.
There are a number of reasons using robots can benefit your students, such as, increase engagement and rigor, demonstrate abstract concepts, connect to real-word issues, and increase collaboration. I would also like to invest in items to create a virtual reality lab with VR headsets and 3D printers. Students would be able to take virtual field trips to museums and visit cultural sites around the world or even go back in time to a historical setting such as the land of the dinosaurs. Students would also be set up to design objects that they then print on the 3D printers. We would like to utilize the 3D printers to create prototypes for the PBL project they might be working on collaboratively. This would allow our students to perform similarly to the people who work in the field as they rule out problems and finalize projects.
These emerging technologies would encourage students to develop a passion for science, technology, engineering, the arts, and math (STEAM) by preparing students to be successful innovators in a 21st century workforce and engaging them with well-designed learning spaces featuring robots, 3D virtual reality, and 3D printing. It is Catalina’s goal that we prepare our students for their future, whatever that might be. We believe that the skills they learn through a STEAM experience will support them in any direction they take beyond our K-8 campus.
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