Welcome to the Educational Robotics and Beyond wiki

Using the Site

The purpose of this wiki is to provide a common area where participants of the Spring 2010 AAAI symposium on Educational Robotics and Beyond can provide notes, resources, and presentations.  

This site has been seeded with five pages to allow people to contribute resources and notes:  Educational Evaluation, Curriculum Design, Electronic Tangibles, General Resources, and Presentations.  You can find these pages in the navigator on the right side of the page.  The first four pages have a common structure consisting of a resources section and a notes section.  Some information has already been added - feel free to add more.  The Presentations page has links to all of the slides for the talks presented; due to AAAI copyright rules we can't republish the full papers here.  

Description

For over twenty years, robots, electronics, microcontrollers, and other physically-instantiated devices have been used as educational tools in both formal (in-school) and informal (out-of-school) settings. Particularly at the high school and undergraduate levels, these tools have been used to enhance computer science education and illustrate artificial intelligence concepts. In the last several years, a number of programs have been developed which use physically instantiated devices to promote learning in a wider variety of topics, including science, engineering, math, as well as storytelling, sculpture, and other art forms. Such programs, while not always directly teaching AI concepts, do promote technological literacy in participants and may motivate some to further study in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). In order to further expand programs based on electronic, tangible components into these and other areas, it is important to demonstrate the impacts that these education programs have on participants, in both the short- and the long-term.

More information available at:  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~AAAI10-ETPL/index.html