in 2017 i shared news of a grant that my team and i were awarded, to develop portable, programmable robots for use in mathematics curriculum, specifically to help teachers address what have been termed Problems with Real-World Contexts.
unlike the majority of learning interventions involving robots, our focus when thinking about curriculum was not the coding of the robots, but more in terms of enabling novices to have a more embodied understanding of concepts in mathematics as they interacted with the robots.
it has taken us just under two years, and much trial and error.
through the process, we learned about fabrication, engineering, computational thinking, and principles of physics.
we have termed our curricular approach Accelerobot :-)
today, it was the turn of the teachers on the project to take over, and the very first lesson was conducted earlier this afternoon with Grade Seven students in a school in Singapore.
To God be the glory :-)
