RSS Workshop on
Research in
Robots for Education
June 30, 2007
Atlanta, GA
Organizers
Doug Blank
Maria Hybinette
Keith O’Hara
Daniela Rus
Schedule
9:10 - 10:30
Session
10:30 - 10:55
10:55 - 12:15
12:15 - 1:15
1:15 - 2:35
2:35 - 3:00
Participation
Coffee Break
Platforms Session
Lunch Break
Pedagogy Session
Closing Discussion
Format
• 3 Sessions
– Six 10 minute presentations
– 20 minute discussion
• Full papers available on website
• Presentations available after workshop
(hopefully!)
http://www.roboteducation.org/rss-2007/
Participation Session
Attraction
and
Retention
Pedagogy Session
Curriculum
and
Evaluation
Platforms Session
Hardware
and
Software
Crosscutting Themes
• Age
– K-5, 6-8, 9-12, Undergrad, Graduate, “General”
• Educational Environment
– Class, Club, Contest, Gallery, …
• Educational Discipline
– Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace Engineering,
Computer Science, Mathematics, Geology,
Philosophy, Art …
Participation Session
• Susan Crowe
the
• Michael Dumont
to
• Fred Martin
Curriculum,
for Student
Projects
• Fred Stillwell
the
• Jerry Weinberg
• Joel Weingarten
Experience with Robots for Education at
High School Level
Games or Robots? Restoring Excitement
Introductory Computing
The iCode System: An On-Line
Programming, and Design Portal
Microcontroller and Robotics
Experience with Robots for Education at
Middle School Level
The Impact of Robot Projects on Girls
Attitudes Toward Science and Engineering
Robotics as the Delivery Vehicle: A
contexualized, social, self paced,
engineering education for life-long learners
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Platforms Session
• Monica Anderson
• Kristie Brown
• Marco Morales
• Jesus Savage
Teach
Programming and
• Eric Schweikardt
• Stewart Tansley
Player/Stage: A Unifying Paradigm to
Improve Robotics Education Delivery
Lego Robot Education Platforms
Vizmo++: A Visualization, Authoring, and
Educational Tool for Motion Planning
The Use of the ViRbot System to
Principles of Software
Mobile Robots
roBlocks: Understanding Emergent
Complexity from the Bottom Up
Microsoft Robotics Studio as a Robot
Education Platform
Pedagogy Session
• Doug Blank
Personal Robots for CS-1
• Michael Gennert A Robotics Engineering Major
• Aaron Dollar
The Robotics OpenCourseWare
Project
• Wen-Jung Hsin Assembly Programming using
Simple Mindstorms RCX Robots
• Fred Martin
Artbotics: Challenges and
Opportunities for Multi-Disciplinary,
Community-Based Learning in
Computer Science, Robotics, and
Art
Discussion
• TBD