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HOW 3D PRINTING IS CHANGING THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER

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Here is a name we all should remember when we talk about people who made this world a better place: Richard Van As.
This resilient South African carpenter turned a personal catastrophe into a victory for the disabled everywhere.
After losing four fingers off his hand to a circular saw, he used a 3D printer and created a capable mechanical hand with a design taken from the online-video of a theater-prop.
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MOTION MATH GAMES HELPS MAKE MATH FUN

If making the subject seem relevant is one of the toughest things for a math teacher to accomplish, then certainly the next most difficult task is making math enjoyable. 
Or is it the other way around? Maybe! And in an earlier post, Eight ways Kindergarten Hold the Key to 21St Century Instruction, we discussed one educator’s view that only kindergarten provided children the eight essential elements (he refers to them as “ways”) needed for educational excellence. 
One of those ways was play and play by its very nature is relevant to children!

 

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DON'T MISS THESE STEM LEARNING ORIENTED EDUCATION GRANTS

There isn’t nearly as much money out there for educational endeavors as there once was, and the noose is getting tighter every day. 
That’s why it is alarming to think that the failure to take advantage of educational grants may leave money on the table that could have been put to a much better use enabling students and teachers in STEM learning. 
In order to avoid this waste, every first-of-the month the online blog eschoolnews.com lists those very grants about to expire in hopes that educators reading the blog will take action.
 
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ROBOTSLAB IS A 2013 BAMMY! AWARDS EDTECH NOMINEE.

RobotsLAB is a 2013 Bammy! Awards EdTech Nominee.

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SPREADSHEETS CAN HELP STUDENTS GET FROM ARITHMETIC TO ALGEBRA

Ever wonder why so few students seem to survive the jump from learning arithmetic to math, or algebra? 
Many of us found ourselves in exactly that situation. 
We wonder what happened to the bright, eager kids that learned so quickly to multiply and divide but stumbled and almost crashed when brought face to face with the simplest of equations. 
Was it simply because they had plateaued intellectually with division and were never meant to fly higher? 
Was it the fault of their teachers? 
Or, as suggested by educator John Barnes, did the fault lie in the tools used by those teachers to try to bridge the gap?
 
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MATH LESSONS IN NEW CURRICULUM

STEM learning just gained a powerful adherent in the UK. According to the UK online daily The Telegraph, the government there recently changed the technology and design curriculum to place more emphasis on science, technology, engineering and math, as it was believed that Britain would need  more than 100,000 graduates in those fields in the next few years to stay competitive.
 
 
The Telegraph claims that “The new curriculum is in sharp contrast to the original draft published by the Coalition in February, which expected children to receive lessons in sewing and knitting, cultivating plants for "decorative displays", bike maintenance and extensive cookery classes.”
Is this claim for real? Seriously? Sewing, knitting, cookery classes and bike maintenance? Could any government in recent years actually have emphasized homemaking courses in view of the global fixation on science?
 
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ROBOTS ON PROJECT RUNWAY

Heidi Klum is not the only model!

Lookout Heidi Klum, a new French supermodel is about appear on the runway at the Barnes and Noble store in Austin, Texas on September 28th, 2013 at 11:00 AM. There will be no less than five of these beguiling French lovelies dressed in the latest fashions by students in the award-winning robotics classes of Anderson High School and Eastside Memorial High School in Austin at this Robot Fashion Show Bookfair.

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TODAY’S SCHOOLS LACK CREATIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING, STUDY SAYS

Is it possible to teach “thinking outside the box?” (Pun intended! Our RobotsLab Box is an invaluable tool for inspiring innovative and creative thinking!)

According to an Adobe Systems survey the answer is yes.

Why isn’t it happening then?

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WHILE DEVICES ENGAGE, TEACHERS MUST INNOVATE

We here at RobotsLAB.com love our electronics devices with all our hearts and we believe in them with zeal, but we recognize that without committed teachers they are nothing but inspired gadgets.

Recently we came across an article by educator David Jakes in The Smart Blog For Education that wonderfully articulates our feelings about our devices and teaching children.
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TEACHING THE LAW OF COSINES WITH ROBOTS

 

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Who doesn’t like seeing Optimus prime fight Megatron? Or one of the robots in “Pacific Rim” use an oil tanker to fight one of the monsters? Well controlling a robot, large or small, involves the use of cosines, among other mathematical equations. However, cosines, like quadratic equations and vectors, are hard to understand using just a math book. Unless your students are really interested in figuring out how tall buildings are, they may not care to learn how cosines factor into things like designing and building a roof. RobotsLAB solves this problem by stripping down the concept of cosines to their core functionality, giving the students something physical (and pretty cool) to look at and makes the concept easier to understand.

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