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Re: Future Mindstorm Releases?
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 1 Sep 2004 17:41:00 GMT
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Steve Baker <SJBAKER1@AIRMAILspamcake.NET>
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Harold Jarvie wrote:
> I'n my kids schools they don't want to know about lego because of the cost.
> They say picaxe is more suitable cause its cheaper and scaleable. The kids make
> structural components themselves in other areas of the technology curriculum
> like woodwork. Not as flash ot tech looking but they do the same learning for
> way less money.... or so the argument goes
It's hard to imagine how such teaching methods would get kid to learn computer
programming - or about sensors or about robot navigation - or even simple stuff
like gear ratios.
Mindstorms is revolutionary because it can teach those things - and in a way that
gets kids excited about it.
Doing wood and metalworking in a shop class teaches a lot about how to use
tools - but the focus is heavily biassed towards the process of making things
rather than on the design of those things.
In ten years from now - when those kids enter the job market - which child will
get a better career - the one with the computer/robotics skills or the one
who knows when to use a tenon saw and when to use a crosscut saw?
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