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RE: help me spend some money!
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Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:26:10 GMT
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Delurking now.
Karen, I would think that the RIS would be a fascinating introduction into
the relatively new field of artificial life (A-life). Also, the RIS would
make a very good introduction into insect behavior, particularly if
Braitenburg behaviors and/or Brooks' subsumption architecture are coupled
with the lesson to show how relatively simple stimulus/response behaviors
can emerge into more complex behaviors. Just today in the Washington Post
was an article on how an A-Life computer program (described in the most
recent edition of the science periodical Nature) was used to investigate
evolution and speciation in a controlled environment.
I see LOTS of fascinating applications of the RIS in teaching life sciences.
I would research the A-life field a bit more. There is some good material
there that even kids at the 9th and 10th grade level will find interesting
(that is, if you can excite a teenager! I have one myself).
Take care,
Carl
> -----Original Message-----
> From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway@lugnet.com]On Behalf
> Of Karen Gold
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 11:33 PM
> To: lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com
> Subject: Re: help me spend some money!
>
>
> Yes, I've seen e-lab in the catalog, and thought of trying to get
> one set in
> with my other stuff, but the grant was specifically for robotics
> (because I
> wrote it before elab came out....) and I want enough for a whole class.
>
> My curriculum this year will be totally irrelevant. This coming
> year I will be
> teaching biology ( and believe me, this will be the blind leading
> the blind!)
> This is because we are shifting bio from grades 10 to 9 and
> physical science
> from 9 to 10, so this year we have nobody who needs phys. sci.
> Normally I
> teach physical science, which is watered down physics plus watered down
> chemistry. So I'm not sure how to work any of this stuff into
> bio, but I have
> to use it for something this school year, according to the grant,
> so maybe
> we'll just have a Play With Lego week, right before Christmas
> when the kids are
> pretty useless anyway. Karen
>
>
> In lugnet.robotics, Ben Erwin writes:
> > You have to get the latest version of the catalog, or just go to their • website.
> > Also, if you are planning on doing any data-taking with the RCX • (graphing,
> > analyzing graphs, etc.) you want to get the "e-lab" sets that are at the • website,
> > and ROBOLAB 2.
> >
> > What is your curriculum going to be like?
> >
> > -Ben
> >
> >
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| Yes, I've seen e-lab in the catalog, and thought of trying to get one set in with my other stuff, but the grant was specifically for robotics (because I wrote it before elab came out....) and I want enough for a whole class. My curriculum this year (...) (27 years ago, 12-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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