Friday, November 20, 2020

English sundew (Drosera anglica): WUaS Home Robotics & Playful Learning - and great courses for this? - " "How to engage students through playful learning," presented by LEGO® Education and SmartBrief" * * Courses in each of 3 physical Lego Robotics' kits for #WUaSHomeRobotics' combining both actual & virtual - #ActualVirtual #PhysicalVirtual w #Scratch3 in #GoogleTranslate' ~100 langs : #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego & #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics & re https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/?


WUaS Home Robotics & Playful Learning - and great courses for this, too? 


"How to engage students through playful learning," presented by LEGO® Education and SmartBrief 


Hi Jen Gilbert, and Leanna,

Greetings!

I couldn't find your email online, Jen, so am emailing Leanna, hoping that you might know each other. 
Could you please forward this to Jen, if you can, Leanna? Do you happen to know Leanna Prater ?

Thanks for your helpful presentation today, Jen. Unfortunately the audio and internet signal weren't working very well at all. While I just connected with you on LinkedIn, I'd be interested in learning more of your thoughts about play-based learning with Lego, and especially with Lego robotics - and brainstorming-wise, even in an edX course. 

Thank you. I'm including a related email I sent to people at the high school I went to in Pittsburgh, PA, with some thoughts about Lego robotics and play, 

How might we best communicate further about some of this? 

Regards, Scott

Please check out the Robotics' label in my daily blog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/robotics - with much brainstorming, and many ideas, about teaching and learning WUaS Home Robotics ... and eventually with machine learning and AI as well. 




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Shady Side Academy (Pittsburgh, PA) high school - 

Lunch Bytes – A Demo: Modeling Parametric Furniture with the Epilog Laser Cutter

Thursday, Nov. 19
Noon ET



Hi Jesse, Lisa, Jamie, and President Griffith, 

Thanks for your informative "Lunch Bytes – A Demo: Modeling Parametric Furniture with the Epilog Laser Cutter" just now. And nice to e-meet you. 

I'm curious about the now 3 Lego Robotics' Kits, with the free Scratch programming language, and both actually, and virtually (potentially in MineCraft), and how Shady Side could develop classes in Robotics even, and online, for SSA students (possibly during Covid-19 and after as well). 

I write in developing MIT OCW-centric World University and School, and in seeking to offer even online robotics' courses (emerging from https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/) at the college and high school levels, beginning with the 3 Lego Robotics' kits, with Scratch programming (out of the MIT Media Lab), mostly virtually, but with students working doing home robotics with physical Lego kits. If possible, such courses for 1st year undergraduate students toward undergraduate Engineering and other degrees, this January, will find form on the edX platform (founded by Harvard & MIT), with which World Univ & Sch is newly partnering. And in the process of WUaS developing such courses - in conjunction with you, Jesse and SSA? - WUaS would seek to build into an edX course platform a learner-centric approach, eg see Harvard GSE Prof. Karen Brennan's recent paper - 


Educators identified six actions as important to negotiating their pedagogical aspirations and the realities of online learning at scale: (1) giving up control, (2) distributing facilitation, (3) being live, (4) amplifying, (5) modeling, and (6) being explicit.


https://twitter.com/karen_brennan/status/1328490682009444352?s=20. (Currently I found only 2 robotics courses when I searched in edX on Lego Robotics).

How might we best communicate about this further, Jesse and All? Could SSA students begin to program their Lego robots to travel in MineCraft (as it develops and MIT has an educational version of Minecraft) from the virtual SSA main campus to the SSA middle school campus, and to do all kinds of interesting robotics things, like autonomous driving, and exploring the boundaries of what autonomy is and means? And could SSA become a remarkable leader in developing and teaching high school Lego robotics and related programming? (Might SSA and WUaS even explore collaborating offering online Robotics' courses - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics - at the high school level?).

One of my further main interests is how to develop Lego Robotics in a Google Ecosystem which we can all build together, eg: 

Eureka! HUGE further step toward a #RealisticVirtualEarth with #TimeSlider in #GoogleStreetView Ecosystem - & with WIKI crowdsourcing of data w #ML! For #EWVWG of
#RealisticVirtualHarbin w
#RealisticVirtualEarthForLego &
#RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics ~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/10/nature-create-realisticvirtualearthforg.html ~

https://twitter.com/GoogleAI/status/1316789966207287301?s=20


https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1325114675575488512?s=20

And here's the idea for building courses, first with Lego WeDo 2.0 with SCRATCH programming ... 
 
How to build #LegoRobotics in #WeDo2 with #Scratch3? I enjoyed #LegoWeDo2 tutorials & block programming language, but am also seeking some edX intro #WUaSLegoRobotics courses
@WorldUnivAndSch
 Found only http://legoengineering.com/scratch-ing-the-lego-wedo/ -https://cubeforteachers.com/folders/qXHFn6qcDMd0CqMi1eRjXTnxnEljy8kXIDf0gdiRFbTDbwOFPoMzrrJPFqBBlKnp & https://robocamp.eu/en/lessons/citycamp-wedo2-scratch/ ~


https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1328783841276792833?s=20


Also, President Griffith and All, if you know of any SSA graduates who are interested in free-to-students' licensing and accrediting CC-4 MIT OCW-centric onlineBachelor degrees beginning in January 2021, please let me know. Please stay tuned as our WUAS web site develops further in the upcoming weeks - worlduniversityandschool.org. Thank you again.

Looking forward to communicating further about this, and perhaps as a way for the great SSA to develop in remarkable new ways. :)

Regards, 
Scott

PS
WUaS is now an authorized carrier of the 3 Lego robotics' kits - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - but the WUaS Educational Services' Store is not yet earning any money from these Robotics' kits.

PPS
And please check out the Robotics' label in my daily blog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/robotics - with much brainstorming, and many ideas, about teaching and learning WUaS Home Robotics ... and eventually with machine learning and AI as well. 

PPPS
Eventually our new 29 majors will emerge from these wiki subject pages, and with courses and free university degrees online in all ~200 countries and in their official / main and in many languages - 


PPPPS
Interesting to learn of 

Inkscape

Fusion 3D

Rhino & Grasshopper
similar to Fusion 3D with tweaks

as well as
Overwatch - https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/
League of Legends - https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/

There's also a First Lego League for Lego Robotics and STEM - https://www.firstlegoleague.org - I haven't explored very much yet, and am not sure how it might be developing online during Covid-19 either.


Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod  
World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch  
Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod  
WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress  
“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook  
OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand




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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 



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Hi Jen, 


Am trying this email address as an adaptation from your msgilbertrocks@msgilbertrocks.com as an adaptation from your msgilbertrocks.com LinkedIn profile. 

Might I please see your CV per your https://www.msgilbertrocks.com/contact ? Thank you. Where might you head with creating a Lego Robotics' course for 1st year undergraduates in an Engineering major on the edX platform at WUaS, brainstorming-wise, potentially even with doing so with Lego WeDo 2.0 with Scratch Programming, since most of these hypothetical 18 year olds online could be newbies to WUaS Home Lego Robotics? Thank you.  

Cheers, Scott



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Hi, Scott,

Sorry about that. Here’s my email address. 

In my work with Tufts University I have seen them use a variety of LEGO solutions and they primarily focused on the Mindstorms EV3 kits within their engineering program. I am not sure if that will shift a bit more now that the SPIKE Prime kits are available. I do think WeDo 2.0 is a nice place for those with little to no experience. 

Online, I agree it is challenging. I think the Scratch apps for LEGO integration are awesome. Depending on your goals, the web-based simulator with Root is great too. Their coding platform offers three levels (level 2 is closest to Scratch), but most importantly there is a simulator to run the code right in Chrome, so not having a physical robot is less of a barrier. There are also options like CoderZ that has simulations for LEGO as well. 

I can certainly send along an updated CV if you would like to have one on hand. I will get it updated ASAP and email it over. 

So glad you were able to be part of the webinar. It was nice to share ideas and learn from the other panelists as well. Thanks for reaching out and connecting.

Have a nice weekend,

Jen

On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 5:03 PM Squarespace <form-submission@squarespace.info> wrote:

Sent via form submission from msgilbertrocks

Name: Scott MacLeod

Email Address: sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Subject: Follow up re Lego robotics' course possibilities' brainstorming

Message: Hi Jen,
Greetings!
Got a bounce-back just now from this too to you and Leanna:
Am trying this email address as an adaptation from your msgilbertrocks@msgilbertrocks.com as an adaptation from your msgilbertrocks.com LinkedIn profile.

Might I please see your CV per your https://www.msgilbertrocks.com/contact ? Thank you. Where might you head with creating a Lego Robotics' course for 1st year undergraduates in an Engineering major on the edX platform at WUaS, brainstorming-wise, potentially even with doing so with Lego WeDo 2.0 with Scratch Programming, since most of these hypothetical 18 year olds online could be newbies to WUaS Home Lego Robotics? Thank you.

Cheers, Scott

--

Jen Gilbert, LBS, MS

Educator and STEM Specialist

www.msgilbertrocks.com


Twitter: @msgilbertrocks

Instagram: @msgilbertrocks



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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Thu, Nov 19, 5:19 PM (21 hours ago)
to Jen
Hi Jen, 

Thanks too for your email.

Root looks awesome, if this is Root - https://www.virtualroboticstoolkit.com 

And CoderZ too - https://www.robot-advance.com/EN/actualite-lego-ev3-compatible-with-coderz-107.htm - and I've tried out their one month free, but didn't see Scratch like in the image here.

MIT's educational version of MineCraft with a developing Google rǝ for Lego robotics even and in Google Street View with TIME SLIDER + (re Brick Street View) would be an awesome thing to do ...

Google rǝ

https://twitter.com/GoogleAI/status/1316789966207287301?s=20
( ... and re :) - 

World Univ & Sch is seeking for departments of education in all ~200 countries to reimburse WUaS for CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric World Univ & Sch free-to-student degrees, and potentially for each of the 3 Lego Robotics' kits in the poorer countries, if students matriculate for 4 years' degrees or similar - and for 'WUaS Home Robotics' - https://twitter.com/hashtag/WUaSHomeRobotics?src=hashtag_click - combining both actual and virtual. See, too - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForLego?src=hashtag_click - and - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics?src=hashtag_click.

Have you found this helpful - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/ - or even explored making a course in something like edX (either at college or high school level?)

 Looking forward to checking out your CV. 

Any Gilberts from Colorado in the past for you? My mother's mother's maiden name, my Granny Brown, was 'Gilbert,' from Boulder, CO, then Cincinnati, OH :)

Cheers, and thanks, 
Scott
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-- 
- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 


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Jen Gilbert

7:26 AM (6 hours ago)
to me
Hi, Scott,

I will take a look at what you shared. This is the Root robot I mentioned:

Thanks,
Jen

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Hi, Jen,

Very cool! 


Brainstorming-wise, a few further questions: 

Playful learning with Lego robotics in edX courses? 

Peter Norvig, head of Google's AI, and his Lego Institute - https://norvig.com/LI2/ - and re the Google ecosystem for a realistic virtual earth for Lego robotics ?

I enjoyed the Lego WeDo 2.0 tutorial and block programming language some time ago, and wonder how to build on this? for 15 week-long college and high school Lego robotics' courses for credit, which would also be playful. How to explore writing playful learning - which you touched on yesterday - as well as STEM playful learning, first in an Engineering undergraduate major at WUaS?

Thank you!

Cheers, 
Scott



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Courses in each of 3 physical Lego Robotics' kits for #WUaSHomeRobotics' combining both actual & virtual - #ActualVirtual #PhysicalVirtual w #Scratch3 in #GoogleTranslate' ~100 langs : #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego & #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics & re https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/?

https://twitter.com/msgilbertrocks/status/1328476141263466496?s=20

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1329597205506736128?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1329598568324235264?s=20

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1329599168382259200?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1329599816649719811?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1329600991679770624?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1329601592631324672?s=20







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