Technology has changed so vastly all across the world. Some things are brand new and others become obsolete. People learn from the many new technological advances that grace our presence day to day. I found one that was so fascinating. It’s a robot that teaches children. South Korea has robots in the classroom!!! Yujin Robotics (the name of the company producing them) has been demonstrating “Robosem” (a telepresence enabled bot) that can teach basic lessons or allow a remote human instructor to teleconference into a class. Yujin’s bot focus on teaching English to kindergarten students. They chose English to be one of the dominating subjects for the robots to teach because its cuts down on South Korea having to import many foreign tutors.
Robosem pairs a large LCD display with teleconference accessories (camera, mic, speakers, etc) All of these accessories are put inside a approachable frame which children are attracted to. The robot comes fully loaded with lesson plans or it can be operated remotely as a telerobot for live instruction via its monitor.
South Korea is really ahead of the United States when it comes the technological advances. Their goal is to ultimately be able to integrate robotics into their education system. They are expecting many others countries to adopt the technologies that are developed for the educational goals. South Korea plans to place a robot in every kindergarten class in 2013.
I found this article really interesting and I want to know your thoughts about this. Do you think robots would be a good asset to our educational system in the U. S.? If so what would be good subjects for the robots to teach. Do you think students could learn from the robots? Just write you thoughts I’m interested to know!
Heres to link to the article if you wanted to look more in depth about the Robots.
http://singularityhub.com/2011/02/26/another-robot-enters-korean-classrooms-as-automated-teaching-advances/
