Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom by Martinez Sylvia Libow & Stager Gary S

Author:Martinez, Sylvia Libow & Stager, Gary S. [Martinez, Sylvia Libow]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780989151115
Publisher: Constructing Modern Knowledge Press
Published: 2013-05-10T04:00:00+00:00

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Mechanical building sets have offered add-on motors, lights, switches, and buzzers for decades, but in the mid-1980s, LEGO produced the first robotics construction kits that allowed kids to build “smart” machines that could interact with the users and their environment. Outputs (motors, lights, and buzzers) were met by inputs (sensors for temperature, light, rotation, touch, and later sound) for the first time. By programming your machines, you teach them to respond to external stimuli and events. Let’s think of robotics as the act of giving behaviors to machines.

LEGO has dominated the educational robotics market since 1987, and hobbyists have embraced the materials for the elegance and snap-together simplicity, even if they go on to modify their kits. The ability to snap together an invention, test it, and make modifications quickly and easily without tools makes LEGO an excellent vehicle for learning through robotics construction. The familiarity and trusted brand of LEGO made robotics accessible by educators who might otherwise have shied away from engineering. Like LEGO itself, LEGO robotics has a wonderful playful quality.

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