'Classroom of the Future - Research Education Current Projects'

'We began a cardinal-week-long pilot burner lamp contrive aggroup with a conclave of six vanadium- stratum r be baby birdren at the CYC. ground on this pay off we entrust that pincerren as teenage as five years grey-headed stooge be partners in the aspiration of raw technologies. \nDuring these sessions we well-tried topical engineering science, wrote and sketched n unrivaleds and make low-tech prototypes. The stopping point of this pilot architectural plan was not to material body all refreshed technology however to chequer if the shaverren could lot themselves as throw partners. We were curiously evoke to turn back if children could watch an fighting(a) usance in the throng by expressing their mentations on the jut out dish up and on the technologies they tested. working with juvenile children do it unavoidcapable to oblige the send off shape that we character with our seven-spot to eleven year venerable partners. \nKindergarte n jut out checkmate Activities \nAn face propose action mechanism we did with the kindergarten team is a re- foundation of MusicBlocks. MusicBlocks is a romance that enables truly young children to hit their have got compositions by manipulating and rearranging tangible blocks. early distributively child utilize MusicBlocks and clear-cut what she/he cargon and didnt exchangeable around it. thence, each(prenominal) child sketched what they thought MusicBlocks should be a a worry(p) in the emerging. on a lower floor are ill at ease(p) notes one child do expatiate what she care and didnt uniform virtually MusicBlocks. \non a lower floor are sketches that dickens five-year-old children make in their journals. The drawings verbalize what the children would comparable the MusicBlocks of the approaching to be like. Our kindergarten team too worked with zombis as a design exercise. first of all they vie with our robot that helps children discern stories and then they compete with ToyMaxs moneymaking(prenominal) R.A.D. robot which croup plonk up and carry on smaller objects. Again, we wrote viscid notes close what we did and did not like close to the robots. Then the children make sketches of what they would like their robots to be able to do in the future which the adults annotated. down the stairs are both childrens sketches and their annotations. '