As a science or technology teacher or a teacher/instructor in any other discipline, you are dedicated to imparting knowledge and skills to your students. To do this, you plan, prepare, organize, motivate, and cultivate students, plus score exams and otherwise assess the progress of each of your students. As a teacher you also get to know for yourself what works and what doesn’t work.

Robots in the classroom, when used with planning and aforethought, work. An elementary school teacher in New Mexico used a life-sized talking mobile robot in the classroom to help Hispanic students to learn English. The students became the teacher. The robot became the student. And in teaching/programming the robot to speak English words and phrases, the students learned English spelling, grammar, sentence structure and pronunciation. You could barely drag the children away from this educational experience when it became time to do their other work in the classroom.

In a similar way, the SR4 Robot can be used in teaching primary and secondary school students and college and university students (each at their own level) computer programming (Java, Linux, My*SQL and others), electronics, physics, the science of a myriad of sensors, report writing, teamwork, problem-solving, project management, web development, computer networking, wireless technology – and the list goes on.

To further investigate how you can use the SR4 Robot to advantage in your classroom...

• Read the recent assessment of a computer science major at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) who interned with Smart Robots developing various capabilities and projects for the purpose of developing his own personal skills and also devising additional tools and projects for students back at MCLA.
• Review the capabilities and specifications of the various SR4 Robot models and options and consider how the SR4 can be used in your classrooms to enhance the achievement of your own educational objectives for your students.
• Review the list of applications that have already been developed by others working with the SR4 Robot and consider how variations of those applications and/or new projects of your own choosing can be fashioned to provide the educational experience most suited to your curriculum needs.