TY - GEN
T1 - Work in progress
T2 - 42nd Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2012
AU - Karp, Tanja
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In this paper we describe approaches to better assist teachers in rural areas to participate in an annual LEGO robotics competition offered at Texas Tech University. While local schools have a student mentor visiting the robotics teams on a weekly basis, schools that are more than 20 miles away from Texas Tech University do not benefit from this service. Although there is a significant amount of literature available on LEGO robotics, teachers and students seem to prefer personal interaction. We propose daylong fieldtrips and webinars to partly overcome distance and still provide direct interaction.
AB - In this paper we describe approaches to better assist teachers in rural areas to participate in an annual LEGO robotics competition offered at Texas Tech University. While local schools have a student mentor visiting the robotics teams on a weekly basis, schools that are more than 20 miles away from Texas Tech University do not benefit from this service. Although there is a significant amount of literature available on LEGO robotics, teachers and students seem to prefer personal interaction. We propose daylong fieldtrips and webinars to partly overcome distance and still provide direct interaction.
KW - K-12 Engineering Education
KW - LEGO Robotics
KW - teacher professional development
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84874729798&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/FIE.2012.6462376
DO - 10.1109/FIE.2012.6462376
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84874729798
SN - 9781467313513
T3 - Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
BT - 2012 Frontiers in Education Conference
Y2 - 3 October 2012 through 6 October 2012
ER -