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Abstract

Current technology literacy trends in the United States show declining interest and engagement in technological fields of study. We propose a roadmap by which robotics applications can enliven technology education and capture the interest of new students. We also describe our current efforts to design appropriate technologies and apply them at the middle school, high school, and college levels.

Notes

Associated Center(s) / Consortia: Vision and Autonomous Systems Center and Quality of Life Technology Center

Associated Lab(s) / Group(s): Human-Robot Interaction Group and CREATE: Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment

Associated Project(s): Telepresence Robot Kit

Number of pages: 7

Text Reference

Illah Nourbakhsh, Emily Hamner, Tom Lauwers, Debra Bernstein, and Carl Francis DiSalvo, "A Roadmap for Technology Literacy and a Vehicle for Getting There: Educational Robotics and the TeRK Project," Proceedings of IEEE RO-MAN 2006, September, 2006.

BibTeX Reference

@inproceedings{Nourbakhsh_2006_5853,
   author = "Illah Nourbakhsh and Emily Hamner and Tom Lauwers and Debra Bernstein and Carl Francis DiSalvo",
   title = "A Roadmap for Technology Literacy and a Vehicle for Getting There: Educational Robotics and the TeRK Project",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of IEEE RO-MAN 2006",
   month = "September",
   year = "2006",
}

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