Robotics Summer Camp
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Robotics Summer Camp
Start Date: August 22, 2016
End Date:September 2, 2016
Time: 10:00 AM To 4:00 PM
Venue :Dolphin Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria
Event Description
Why should I encourage my Child to learn robotics?
One of the most frequent and widely supported calls for change in contemporary education is for newly envisioned curriculum that integrates math, science, and technology content and skills. Robotics education provides this requirement. Robotics may at first seem exotic, on closer examination it provides a natural fit with good pedagogy that emphasizes meaningful problem based learning, integration and application of knowledge, hands-on learning in cooperative groups, and demonstrable mastery of new learning. It attracts individuals to content domains such as mechanics, electrical circuits, and applied mathematical reasoning that all too often are stumbling blocks for middle school students.
Robotics engages students in complex, strategic problem-solving and higher-order thinking – a set of skills that is a high priority for 21st century education. This kind of problem-solving can be introduced in a gradual, self-motivated way, so beginner students can experience satisfying achievements right away and can quickly move on to new challenges in a continuous progression toward greater levels of sophistication.
Perhaps the most compelling reason for a robotics education is that it introduces students to knowledge, concepts, and skills that are needed for understanding the intelligent information-based technology of the future: technology that is highly interactive, multi-modal, adaptive and autonomous. Technology is no longer the private domain of a self-selected group of “nerds,” and sophisticated technological systems are no longer reserved for academic research labs or the military or government.
We all are likely to have computers sitting on our desks that far exceed the capacity of the most sophisticated systems in the world just a generation ago. It is hardly controversial to predict that technology systems (not computers) will be more and more ubiquitous – not just in school and work settings, but in home and recreational lives; for people from all walks of life. We can also predict that technology will be increasingly complex and intelligent. Both the capacity of hardware and the capabilities of software expand at a fierce pace. Artificial intelligence is no longer the stuff of science fiction, but everyday reality.
The outward appearance and ways a user interacts with new technology systems are more and more variable. Even Nigeria today, information technology does not just look like a desktop computer that you sit in front of and type on. To be productive in employment and higher education, today’s students will have to be able to learn new technology systems on their own, on demand, and embedded in them in different kinds of situations. Surface-level familiarity with current “book theory” applications will not be sufficient for their future needs. Students need a deeper foundation of conceptual understanding of information technology systems and productive working strategies for self-learning and trouble-shooting.
Most Primary and early Secondary school age students today are enthusiastic users and consumers of Games and TV type information technology. They hardly remember a time when there was no Internet, e-mail, cell phones, electronic toys, or digital media. Indeed, while the adults in their lives may struggle to adapt to the influx of increasingly sophisticated information technologies, students take it for granted. Our objective in teaching and developing a curriculum that emphasizes active problem-solving with intelligent technology is to put students in the role of creating and designing with information technology – not just using and consuming it.
Our next Session runs from August 22 to September 2, 2016. I would be happy to have your children join in the session.
Our Robotics curriculum is a motivated by a particular concern for addressing the “digital divide” (the World vs Nigerian education), with the use of LEGO Education products and our Robotics Resources. Our curriculum has been designed and evaluated to make sure that it provides a friendly, motivating introduction to intelligent technology with which ALL interested school students can engaged and be successful. Certificates will be issued to all student that complete the session.
Organizer of Robotics Summer Camp
Adeolu is an Architect. He hold a Bachelors (B.E.S) and Masters (B.ARCH) degree in Architecture from the University of Lagos Akoka, Lagos Nigeria.
His interests include Energy management in Buildings, Sustainable Housing Development, Sustainable energy technology applications, environmental management and Science education.
Although the Training is Free. We charge a token of N25,000.00 per Child each week for the Use of the Robotics Kits.
Start Date: August 22, 2016
End Date:September 2, 2016
Time: 10:00 AM To 4:00 PM
Venue :Dolphin Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria
Event Description
Why should I encourage my Child to learn robotics?
One of the most frequent and widely supported calls for change in contemporary education is for newly envisioned curriculum that integrates math, science, and technology content and skills. Robotics education provides this requirement. Robotics may at first seem exotic, on closer examination it provides a natural fit with good pedagogy that emphasizes meaningful problem based learning, integration and application of knowledge, hands-on learning in cooperative groups, and demonstrable mastery of new learning. It attracts individuals to content domains such as mechanics, electrical circuits, and applied mathematical reasoning that all too often are stumbling blocks for middle school students.
Robotics engages students in complex, strategic problem-solving and higher-order thinking – a set of skills that is a high priority for 21st century education. This kind of problem-solving can be introduced in a gradual, self-motivated way, so beginner students can experience satisfying achievements right away and can quickly move on to new challenges in a continuous progression toward greater levels of sophistication.
Perhaps the most compelling reason for a robotics education is that it introduces students to knowledge, concepts, and skills that are needed for understanding the intelligent information-based technology of the future: technology that is highly interactive, multi-modal, adaptive and autonomous. Technology is no longer the private domain of a self-selected group of “nerds,” and sophisticated technological systems are no longer reserved for academic research labs or the military or government.
We all are likely to have computers sitting on our desks that far exceed the capacity of the most sophisticated systems in the world just a generation ago. It is hardly controversial to predict that technology systems (not computers) will be more and more ubiquitous – not just in school and work settings, but in home and recreational lives; for people from all walks of life. We can also predict that technology will be increasingly complex and intelligent. Both the capacity of hardware and the capabilities of software expand at a fierce pace. Artificial intelligence is no longer the stuff of science fiction, but everyday reality.
The outward appearance and ways a user interacts with new technology systems are more and more variable. Even Nigeria today, information technology does not just look like a desktop computer that you sit in front of and type on. To be productive in employment and higher education, today’s students will have to be able to learn new technology systems on their own, on demand, and embedded in them in different kinds of situations. Surface-level familiarity with current “book theory” applications will not be sufficient for their future needs. Students need a deeper foundation of conceptual understanding of information technology systems and productive working strategies for self-learning and trouble-shooting.
Most Primary and early Secondary school age students today are enthusiastic users and consumers of Games and TV type information technology. They hardly remember a time when there was no Internet, e-mail, cell phones, electronic toys, or digital media. Indeed, while the adults in their lives may struggle to adapt to the influx of increasingly sophisticated information technologies, students take it for granted. Our objective in teaching and developing a curriculum that emphasizes active problem-solving with intelligent technology is to put students in the role of creating and designing with information technology – not just using and consuming it.
Our next Session runs from August 22 to September 2, 2016. I would be happy to have your children join in the session.
Our Robotics curriculum is a motivated by a particular concern for addressing the “digital divide” (the World vs Nigerian education), with the use of LEGO Education products and our Robotics Resources. Our curriculum has been designed and evaluated to make sure that it provides a friendly, motivating introduction to intelligent technology with which ALL interested school students can engaged and be successful. Certificates will be issued to all student that complete the session.
Organizer of Robotics Summer Camp
Adeolu is an Architect. He hold a Bachelors (B.E.S) and Masters (B.ARCH) degree in Architecture from the University of Lagos Akoka, Lagos Nigeria.
His interests include Energy management in Buildings, Sustainable Housing Development, Sustainable energy technology applications, environmental management and Science education.
Although the Training is Free. We charge a token of N25,000.00 per Child each week for the Use of the Robotics Kits.
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