Educational Origami

This week has been rather quiet on the blogging front. The week has be a whirlwind of robots, programming, television and testing.

This week the students and I have been involved in the Robocup Junior competition. The event was sponsored by Toshiba and I must give them a huge amount of credit for an excellent job. The other prime mover from My perspective was Harold of Kings College fame.

From a learning perspective this had all the hall marks of higher order thinking. The students created, analysed and evaluated, they designed, tested, refine, programmed, researched, collaborated. They also failed, succeeded, got frustrated, overcame and persevered.

Robot cup and events like First teach our students hugely valuable lessons, one that are hard if not impossible to replicate in the classroom. For me this was a brilliant end to a term spend focusing on and developing robots.

The students ran the pit where the robots were, teachers and adults were not allowed in. They displayed one of the key features of the First Competition - Gracious professionalism, as they interacted with their peers and with the judges. The behavior of the students was impeccable.

A brilliant learning experience. Well done, Milde, Ian and Harold and all the others I have missed

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