From Digital Journal:
Technology is making a bigger and bigger impact in the classroom and this summer, RoboThespian, a robotic actor, got a summer job as a guest science teacher for a group of grade 5 and 6 students in Israel.
Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, describes RoboThespian as a robot that gestures, has facial expressions and multiple vocal effects. It was purchased by Israel's National Museum of Science, Technology and Space from British company Engineered Arts Limited back in 2010 for a Robot Zoo exhibition.
Then this month the robot was put to work, giving a live lesson to kids on the science of levers. Prof. Igor Verner of the Technion's Department of Education in Technology and Science tells the Institute's magazine Focus, "We've just witnessed one of the first ever formal science lessons given by a robot."
(h/t NoCamels)
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Posted By Elder of Ziyon to Elder of Ziyon at 8/31/2012 11:40:00 AM
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