http://blog.roboteducation.org/blog/4 en http://blog.roboteducation.org/node/4 <p>Deepak Kumar and I had a good Skype conversation yesterday (Thursday 13 July) about getting started with the curriculum design for the introductory course. We plan to trial the course this January, so we have a lot of ground to cover in a short time.</p> <p>The really important point that we both agree on is the IPRE courses are about <em>learning Computer Science</em> not <em>learning Robotics</em>. Deepak explicitly said that robotics and cognitive science should take a back seat in these courses. Our goal is to teach computer science -- using robotics and cognitive science as inspiration, but also drawing on computational science and other domains. We're using robots as a <em>strategy</em> for learning and teaching -- a place to draw interesting examples and a way to make the computing concrete and tangible.</p> <p><a href="http://blog.roboteducation.org/node/4">read more</a></p> http://blog.roboteducation.org/node/4#comment Fri, 14 Jul 2006 06:35:38 -0400 Mark Guzdial 4 at http://blog.roboteducation.org