English sundew (Drosera anglica): WUaS Home Robotics & Playful Learning - and great courses for this? - ""How to engage students through playful learning," presented by LEGO® Education and SmartBrief"

https://www.msgilbertrocks.com/contact Could I possibly please see your detailed CV? 

https://twitter.com/shady_side/status/1327637603961757697?s=20

Thanks for your informative "Lunch Bytes – A Demo: Modeling Parametric Furniture with the Epilog Laser Cutter" just now. And nice to e-meet you. 

I'm curious about the now 3 Lego Robotics' Kits, with the free Scratch programming language, and both actually, and virtually (potentially in MineCraft), and how Shady Side could develop classes in Robotics even, and online, for SSA students (possibly during Covid-19 and after as well). 

I write in developing MIT OCW-centric World University and School, and in seeking to offer even online robotics' courses (emerging from https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/) at the college and high school levels, beginning with the 3 Lego Robotics' kits, with Scratch programming (out of the MIT Media Lab), mostly virtually, but with students working doing home robotics with physical Lego kits. If possible, such courses for 1st year undergraduate students toward undergraduate Engineering and other degrees, this January, will find form on the edX platform (founded by Harvard & MIT), with which World Univ & Sch is newly partnering. And in the process of WUaS developing such courses - in conjunction with you, Jesse and SSA? - WUaS would seek to build into an edX course platform a learner-centric approach, eg see Harvard GSE Prof. Karen Brennan's recent paper - 

https://twitter.com/karen_brennan/status/1328490675533471745?s=20 and 

How might we best communicate about this further, Jesse and All? Could SSA students begin to program their Lego robots to travel in MineCraft (as it develops and MIT has an educational version of Minecraft) from the virtual SSA main campus to the SSA middle school campus, and to do all kinds of interesting robotics things, like autonomous driving, and exploring the boundaries of what autonomy is and means? And could SSA become a remarkable leader in developing and teaching high school Lego robotics and related programming? (Might SSA and WUaS even explore collaborating offering online Robotics' courses - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics - at the high school level?).

One of my further main interests is how to develop Lego Robotics in a Google Ecosystem which we can all build together, eg: 

And here's the idea for building courses, first with Lego WeDo 2.0 with SCRATCH programming ... 

 

How to build #LegoRobotics in #WeDo2 with #Scratch3? I enjoyed #LegoWeDo2 tutorials & block programming language, but am also seeking some edX intro #WUaSLegoRobotics courses
@WorldUnivAndSch
 Found only http://legoengineering.com/scratch-ing-the-lego-wedo/ -https://cubeforteachers.com/folders/qXHFn6qcDMd0CqMi1eRjXTnxnEljy8kXIDf0gdiRFbTDbwOFPoMzrrJPFqBBlKnp & https://robocamp.eu/en/lessons/citycamp-wedo2-scratch/ ~

How to build #LegoRobotics in #WeDo2 with #Scratch3? I enjoyed #LegoWeDo2 tutorials & block programming language, but am also seeking some edX intro #WUaSLegoRobotics courses @WorldUnivAndSch Found only https://t.co/jY2FYnPpH7 -https://t.co/q6YY98vfw4& https://t.co/iuJAK99Y6v ~

— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) November 17, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1328783841276792833?s=20

Also, President Griffith and All, if you know of any SSA graduates who are interested in free-to-students' licensing and accrediting CC-4 MIT OCW-centric onlineBachelor degrees beginning in January 2021, please let me know. Please stay tuned as our WUAS web site develops further in the upcoming weeks - worlduniversityandschool.org. Thank you again.

Looking forward to communicating further about this, and perhaps as a way for the great SSA to develop in remarkable new ways. :)

Regards, 

Scott

PS

WUaS is now an authorized carrier of the 3 Lego robotics' kits - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - but the WUaS Educational Services' Store is not yet earning any money from these Robotics' kits.

PPS

And please check out the Robotics' label in my daily blog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/robotics - with much brainstorming, and many ideas, about teaching and learning WUaS Home Robotics ... and eventually with machine learning and AI as well. 

PPPS

Eventually our new 29 majors will emerge from these wiki subject pages, and with courses and free university degrees online in all ~200 countries and in their official / main and in many languages - 

STEM education - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics

PPPPS

Interesting to learn of 

Inkscape

Fusion 3D

Rhino & Grasshopper
similar to Fusion 3D with tweaks

as well as
Overwatch - https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/
League of Legends - https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/

There's also a First Lego League for Lego Robotics and STEM - https://www.firstlegoleague.org - I haven't explored very much yet, and am not sure how it might be developing online during Covid-19 either.

Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod  
World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch  
Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod  
WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress  

“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook  
OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand

Hi, Scott,

Sorry about that. Here’s my email address. 

In my work with Tufts University I have seen them use a variety of LEGO solutions and they primarily focused on the Mindstorms EV3 kits within their engineering program. I am not sure if that will shift a bit more now that the SPIKE Prime kits are available. I do think WeDo 2.0 is a nice place for those with little to no experience. 

Online, I agree it is challenging. I think the Scratch apps for LEGO integration are awesome. Depending on your goals, the web-based simulator with Root is great too. Their coding platform offers three levels (level 2 is closest to Scratch), but most importantly there is a simulator to run the code right in Chrome, so not having a physical robot is less of a barrier. There are also options like CoderZ that has simulations for LEGO as well. 

I can certainly send along an updated CV if you would like to have one on hand. I will get it updated ASAP and email it over. 

So glad you were able to be part of the webinar. It was nice to share ideas and learn from the other panelists as well. Thanks for reaching out and connecting.

Have a nice weekend,

Jen

Brainstorming-wise, a few further questions: 

Playful learning with Lego robotics in edX courses? 

Peter Norvig, head of Google's AI, and his Lego Institute - https://norvig.com/LI2/ - and re the Google ecosystem for a realistic virtual earth for Lego robotics ?

I enjoyed the Lego WeDo 2.0 tutorial and block programming language some time ago, and wonder how to build on this? for 15 week-long college and high school Lego robotics' courses for credit, which would also be playful. How to explore writing playful learning - which you touched on yesterday - as well as STEM playful learning, first in an Engineering undergraduate major at WUaS?