SWWRocBot
A Unique Learning Environment
SWWRocBot is a site laying out the Challenges, Solutions and Results that are the foundations of a unique learning environment. At this time it is a proposal for the Rochester (NY) City School District. It's focus is on normal, everyday urban kids with the aim of increasing their rate of matriculation from grade to grade and graduation with honors.
This learning environment is based on the work of Nick Clark, author of "The Geometry of Learning and the Architecture of Knowledge". It will be a multi-disciplinary, interactive and immersive experience (See animation above) with positive outcomes for the following stake holders:
- Students
- Parents
- Teachers
- Administrators
- Mentors
- The School (School Without Walls)
- The City School System
- Community Business Partners
- Community Organization Partners
- Individuals whose talents are required for the success of the program
SWWRocBot will use the organizing structure, a small business, that R. Buckminster Fuller adopted for nearly all the classes he taught. SWWRocBot will annually design, develop, program, build, raise funds for and promote a new functioning 'ShowBot'. SWWRocBot will take the robot to schools, malls and other venues demonstrating the wide variety of skills that these students are learning in this comprehensive environment.
You are invited to explore the proposal. You are encouraged to comment on and/or critique any/or all portions of the proposal, offer ideas, join the School Without Walls SWWRocBot team and be a collaborator building this learning environment.
Nick Clark
Information Science & Learning Technologies
Robotics Coach
School Without Walls
SWWRocBot@Gmail.Com
3 comments:
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SWWRocBot
Instructional Design Team
I like the concept of teaching the individual subjects as if they are related to each other with physical connections and form a whole structure...
The Geodesic structure seems a complex model to many and it should as the interelation of subject material is complex. The subjects cannot and should not be separated or they dont make perfect sense, and lose meaning without their connections to the other subjects. math loses its frame of reference when taken out of technology and science, and art and geology and taught as a dissassociated abstraction. as the strange shape of the flat pattern in the animation demonstrates.
Only when the sujects are folded together, can the spherical symmetry of the whole be observed. Just as a student needs all areas of education, art, music, self esteem, physical education, socialization, role models, ethics, empathy, math, science, physics, geometry, electronics, materials science, systems analysis, and Technology literacy. (high as well as low tech) in order to be a well rounded individual which the city needs more of desperately if we are to experience a rebirth from the decay and shift of social structure in some neighborhoods due to poverty and the loss of belief in the importance, promise and power of education.
-Jay
Jay, I know this is wildly delayed but with that said, the original theory (The Geometry of Learning and the Architecture of Knowledge, c. 2001, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri) is multi-dimensional, in time and space. Follows my topic The Cosmology of Learning.
Thank you so much for your time and thought and I would be more than happy to continue the discussion.
Nick Clark
Timewarp3k@Gmail.Com
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