[LINK] Ten Dollar Telepresence Robot for the COVID-Safer Classroom

[Roger Clarke]

On 2/8/20 9:31 am, Tom Worthington wrote:
> On 1/8/20 12:01 pm, Peter Batchelor wrote:
> 
>> ... upmarket version of Tom’s device: essentially an iPad on a Segway ...
> 
> Yes, the Canberra Innovation Network (CBRIN) had one of these
> tablets-on-wheels to greet people in the foyer and escort them to
> reception. It was a bit unnerving when the lift doors opened to see this
> thing looking at you and it did not last long.
> 
> Also I just discovered CBRIN hosted the start-up "MissingSchool" with
> three wheel telepresence robots for sick kids to attend school
> virtually. With older teachers now at risk of COVID-19, perhaps the
> students should be in the classroom and the teacher remote:
> https://www.missingschool.org.au/page/80/telepresence

That's a nice application of one of de Bono's test-cases.

(If crawling child is mucking up granny's knitting-balls, *don't* put
the baby back in the cage.  Put Granny in the cage, and leave the child
with the rest of the room to investigate.   Mmmm, how quaintly dated
that is:  cages, or whatever we called them, have gone out of fashion).

Unfortunately, that mode unlikely to fulfil a crucial element of the
teaching profession's offering - child-minding.


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