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

[Antony Barry]

>
> (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.
>

I had one but I didn't call it a cage but a "playpen" and it took me a
while to remember. The children who played in it are now all in their 50s
and I've got grandchildren in their 20s.... Time goes by..

On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 10:07 AM Roger Clarke <Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au>
wrote:

> 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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