{"id":5293,"date":"2017-08-04T11:06:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T16:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=5293"},"modified":"2017-08-04T11:10:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T16:10:18","slug":"what-yales-socially-assistive-robots-and-studioweb-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2017\/what-yales-socially-assistive-robots-and-studioweb-have-in-common\/","title":{"rendered":"What Yale&#8217;s Socially Assistive Robots and StudioWeb have in Common"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Scazlab-dragonbot-demo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Scazlab-dragonbot-demo.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Scazlab-dragonbot-demo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Scazlab-dragonbot-demo-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rdmag.com\/article\/2017\/07\/robotic-teachers-can-adjust-style-based-student-success?et_cid=6035261&amp;et_rid=1006539091&amp;location=top&amp;et_cid=6035261&amp;et_rid=1006539091&amp;linkid=content\">reading an article<\/a>\u00a0on Yale University&#8217;s research with socially assistive robotics, that help to teach kids. The main points I got out of the article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Robots learn and adapt to individual student need.<\/li>\n<li>Students are motivated when the learning process is turned into a game. A little competition is very motivating for many students. Otherwise known as gamification.<\/li>\n<li>When students work one-on-one with a robot, they are not afraid to answer questions, since all the students are busy working with their own robots.<\/li>\n<li>The robots look like fun toys.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is interesting to me, because the StudioWeb app and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studioweb.com\/courses\/\">curriculum<\/a>, has been developed with an awareness of the above lessons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>StudioWeb&#8217;s experience reflects Yale&#8217;s:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>StudioWeb&#8217;s software shares similar traits (if you will) with Yale&#8217;s socially assistive robots. StudioWeb is a gamified app where students learn to code, as they unlock levels, earn badges and score points. Students work on their own computers, at their own pace, and so they don&#8217;t have to worry about social pressures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.studioweb.com\/2017\/08\/02\/what-yales-socially-assistive-robotics-and-studioweb-have-in-common\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Scazlab-dragonbot-demo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Scazlab-dragonbot-demo.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Scazlab-dragonbot-demo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Scazlab-dragonbot-demo-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rdmag.com\/article\/2017\/07\/robotic-teachers-can-adjust-style-based-student-success?et_cid=6035261&amp;et_rid=1006539091&amp;location=top&amp;et_cid=6035261&amp;et_rid=1006539091&amp;linkid=content\">reading an article<\/a>\u00a0on Yale University&#8217;s research with socially assistive robotics, that help to teach kids. The main points I got out of the article:<\/p>\n<p> \t&#8211; Robots learn and adapt to individual student need.<br \/>\n \t&#8211; Students are motivated when the learning process is turned into a game. Otherwise known as gamification.<br \/>\n \t&#8211; When students work one-on-one with a robot, they are not afraid to answer questions.<br \/>\n        &#8211; The robots look like fun toys.<\/p>\n<p>This is interesting to me, because the StudioWeb app and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studioweb.com\/courses\/\">curriculum<\/a>, has been developed with an awareness of the above lessons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5293"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5305,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions\/5305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}