Transcript Service-Learning Component in CSCI 152

Service Learning
By: Markevis G.
Timothy P.
Josh S.
My Child
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1 Visit
Operated the robot dog
Go through a few tutorials
Children are easily bored
Reflection
So far we have only had one visit to the school,
and I have already learned a huge amount.
The first thing that I quickly realized is that the
students are easily distracted. So I figured that
once we all break into our own groups it will be
easier to converse with the students at their
level, to make it less difficult to teach the
students.
My Child
No Visits
I am not sure who my child is
Reflection
 After speaking with Markevis, I quickly came up
with a mental image. After brainstorming some
different ideas, I figured that by relating my
past experiences to the child’s, it will draw the
student to me; which will make the student
listen to me, even if I am teaching him
Computer Science!
First Visit Summary
 Things we need to work on changing:
 Keeping the students interest
 Involving more student activity
 Having more individual time with students
 Things that worked well
 Explaining the robot
 Examples of artificial intelligence
 Relating artificial intelligence to the students’
lives
Lesson Plan
 Discuss computer programming
 Uses of programming
 Examples of programming
 Discuss activities my student enjoys
 Try and learn what student enjoys to possibly include in story
 Find out what level the student is on with computer
programming
 Go through Alice Tutorials
 Practice using Alice throughout tutorial
 Find out what actions the student might want to include in story
 Show student our example
 Discuss how we created out example
 Have student help finish our example
Our Alice Example
 There are two characters: the man and
the bunny.
 The man and the bunny have a short
conversation
 The bunny hops to the house and begins
eating the flowers around the house
 The man scolds the bunny
 The ending will be created by the student
 In our first visit, we spoke about artificial
intelligence and showed the kids the AIBO. The
feature I was supposed to speak about was the
camera features in the AIBO.
 The main problem that we had during our
presentation was that we needed to have more
experience with the robot ourselves. We should
have been more prepared to present the
feature that each of us were designated to
present.
 During the next visit we will be presenting the features
of Alice. We also made our own example in Alice which
we will first present to them. we should then show them
the tutorial then talk about the objects and how they
are made up of several parts and then ask them to
create some methods that do certain things.
 The example that our team created contained a rabbit,
a man, a house and some flowers. The rabbit would
first hop to the man, speak to him then go to the
flowers that were next to the house, eat them and then
the man would get angry at the rabbit. We then
decided that we would ask the kids to complete the
story.
Joshua Sorsby
Child I am working with
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 So far we have had 1 visit and we
showed the students the robot dog.
Reflection
The students responded well to the dog
and were very interested. We need to
improve how much we talk to the
students.
A Personal Reflection with
Tony
The first time I met the children I thought they were all
very nice kids with a lot of potential for wanting to
understand robotics and programming. This made me
feel much like a teacher although I was some what
nervous because I was unfamiliar with their background
and therefore I did not know if they would except me as
their teacher. Luckily I did not have to present my portion
of the AIBO Robot dog to the class first so this allowed
me to gain comfort in standing in front of them and
observe what the other teachers were doing. As it was
my turn to present I felt almost at ease, I saw that the
children were responsive and interested in what I was
saying and they seemed interested as well. This
reinforced my confidence and my presentation went
smoothly from that point on. I hope and plan that one on
one work with me student will be less nerve racking.
A Lesson Plan from
Tony
I plan to cover the following topics with my student the
next time we meet
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Introduction to the Alice programming environment.
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I will run through the tutorial with the student.
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I will then instruct and help the student recreate the tutorial
but on their own.
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Time permitting I will discus story board correlation with
algorithms.
Service Learning
by: Joey Ofori
Child Name:
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Visits: 2
Material: AIBO the first day, Alice the second day
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First Day we talked about AIBO and how it works, reacts, functions,
and different parts of the dog
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Second Day,_____ played with the Alice program, I showed him
through the tutorial, and he got to play with all the features and got
used to the program.
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What Went Wrong/Well
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The first day, we did not know much about AIBO so we couldn’t really
say to much about it
What went well was the cooperation between the kids and students,
they asked questions, we answered them, everything went smoothly
Improvements
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The only improvement is to be prepared
REFLECTION
 What I Learned
 The only thing I really learned was that spreading
knowledge interactively can have an impact on
another’s future
 My Reflection
 I thought this was a real good experience, I used to
be a teacher for little kids younger than these so I
knew how it would be like, but it was really fun, and
we got to meet new people who we could put an
influence on in their lives. We helped play with
programs that could help them be better in the real
world as they find careers. We all learn from each
other and the best way to do it is working together,
and this has proved this.