Remote Teaching

Through inspiration and collaboration*, the BirdBrain Team developed a number of ways to engage students with creative robotics via a remote or hybrid learning environment. Consider the following adaptations and free tools for your classroom.

 

Which describes you?

Your students do not have a robot at home, but you want to get them involved!

A.  Make a robot for your classroom that students access remotely

Your students have access to robots at home, and you need tips!

B.  Manage learning remotely with MakeCode

C.  Read about teachers’ experiences of teaching the Hummingbird Kit remotely

A.  Make Your Own Remote Robot

Interested in setting up a robot that students can access from any location with internet access?

Dive in to our tutorials!

Make Your Own Hummingbird Remote Robot

Learn How

Make Your Own Finch

Remote Robot

Learn How

B.  Manage Learning Remotely with MakeCode

MakeCode offers a great set of tools for remote teaching that apply well to a 1:1 scenario where all of your students have a robot at home, or to a remote robots scenario where you would like students to program a robot at your location.

Learn more

 

 

 

C. Remote Teaching Case Studies

Virtual Robotics Camps
with RoboFun

RoboFun takes their traditional camps online with the Hummingbird Robotics Kit!

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Undergrads & 5th Graders
Co-learn Coding & Robotics

Old Dominion University teams up pre-service teachers, engineering students, & 5th graders to co-learn robotics virtually!

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Middle School Girls Explore
Creative Robotics Virtually

Gwynedd Mercy pivoted quickly to create virtual robotics for middle schoolers!

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* Inspirations & Thanks

Remote Robots was inspired by the Telepresence Robot Kit (TeRK), a project at CMU’s CREATE Lab in 2006-2008. There isn’t much about it on the internet, but here’s a press release and a 2007 paper.

It would not be possible to run these robots without NetsBlox, a project at Vanderbilt university’s school of engineering. We’d like to thank Akos Ledeczi, the principal developer of NetsBlox, for explaining the system and sharing examples.