| Using Roamer |
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| Roamer is a constructivist tool: a robot designed to help students think. Based on the principles of Logo developed by MIT’s Seymour Papert. By programming Roamer students engage a wide range of creative, cross curricular activities. The snippets on these three page give you a flavour. If you take the time to explore the rest of the site you will be startled at how such a simple idea can do so many excellent things. |
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| Roamer in Kansas |
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| Students in Kansas dressed Roamer for a square dance. Programming the robots to dance together was great fun and involved lots of basic math skills |
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| Roamer in Shanghai |
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| Teachers use Roamer with a number track to provide students with visual and kinaesthetic manipulation of negative numbers. |
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| Roamer in Scotland |
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| You can play music with Roamer. One student played Mozart and another played Beethoven’s 9th. A group of students in Edinburgh programmed the robot to play the Highland Fling while another Roamer “danced” around some swords. |
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