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Robots dance their way into the classroom

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It was only a matter of time before robots made their way into the classroom – and now they have arrived in style. St Clement Danes School in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, is one of the first schools in the country to use revolutionary new robots in classes.

The new computing curriculum has shifted the focus towards programming, coding and computer science and with that in mind Carl Taylor, the computing subject leader at St Clement Danes, has introduced three Meccanoid G15 KS robots into his lessons.

“Using the robots’ learned intelligent movement (LIM) system and a mobile app, we can show how they can be programmed in order to carry out a repetitive action,” said Mr Taylor. “It also develops the idea of computational thinking and algorithms. For example, there is a need to produce a set of accurate instructions in the correct order or they won’t produce the result you expect.”

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