新鲜科技：未来教室什么样
“So where am I? I’m inside the classroom of the future.”

This is a biology lesson where Microsoft’s Surface computer allows students to see inside the human body.

OptiMusic uses light and sound to teach children about cause and effect. And this is Eddie, the breakdancing humanoid robot math teacher. Creator Jim Wyatt says this little guy represents an important addition to the educational arena.

“Essentially, it's a really complicated 3D geometry problem. So math you can look at the different angles and then in physics you can look at things like centre of gravity and momentum. So we can use Eddie as a demonstrator that's fun and exciting and use him to engage kids in quite complex subject areas.”

And that's really what this event is all about. Staged by RM, the leading supplier of information and communication technologies to UK classrooms, 'Learning Spaces for the Future' is offering teachers and students a chance to see what kind of technologies might be coming their way.

“It’s really fun and interactive and good for schools.”
“Yeah, I think the same. It’s very futuristic.”

“So what exactly are you guys learning here?”
“Well, the great gray screen blocks all our bodies. You can only see our heads in the camera.”

RM’s spokeswomen Philippa Lee says all these technologies are meant to achieve the same goal—help enhance learning.

“There’re things that technology can do that you can’t do with books or with the teacher explaining something.”

And as for those who say that new-fangled teaching tools threaten to distract children from the fundamentals, Lee disagrees.

The really successful classroom is when teachers are making a choice between technology is important in this lesson and it’s not important in this lesson.

So then, it’s all about balance—something, it turns out, Eddie the robot has the ability to demonstrate with panache.

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