On 2/8/20 9:31 am, Tom Worthington wrote: > On 1/8/20 12:01 pm, Peter Batchelor wrote: > >> ... upmarket version of Tom’s device: essentially an iPad on a Segway ... > > Yes, the Canberra Innovation Network (CBRIN) had one of these > tablets-on-wheels to greet people in the foyer and escort them to > reception. It was a bit unnerving when the lift doors opened to see this > thing looking at you and it did not last long. > > Also I just discovered CBRIN hosted the start-up "MissingSchool" with > three wheel telepresence robots for sick kids to attend school > virtually. With older teachers now at risk of COVID-19, perhaps the > students should be in the classroom and the teacher remote: > https://www.missingschool.org.au/page/80/telepresence
That's a nice application of one of de Bono's test-cases. (If crawling child is mucking up granny's knitting-balls, *don't* put the baby back in the cage. Put Granny in the cage, and leave the child with the rest of the room to investigate. Mmmm, how quaintly dated that is: cages, or whatever we called them, have gone out of fashion). Unfortunately, that mode unlikely to fulfil a crucial element of the teaching profession's offering - child-minding. -- Roger Clarke mailto:[email protected] T: +61 2 6288 6916 http://www.xamax.com.au http://www.rogerclarke.com Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
