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Tag: robots

Yanghee Kim assists UNESCO efforts to prepare children for future world

January 15, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA

That the world is changing rapidly comes as no surprise to anyone who’s dialed a rotary phone attached to a wall or wearily rose from a comfortable couch to change the channel. But the relentless and breakneck pace at which technology is

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Yanghee Kim, Michael Tscholl spread Morgridge mission, innovation overseas

September 18, 2019 Mark McGowan enewsletter

Yanghee Kim and Michael Tscholl are generating international excitement for their work with NIU’s CREATE Center. During the summer, the researchers from the NIU College of Education’s Morgridge Endowed Chair Office participated in research workshops in Europe. They made important contacts in

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Learn-IT explores future of teaching tech

May 15, 2019 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA

Science fiction fans call May 4 “Star Wars Day” – as in, “May the Fourth Be With You” – but that particular Saturday this year centered on science reality for 120 regional teachers and instructional technology specialists. NIU’s Department of Educational Technology,

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Cyberlearning workshop to host sharing of research, expertise in child/robot collaborative system

January 23, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA

When Yanghee Kim visited the College of Education last August, the new Morgridge Chair eagerly promoted her January 2018 workshop funded by the National Science Foundation. It begins Thursday. The Center for Innovative Research in Cyberlearning (CIRCL) Workshop on Robots, Young Children

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Project VITALL group explores Consumer Electronics Show

January 23, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, SEED

Stacy Kelly wants a robot. The associate professor in the NIU College of Education’s Vision Program came to that realization after she and a trio of graduate students in the Project VITALL master’s degree program spent three days at the annual Consumer

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New Morgridge Chair visits CoE

September 19, 2017 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

As a teacher in South Korea, Yanghee Kim gradually realized that her daily work in the classroom was robbing her of her joy of teaching. Day in and day out, month after month and year after year, she recited the same information

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