{"id":618,"date":"2020-09-05T10:12:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T17:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/?p=618"},"modified":"2020-09-05T10:12:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T17:12:42","slug":"root-coding-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2020\/09\/05\/root-coding-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"Root \u2013 Coding Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Originally posted by MET student mlavoie on 21\/05\/2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Root &#8211; the robot that can crawl on the walls<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This robot from Harvard University turns any flat surface into an interactive coding experience. The product leverages commonly found items in classrooms (whiteboards, tablets) and its designers understand the importance of scaffolding in teaching (anything, but in this case, coding), which is reflected in the language and UI of the app. Their pitch video can be found on their Kickstarter page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1509453982\/root-a-robot-to-teach-coding?ref=section-design-tech-projectcollection-tag-category\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>. It&#8217;s the first video under &#8216;About&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/virtual.educ.ubc.ca\/wp\/etec522\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1974\/files\/sites\/1974\/2019\/05\/root-360x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46156\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted by MET student mlavoie on 21\/05\/2019 Root &#8211; the robot that can crawl on the walls This robot from Harvard University turns any&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2020\/09\/05\/root-coding-robot\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Root \u2013 Coding Robot<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pitch-pool","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}