Bowling with robots: Using tech to foster a positive learning environment (Verizon)
Erin Schoen Marsh
Jul 28, 20221 min read
Ask for a tour through the Verizon Innovative Learning Lab at Hammocks Middle School in Miami, FL, and you’ll glimpse student-created virtual reality (VR) worlds and a lab full of next-gen tech. In the Verizon Lab, students knock down bowling pins using robots, which they learn to operate through coding and apps. Lois Seaman, a Lab Mentor, used a lesson plan on robotics, one of many lessons freely available to educators on Verizon Innovative Learning HQ, to structure the day’s activities.
If it all sounds pretty futuristic, it is. “There’s nothing that isn’t amazing about this Verizon Innovative Learning Lab,” says Seaman.
As her students will tell you, Seaman often says that technology is great—especially when it works. That sentiment is a reminder that things don’t always go as planned, whether in life or at school, and it’s the type of life lesson that Seaman illustrates through the use of technology.