Photograph: The Korea Herald/Asia News Network
Currently, only 50 out of the total 8,300 kindergartens across the Korea use robots. The Ministry of Education plans to provide 800 robots to kindergartens in underprivileged parts of the country tin 2010. “We plan to provide robots to kindergartens in the rural areas and encourage others to voluntarily use robots. We expect all kindergartens nationwide to use robots by 2013.”- Ministry official.
The BEST part of this program is that the kids and teachers love the idea of robots in the class. Not only the robots aid the teacher in reducing the time spent on checking student attendance, or checking whether students are active or not, but also the students enjoy communicate with the robots through the robots speech and voice technology. The ministry has designated the state-run Korea Institute of Science and Technology as a main organization handling matters related to the establishment of the system.
- Checking student attendance
- Connect to the internet through a computer and register students’ attendance records on a special website, through which parents can find out whether their children have arrived safely
- Read out “Treasure Island,” an adventure novel by Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson, with pictures displayed on 7 inch screen.
- Singing songs
- Having conversations with students
- Recording voices
- Taking photos.
- Responds when someone touches the robots head, hands and feet.
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