LEGO for Visually Impaired Learners: Building Robots Without Limits

Purpose & objective

Educational or infrastructure challenge/situation:
In the world of education with reference to learning there are many problems or issues that can affect the academic development of students and this can create that children do not want to go to school or even that parents no longer want to send children to school. the school. For example: the lack of material, the deficiency of the teacher or that the classes are not useful for the children, since they do not cover their needs according to their abilities. One issue is the lack of effort on the part of the educators and that is why they create problems in the students, this can cause the children to have bad grades and it can also reach the point where the child no longer wants to go to school because the system education is not useful for learning.
The lack of resources is another important factor since it generates social marginalization and makes the child sad and listless, in other words, low self-esteem comes to generate the famous "Bullying" which is denounced to his parents so that they have Take care and protect your children from this harassment. Another type of problem is that there are cases like; children with low vision come to schools so when children play, sometimes they do not include children with this type of disease in their games or activities organized by them, therefore, this fact causes sadness and they no longer want to integrate blind children.

Technology intervention
3D printers will be used to place the name on the pieces so that students with visual impairments can recognize and identify them through the Braille language.
Braille typewriters will also be used to prepare the manual completely in Braille, as a reference for students. Some Macintosh computers allow you to program a keyboard, or even the touch screen of your iPad, like a braille typewriter, so that the typical QWERTY keyboard transforms and offers the same functions as a braille keyboard.

Lesson plans or instructional activities/strategies employed
The activities to be carried out in the project are: Implementation of the name of the pieces in each one of them through the 3D printer.
After the pieces are ready, visually impaired students will have a manual to build a LEGO-like robot. This manual will be typed on braille typewriters. The purpose of this manual is to serve as a reference so that you can learn the use and characteristics of the parts.

Evidence of success.
When starting this project, we worked together with the foundation "Vemos con el Corazon I.A.P." where we learned the main causes of blindness and eye diseases. (Evidence in the shared folder) and the best thing that has happened to us when carrying out this project is the feeling of joy that causes children with visual impairment to be able to build something that they did not imagine they could do. By identifying the parts and following the instructions in the manual they were able to build a basic robot, but the short-term idea is to make manuals with more complex robots.

Outline

Presentation of the project:

Min. 1 to 3 Explanation of the project

Min. 4 to 8. Explanation of how the pieces and manual were made (Physical and video evidence)

Min 9 -12 Assembly practice to feel the experience in braille.

Min. 13-15 Conclusions

Supporting research

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