{"id":3271,"date":"2011-01-05T09:36:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T17:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=3271"},"modified":"2011-01-05T09:36:15","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T17:36:15","slug":"perils-of-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/05\/perils-of-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Be Afraid to Cry, Teach&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p> Like any new kid in class, RUBI took some time to find a niche. Children swarmed the robot when it first joined the classroom: instant popularity. But by the end of the day, a couple of boys had yanked off its arms.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The engineers went beyond stronger arms (or mounted weapons):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> The RUBI team hit upon a solution one part mechanical and two parts psychological. The engineers programmed RUBI to cry when its arms were pulled. Its young playmates quickly backed off at the sound.<\/p>\n<p>If the sobbing continued, the children usually shifted gears and came forward \u2014 to deliver a hug. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/11\/science\/11robots.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Students, Meet Your New Teacher, Mr. Robot<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like any new kid in class, RUBI took some time to find a niche. Children swarmed the robot when it first joined the classroom: instant popularity. But by the end of the day, a couple of boys had yanked off its arms. The engineers went beyond stronger arms (or mounted weapons): The RUBI team hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[400,1030],"class_list":["post-3271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-education","tag-robots"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-QL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}