Teaching with drones: coming to a classroom near you? | Technology and new media - Times Higher Education

Anna McKie, reporter covering teaching, learning and student issues, as well as higher education in Africa and the Middle East reports, Robots and drones should be part of teaching and learning, says report looking into teaching trends in 2019.

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Lecturers should use drones and robots to enhance their teaching as technological advances begin to roll out of the laboratory and into the classroom, according to a report.

“Drone-based learning” and “learning with robots” are identified as two of the main trends in Innovating Pedagogy 2019, Exploring new forms of teaching, learning and assessment, to guide educators and policy makers, the annual report from the Open University outlining what will influence teaching in coming years.

Identifying robots and drones is “not about the fact that they are exciting new technologies but about the possibilities they open up and how they can benefit teachers and learners”, according to Rebecca Ferguson, an editor of the report and a senior lecturer at the OU...

They can also be used in teaching mathematics, by, say, having students predict flight times or land drones in particular places identified through mathematical problem-solving, it says.

“Drones are becoming such a pervasive technology that many students will benefit from early introduction to them before going on to interact with them regularly either at work or in everyday life,” the report says.
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Source: Times Higher Education (THE)