FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — A robot may soon help children learn from home when they can't go to class.
Students who can't make it to class this year because of injury or illness might be able to monitor their classes in real-time.
Rosie the robot, affectionately named by Cristy Smith and her staff in the Fulton County Exceptional Students Department, could be a game changer, Smith says.
“You can go forward, backward, raise up, you can go down,” Smith said. “The goal is how do we make sure education is as accessible as it can be for all kids, regardless of the circumstance."
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YouTube video shows the robot in action, allowing students at home to remotely check into their classrooms,
The district is currently testing out a unit.
“There is an app for an iPhone or an iPad or a web-based application, that as long as you have internet, you can access,” Smith said.
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they are having them positioned in different parts of the county, and will then start to look through and decide what students these would be appropriate for that would enable them to participate to a degree beyond hospital or homebound services.
“We’ve had children who have had to go through chemotherapy and radiation,” Smith said. “That’s a very unfortunate situation. Sometimes keeping their life as normal as it can possibly be, such as attending school, is a really helpful thing as they work through.”
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