{"id":10918,"date":"2024-09-17T14:18:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T14:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/?page_id=10918"},"modified":"2024-09-18T18:58:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T18:58:06","slug":"mi-ani","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/beit-midrash\/mi-ani\/","title":{"rendered":"Mi Ani (Who Am I?): An exploration of Jewish identity through robotics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">An important challenge for minority and diaspora populations is how to maintain their sense of identity from generation to generation by encouraging positive affiliation to the community among their young people. This project engages children in an educational experience that promotes exploration of issues of identity by inviting them to create robotic creatures as alter-egos and program their behaviors in response to both Jewish (minority culture) and secular (majority mainstream) events that happen throughout the academic calendar in an American Jewish day school kindergarten classroom. For example, a child programmed her robot to turn on its lights when reaching the month of December to express the lighting of the Hanukah candles. By programming their robots to perform actions, children explored their relationship with Judaism through dynamic behaviors, rather than static symbols or objects.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:31px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mi Ani: An Exploration of Jewish Identity with Robotics\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9O4Mz1iLDWw?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:23px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Related Papers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bers, M.U., Matas, J. &amp; Libman, N. (2013).&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2018\/02\/MiAni.pdf\">Livnot U\u2019Lehibanot, To Build and To Be Built: Making Robots in Kindergarten to Explore Jewish Identity.<\/a>&nbsp;<em>Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education: Studies of Migration, Integration, Equity, and Cultural Survival, 7<\/em>(3), 164-179.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bers, M. U., &amp; Ettinger, A. B. (2012).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2018\/02\/Bers_and_Ettinger-robots-express-identity.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Programming Robots in Kindergarten to Express Identity: An Ethnographic Analysis<\/a>. In B. Barker, G. Nugent, N. Grandgenett, &amp; V. Adamchuk (Eds.),\u00a0<em>Robots in K-12 Education: A New Technology for Learning<\/em>\u00a0(pp. 168-184). doi:10.4018\/978-1-4666-0182-6.ch008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important challenge for minority and diaspora populations is how to maintain their sense of identity from generation to generation by encouraging positive affiliation to the community among their young people. This project engages children in an educational experience that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139409,"featured_media":0,"parent":10908,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10918","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10958,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10918\/revisions\/10958"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}