{"id":534,"date":"2019-12-27T10:28:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T10:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.dorsetforyou.gov.uk\/digital-first\/?p=534"},"modified":"2019-12-27T10:28:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T10:28:04","slug":"robots-to-help-children-attend-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/2019\/12\/27\/robots-to-help-children-attend-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots to help children attend school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In December Dorset Council took delivery of an AV1 Avatar, we have leased him from the manufacturer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noisolation.com\/global\/\">No Isolation<\/a> for a period of three months.\u00a0 During this time, we are planning to use him to promote the opportunity he offers for children who are physically unable to attend school to do so virtually via the AV1 Avatar.\u00a0 This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/education-47240463\/the-robot-helping-a-seven-year-old-boy-go-to-school\">video<\/a> explains perfectly how he works.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-535\" src=\"https:\/\/news.dorsetforyou.gov.uk\/digital-first\/files\/2019\/12\/AV1.2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"AV1 Robot\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/files\/2019\/12\/AV1.2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/files\/2019\/12\/AV1.2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/files\/2019\/12\/AV1.2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/files\/2019\/12\/AV1.2.jpg 1243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We have been aware of AV1 for some time, but we\u2019d not really been able to gain any interest by merely talking about him.\u00a0 Within a week of us having an AV1 on-site lots of enthusiasm has been generated, one of the biggest lessons we\u2019ve learnt so far is that seeing is believing with AV1.<\/p>\n<p>Our hope was to sign up a few schools to help us trial the devices.\u00a0 We\u2019ve now signed up two schools and have just placed the order for their devices.\u00a0 It\u2019s an exciting (and slightly scary) time, we have the potential to really make a difference for the children who will use the AV1 so we want to get it right.<\/p>\n<p>All those involved in the trial are committed to working in a positive, collaborative way and will share our experiences and learning as we progress.<\/p>\n<p>Wish us all luck and pop back over the summer to read an update on how things have progressed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emma Powell &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Digital Business Partner<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December Dorset Council took delivery of an AV1 Avatar, we have leased him from the manufacturer No Isolation for a period of three months.\u00a0 During this time, we are planning to use him to promote the opportunity he offers for children who are physically unable to attend school to do so virtually via the&hellip; <span class=\"kuorinka-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/2019\/12\/27\/robots-to-help-children-attend-school\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robots to help children attend school<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}