Company Maker Movement Robotics STEM 
Ask a Tech Teacher
JUNE 4, 2015
His knowledge of and interest in both the EdTech world and the importance of a STEM education highlight the importance of inquiry-based education, DIY cultures and technology for enhanced learning as crucial 21st century activities.
The CoolCatTeacher
DECEMBER 5, 2017
We work with robotics, because robotics are tools that allow them to learn coding and to learn abstract logic and thinking while not sitting in front of a computer screen. So robots have motors, they have sensors, they can move around. Each block represents a command for the robot. So same as with a robot.
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eSchool News
NOVEMBER 29, 2017
Considering how robots could replace 38 percent of jobs in the U.S. schools will give way to an increased focus on STEM and coding in schools, reinvigorating the “maker movement.” As the maker movement continues to make its way into the mainstream, a growing number of K-12 schools in the U.S.
The CoolCatTeacher
SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
In this case, we asked teachers to specifically choose math or science because we wanted to do a STEM-to-STEAM arts integration. Anyway, so he was talking about designing these little robots that were about the size of a quarter, and how they were designed. So each grade level, each classroom at each grade level, picked a content area.
The CoolCatTeacher
APRIL 6, 2017
Hummingbird Robotics Kit. Sylvia Libow Martinez is a co-author of Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering the Classroom helping teachers bring the exciting tools and technology of the Maker Movement to classrooms worldwide. Invent to Learn by Sylvia Martinez and Gary Stager. Download the Transcript. Sylvia Martinez.
The CoolCatTeacher
MARCH 13, 2018
Now, do you use robots? What about robotics? In my class, we use the Sphero robot quite a bit. See Top Tips for Teaching with Robots Using Sphero. We do use LEGO Mindstorms with like a couple kids here and there will LOVE to work with LEGO Mindstorms, and I have a robotics club that will use those. Leah: We do.
The CoolCatTeacher
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
Calculating those X and Y coordinates — which really kids of most ages can do — and then realizing that they can make the physical robot go here or there based upon their program. That’s what these robots are. The students will type in the stuff to get the robot to here or to there, and it doesn’t work.
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