Education Maker Movement Robotics Software 
TeacherCast
DECEMBER 29, 2015
Lightning Lab will make it even easier to use the SPRK robot in the classroom because students can access te instructions and starter code inside of the app. Sphero makes app-enabled, teachable robots. To get started users download the mobile app to program their robot. https://sprk.sphero.com/.
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.
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The CoolCatTeacher
APRIL 21, 2017
A global search in education blog post From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. For our beginning of the year passion projects, some students chose to teach others about our robotic filming Swivl tool and app. Maker Movement. Twenty percent time from Google. Or a genius hour.
The CoolCatTeacher
SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
This past week, I had students modeling processors, hardware, and software using play-dough. Former secretary of education, William Bennett, says, “An elementary school that treats the arts as the province of a few gifted children, or views them only as recreation and entertainment, is a school that needs an infusion of soul.
The Daring Librarian
APRIL 13, 2019
You can take baby steps into the Maker Movement. I'm not 100% sold, even after 7 years of talking about the Maker Movement, that it's something that's here to stay and not just a fad. But what if we spend thousands of dollars on 3D printers, robotics, and other ephemera and it just ends up collecting dust?
Edsurge
AUGUST 7, 2017
She is not alone, as educators around the United States get ready to start the 2017-18 school year, supplies—particularly technology—can cost classrooms hundreds of thousands of dollars. Ellen Goodman Luckily for educators, there are ways to get tech tools into the classrooms that don’t involve panhandling. This is a process.
The CoolCatTeacher
MARCH 13, 2018
I always think of giving my students that sandbox time so that they can play a little bit with the software. Vicki: And I just want to stress — also as a fellow technology educator — that sandboxing is so important. Now, do you use robots? What about robotics? In my class, we use the Sphero robot quite a bit.
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