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How robotic gamification helped my elementary students love STEM

eSchool News

This is especially the case for students in inner-city schools where technology is inevitably scarce due to systemic factors beyond the students’ control. Through the CoderZ Robotics curriculum, kids learn to create, manage, and communicate with cyber robots in a virtual setting by inputting code. Applications.

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Are classroom robots the NextGen of learning?

Neo LMS

Technology has the potential to further transform the way we learn, as is apparent by the advancements in robotics and its use in classrooms. Let’s take a look at how robots are currently being used in classrooms and try answering the question of the hour: Do robots have the potential to teach students in the future?

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KinderLab Robotics Donates Robot Kits to Connect Schools in Pennsylvania and Guatemala

eSchool News

Waltham, MA — KinderLab Robotics today announced that it has donated four KIBO robot kits to La Puerta Abierta , a school in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala. We look forward to giving our elementary school students the opportunity to engage with another culture,” said Beau Blaser, director of technology at Sewickley Academy.

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What Students Learned When They Made Robotics Relevant to Their Lives

Edsurge

A few years ago, toward the beginning of my journey into robotics, I mentored a team for a local competition. We were on our way to building a Tetrix Prime robot from a kit, when the unimaginable happened—our team’s laptops went missing—and with them, all of our code and design work. Ones that aren’t toys?”

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Racing Rats, Independent Cows, and Robots: Is Teaching Career Literacy in Early Grades Effective?

MindSpark

Perhaps work based learning and career training sound too advanced for elementary or middle school students, as if it’s not relevant yet. Farming now includes robotics. The entire system keeps track of the food intake, vitamins, and even some of the medicines the cows might need to feel better and be their healthiest bovine selves.

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Rebuilding a School Community with Maker Learning

Digital Promise

Over the last 12 years, the school system has undergone major upheavals. Now serving Grades Pre-K through six, the administration and faculty of Duquesne Elementary, the district’s sole remaining school, are determined to provide each student with the best educational experience possible. In 2012, students in Grades 7-8 followed suit.

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What's In Your Elementary STEM Lab?

Tech Helpful

The first thing I would suggest to a school system wanting to create a STEM lab is not to try to buy everything in the beginning. This is what we currently have in our lab now that we are 3 years into the program: Wonder Workshop Dash and Dot Robots. These are our "go to" robotics for elementary students. Sphero Robots.

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