iPads, MakerEd and More in Education

Robotics provides students with hands-on opportunities to write code and see immediately the outcome. It provides a context for inquiry and discovery, to become active problem solvers and to engage in their own learning. If students are given the time, space and purpose to tinker with robots and solve open ended problems, it will allow for thought and action to come together, and the opportunity for students to construct knowledge and build theories in individual and collaborative settings. These are critical practices for learning and discovery that have application across all curriculum areas.

Coding or programming is the language used to talk to computers. It really is the 21st Century language being introduced into our schools’ curriculum through the Digital Technologies curriculum. In the junior school coding can be so much fun as robots can be used to program and carry out instructions. This can be so rewarding for young students to engage with code and seeing the impact their code has.

In this post (2 of 3), I thought I’d share some of my favourite robots which are available to suit students in Years 3 & 4.