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Getting started with STEM and EV3

7 Feb 201711 May 2017
  • EV3
  • Getting Started
  • Lesson Plan
  • Pedagogy
 3Posted by Kasia Nogalska
“I hear and I forget. I see and remember. I do and I understand.” This well-known quote describes the most effective method of teaching students. If you let children play football or basketball, they discover […]

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The importance of recording your work

31 Aug 201631 Aug 2016
  • Getting Started
  • Pedagogy
 4Posted by Asha
LEGO offers an amazing opportunity for students to build both easily and quickly. You don’t have to get specialized pieces and tools to make a robot or an engineering model. Students love being able to […]

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Scratch and LEGO WeDo

4 Apr 201616 Dec 2016
  • Getting Started
  • WeDo
 4Posted by Mike
You may have heard of the computer programming language Scratch. It’s a child-friendly system where you code by dragging around colored blocks and snapping them together – and for that reason some schools call it ‘Computer […]

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Assessing student work in robotics and engineering

10 Dec 20151 Apr 2016
  • Cross-platform
  • Getting Started
  • Pedagogy
 3Posted by Rob Torok
In this video, Professor Ethan Danahy from Tufts University provides insights to his philosophies of assessment within his first-year intro-to-engineering course on robotics (using LEGO MINDSTORMS and LabVIEW Graphical Programming) and the techniques he uses […]

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Robot programming for absolute beginners

22 Apr 20151 Jul 2016
  • News and Events
  • Getting Started
 2Posted by Rob Torok
Rowan University has recently announced a LEGO EV3 version of the popular “Robot Programming for Absolute Beginners” MOOC (following in the footsteps of their previous MOOC that covered LEGO NXT hardware and software). “Got a […]

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Robotics, LEGO, first day… What do I do?!

6 Nov 20141 Jun 2017
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  • Getting Started
  • Lesson Plan
 6Posted by Ian Chow-Miller
This lesson is a great way to begin any class that involves LEGO Technic bricks. Young students starting with WeDo or Simple Machines, middle-school students beginning their first robotics class or even upper level grades […]

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Learning Dimensions: Another way to assess

6 Nov 20141 Apr 2016
  • Getting Started
  • Pedagogy
 0Posted by Jonathan-Dietz
Mike Petrich and Karen Wilkinson, from the Tinkering Studio at San Francisco’s legendary Exploratorium museum, have created an alternative Learning Dimensions Framework for the assessment of student engagement in project-based learning. Students are assessed for […]

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Assessment tools for group projects

14 Oct 201413 Mar 2016
  • Getting Started
  • Pedagogy
 0Posted by Dot
In our push to get more students involved in STEM subjects, we incorporated LEGO robotics into our high school Physics and our AP Physics 1 curricula. This meant that I had to develop a consistent […]

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Why I like educational robots

18 Nov 20131 Apr 2016
  • Concepts
  • Pedagogy
  • Getting Started
 0Posted by Craig
With all the available STEM options, we often get asked Why Robotics?  So here are some quick thoughts to kickstart your thirty second elevator speech for robotics program support. See what you think. I like educational robots because they […]

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EV3 rechargeable battery issue

16 Sep 20132 Sep 2014
  • News and Events
  • EV3
  • Getting Started
  • Troubleshooting
 0Posted by Barbara Bratzel
Some of the new EV3 rechargeable batteries have a circuit error and do not work properly. After you recharge one of these defective batteries, install it in the EV3, and turn on the EV3, you […]

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