Lego Education: Day 2 ISTE 2012
LEGO Education provided a hands-on experience center that allowed its visitors to use a WeDo Robotics Construction Set . This box set will cost schools $129.95 each which is cheaper than the popular MINDSTORM box set that costs $1,457.95. LEGO Education boasts that their products can be an essential component to STEM education in any school. The utilization of these box sets require students to problem-solve, critical think, and collaborate to create different robots. These products are the center of student-led, hands-on learning activities that develop science, technology, programming, and mathematics knowledge of every student. LEGO Education robotics consists of the building sets, programming software, and curriculum. Our objective during the hands-on session was to create a goalie robot. The software program provided step-by-step instructions in creating the robot. When the robot was created, we plugged in our robot into our computer through a USB cord. Our next step was to pro...