As technology is very important in all aspects of entrepreneourship students did many activities in Robotic lessons. They learn while playing with different technology: BBC microbits, mBots, STEMI robot, LEGO and Arduino and learn how to use it while developing creativity and innovation. Since "the world belongs to the young”, they have to know how technology works and how they can use it to programme their world. In Robotics our students (5th and 6th graders) learn about the mBot and the BBC:microbit. Older pupils demonstrate how to connect parts of a mBot robot and how to control it.
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Students like the most the fact that it can be controlled by a tablet or a cell phone. Novelties of the mBlock app, a very kids friendly app, are the possibility of controlling an mBot by voice (GO FORWARD, GO BACKWARD, TURN LEFT, TURN RIGHT), the possibility of drawing a path along which it will move as well as the possibility of programming sounds on piano keys. Such an approach encourages students to learn programming, helps them understand algorithms and develops problem solving skills. Students also learn about the BBC:microbit microcontroller which can be programmed to display different animations, lights and sounds. The most interesting fact is that this tiny microcontroller has senzors for temperature, light and movement. Using these senzors students learned how to programme a microbit to register the room temperature, the intensity of light and movement and counted the number of steps taken in the classroom.
In this way they learned and had fun at the same time. These microcontrollers and kids friendly applications play an important role in developing inovativity, creativity and helping students understand how technology works. Our 6th grader Tin Fike (11 years old) programmed the traditional game “Rock, scissors, paper” on a BBC:microbit.
Loredana Zima Krnelić, prof.