Robotics and Programming for lower elementary school

As many of you know, I am a huge proponent for getting kids started with programming and robotics at an early age.  It has all of the requirements for great education - Manipulatives, Play, Higher Reasoning Skills, Collaboration, Student Ownership of Learning and so on...

So when I saw this on a web list that I belong to, I became so very excited!!

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If you have students in elementary grades, then you need to check this out!  Very, very, very, very cool!!!

http://www.kinderlabrobotics.com/

Here is the link to their kick-starter campaign: Kibo kickstarter

As always, please add your comments to the blog page!

Regards to all!

Yossie

P.S. Shout out to John Umekubo from the St Mathew's Parish School for originally posting this on INTEla.   Follow John on Twitter: @jumekubo

Yossie Frankel
Director - Consortium for Information and Academic Technologies
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