How Coding and Robotics can be used in School | RobotShop Community

An educational concept receiving a lot of discussions now is STEM. STEM which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, acknowledges these disciplines are cross-curricular in that you can’t teach one of these disciplines without incorporating the others. Coding is becoming so p


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/blog/show/how-coding-and-robotics-can-be-used-in-school

Have your student’s reactions to telling them they will be learning to program / code changed over the last few years? For example have you seen they are more open to it, or it still largely appeals to the same percentage or student type?

Good to know the relevance of robotics and coding in today’s world.

Kindly update me on modules to teach beginners.

Best regards,

@Adedeji Stella Certain robotics kit manufacturers include lesson plans, while others include instructions which are more general. The majority of kits only include assembly instructions without any curriculum etc. For beginners, it’s best (if budget allows) to choose a kit which includes lessons and explanations: https://www.robotshop.com/en/robot-kits.html Normally the programming should use readily available and free to download software which itself should come with lessons.