Robotics in the classroom The Bee-Bots
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So today I want to introduce you to some little friends called the Bee-Bots. This pedagogical resource of robotics is an educational contribution that has as its main objective the development of programming and computational thinking in children from early childhood, with it is shown how to solve some simple problems through the application of the principles of programming language.
Its incursion into the classroom has become fashionable in countries like Spain and Chile where through the ministries of education the government has implemented a series of educational programs so that these bee-bots are already in almost all classrooms of early education. This has generated a real stir and controversy, as you know in terms of technological advances there are always those who are in favor and those who are against, especially from the side of teachers who must prepare and learn programming language to explain and demonstrate its use to children.
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Many of the experiences report that children learn with great ease to use the programming language with bee-bots and that it does not generate any difficulty even surpassing teachers in its use. These friendly robots can store up to 40 orders and advance 200 steps in each instruction or order, they move on two mats with spaces in the form of squares where the teacher places cards with the orders that the bee-bots must search and recognize.
As for their design, they are compact and robust, have buttons on the top where they are programmed using a simple programming language, can move from right to left, forward and backward, perform 90° turns, and have integrated sounds that can be muted depending on the activity, also their eyes turn on lights that indicate the orders received and the fulfillment of the same.
These bee-bots have opened up a new world of educational possibilities from learning the programming language that children must learn and that generates valuable cognitive benefits such as abstraction, breakdown and problem solving through programming logic and step-by-step leading to solutions, creative thinking and parallel thinking. As well as fine motor skills, attention and planning. There is still much more to show for these innovations but certainly education with the use of robotics from the early childhood stage will forever change the way tomorrow's future men and women think and learn.
There's actually no doubt that AI is really taking over most sectors and it's really great to see a lovely development like this in class rooms to promote effective learning for students.
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If these innovations are growing in their inclusion in the educational system which is great because robotics poses a new way of looking at problems and their solution. Thanks for sharing a beautiful day to you too.
I think it is excellent that robotics reaches the classrooms of children and contributes to their educational development.
Greetings my dear friend @emimoron and thank you for your valuable contribution.
This innovation from robotics poses a myriad of new ways to transform the learning process and it will be amazing to see in a few years the results of this process. Thanks for sharing
Interesting, this is an early introduction of robotics. No doubt that many of those who will be against it will be the teachers themselves, introducing such drastic changes always generates rejection, and more if they have to learn programming haha. But I imagine that for the children it must be quite an experience, learning commands while they play, this will really influence their way of thinking about robots.
Totally agree, even in many of the opinions a few detractors of these innovations are teachers but especially those who are anchored to old educational schemes because the younger ones are excited as much as children to learn with bee-bots. Thanks for sharing
Hi dear friend @emimoron
Make up an amazing science fiction movie in the future those kids will be smarter than our generation, they are getting a better education
regards
Hello friend imagine the creative possibilities that children will have in a few years if from the age of 3 they are taught the programming language which favors the development of their intelligence through parallel and creative thinking.
You know that the fundamental idea is that children learn that it is they, in general people, who must program computers and not inversely a proposal to curb the misuse of technology that is increasing where human beings allow themselves to be dominated by a tool that is initially a human creation.