How can we not use these three tools for children's maker education?
Children's programming, robots, 3D printing!
Astro boy artificial intelligence believes that these three gadgets are currently popular in primary and secondary school courses. After adjustment and improvement, in the near future, these three tools will appear in early childhood education in another form, which will become the strongest yellow card for children to stand out.
Tool 1: Programming for Children
Children's programming pointer is a programming learning product specially designed for children below high school. Using graphic programming language, the original English code programming language is transformed into graphic modularization and instruction, which is presented in the form of games, scene animations, building blocks and so on. Children's programming visualizes and gamifies the whole programming process, so that children can learn the fun of programming in happiness, exercise logical thinking, and cultivate scientific literacy and problem-solving ability. The representative is Scratch, which is also the teaching software used by Astro Boy artificial intelligence for 8-year-old children. Scratch is a powerful programming tool designed and developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for children and adolescents. It is a brand-new programming language. Children can easily create interactive storylines, animations and games and share them with everyone. There are more than 654.38 million+00000 children studying Scratch in the United States.
At present, technology giants are frequently programming children. For example, as early as 2009, Microsoft released a game called Kodu to let children learn in the game. Starting from 20 13, Apple will hold a "programming hour" activity every year. Google cooperated with MIT to develop a children's programming tool Scratch Blocks and so on.
Tool 2: Robot
Robot education refers to a new educational model that stimulates students' interest in learning and cultivates their comprehensive ability by assembling, building and running robots. It involves mathematics, physics, electronics, mechanics, computer science, engineering, automation technology and artificial intelligence. Robot education in kindergarten will not be ahead of traditional education, but "entertaining" to cultivate children's scientific literacy and innovation ability.
With its unique advantages, robot education reconstructs the traditional teaching mode, provides new methods and new ideas for teaching, makes students feel the joy of hands-on, creation and sharing, and promotes their all-round development.
Tool 3: 3D printing
3D printing technology is a rapid prototyping technology, also known as additive manufacturing. Its basic principle is to cut a designed or scanned 3D model into infinite sections according to a certain coordinate axis, and then print it layer by layer, and pile it together according to the original position to form a three-dimensional 3D model, which sounds a bit like the integral in higher mathematics. 3D printing technology can cultivate children's hobbies, distract creative thinking and improve aesthetic ability. For children, it may be more meaningful to create by their own imagination than any toy. The most direct function of 3D printing in the field of education is to transform the abstract plane graphics in textbooks into real objects, so that students can observe and learn more intuitively in reality. Therefore, 3D printing technology significantly shortens the distance between reality and virtuality. When you need something, turn on the computer, find its virtual model, and then print it out to make it come true.
In recent years, 3D printing technology has become a hot topic in media reports at home and abroad, and it has been applied in more and more fields, especially in the field of education, which also makes 3D printing maker education one of the development trends today.
Astro Boy AI focuses on robot, programming and maker education for 3- 18-year-old children, and provides brand cooperation. I hope his teaching philosophy can be spread, benefit more children and focus on cultivating future-oriented talents. For more information, please pay attention to Astro Boy Artificial Intelligence.