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Ep 19: Hands-on Learning

Apr 15, 2021

Roll up your sleeves, because episode 19 is all about hands-on learning! 

Our host this week is our digital maestro, David Hickinson. His guests are John Pinkney, who is a learning advisor at Raising Robots and also a certified LEGO Education trainer. And Stuart Swann, former ICT Lead and a now consultant and LEGO Education Academy Trainer.

 

Show notes 

Raising Robots

Raising Robots on Twitter

IE Solutions 

Stuart Swann on Twitter

The LEGO Foundation

LEGO Education

 

Further reading:

Play Well Report

Six Bricks

Seymour Papert: Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas

Mitchel Resnick: Lifelong Kindergarten

Learning Connected: A Year of Making and Learning

 

Robots:

Pepper

LEGO Mindstorms

NAO

Bee-Bots