Piper, un kit para que los más pequeños aprendan electrónica mientras juegan a Minecraft. Con frecuencia os hablamos acerca de distintas iniciativas que tienen por objetivo fomentar el interés de los más pequeños por el mundo de la electrónica, la tecnología o la ingeniería de una forma en entretenida.
En esta ocasión nos ha llamado la atención Piper, un kit para que los más pequeños aprendan electrónica mientras juegan a Minecraft. Si nos centramos en el contenido del kit, Piper incluye una carcasa, pantalla LED de 7 pulgadas, raton USB, Raspberry Pi, batería y una protoboard para conectar los sensores, luces y botones que también recibiremos al adquirir una unidad. El concepto del que parte Piper es de lo más sencillo: permitirá jugar a los más pequeños con una versión modificada de Minecraft a la misma vez que crean y aprenden cosas nuevas relacionadas con la electrónica. Sin duda, se trata de una método interesante, sobre todo si tenemos en cuenta la popularidad de Minecraft entre los más pequeños. Hour of Code Unplugged: Computational Thinking without a Computer.
Believe it or not, you don’t need to have access to computers to teach kids computational thinking.
Students can learn some important practices with just a paper and a pencil. Here’s a project kids can complete without any computer access. Even if you have your Hour of Code project ready to go online, you may want to keep this nearby as a handy backup in case the unexpected happens. Materials Needed Paper Pencils or pens Instruction Engineering: Kids create instructions on how to make something. How To Students are divided into groups of 2 to 5.
They do not share their topic with any other team. Modkit. Codemonkey, un juego para que los niños aprendan programación. Codemonkey es una excelente alternativa que podemos sumar a los cientos de servicios y aplicaciones pensados para que los niños se inicien en la programación.
La dinámica que propone Codemonkey es simple y entretenida, ya que basa en un juego con una serie de retos que los niños tienen que superar. La consigna es que el mono siempre obtenga sus plátanos, y para ello habrá que sortear treinta desafíos mientras se van mostrando conceptos básicos de programación. Antes de comenzar cada reto hay pequeños tutoriales, que se repetirán tantas veces sea necesario. No es necesario crear una cuenta para activar el juego, aunque podemos registrarnos a través de nuestro correo electrónico o simplemente con un nombre de usuario y contraseña.
Primo. Hackety Hack! Hopscotch: Coding for kids, a visual programming language. ARIS - Mobile Learning Experiences - Creating educational games on the iPhone. There are no translations available.
Descubre esta aplicación que nos permite crear nuestro propio videojuego, además de poder jugar con los que vienen ya instalados. An overview of Kodu.
(Click to play) Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and Xbox via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming. Anyone can use Kodu to make a game, young children as well as adults with no design or programming skills. Since Kodu's introduction in 2009, we have visited the White House, teamed up with great groups like NCWIT and DigiGirlz, inspired academic research and been the subject of a book (Kodu for Kids). Kodu for the PC is available to download for free. Hopscotch: Coding for kids, a visual programming language. Lightbot. Tynker Launches an iPad App That Helps Kids Learn Programming. Cargo-Bot – iPad. The first game programmed entirely on iPad® Be Logical.
Play Cargo-Bot Presenting Cargo-Bot. The first game programmed entirely on iPad using Codea™ Get it for free on the App Store. Cargo-Bot is a puzzle game where you teach a robot how to move crates. It features 36 fiendishly clever puzzles, haunting music and stunning retina graphics. Built with Codea Cargo-Bot is the first game on the App Store developed using Codea, an iPad app for rapidly creating games and simulations. Get Codea on the App Store. Cargo-Bot was developed by Rui Viana using Codea.
Fred Bogg coded the entire music engine using Codea's sound API, as well as composing the Cargo-Bot score. Kodable. Daisy the Dinosaur. Kids must code on iPads. An important 21st Century skill This post is about a topic and app close to my heart.
Computer programming is the engine of modern life and dream maker for tens of thousands. More and more countries are introducing the subject as compulsory schooling at surprisingly young ages. The UK is introducing a national school programme in september this year whilst also funding yearofcode.org to increase momentum. Code.org is pushing an international message with big-name endorsement. What learning to code offers young people.
Even I was surprised at how much my students have enjoyed their first experience of coding this year. Accessible to anyone Coding is problem solving and like any puzzle, it seems to immediately engage kids as long as the puzzle pieces are easy to play with and move around. Quick & keen “Let’s make Flappy Birds!” Within the first hour, a 12-year-old had already realised the the ‘world issue’ that was “the death of Flappy Birds” could be solved with Hopscotch. Like this: