The Case for Drones in Schools
Drones have recently taken the world by storm. So much so that in their 2015 K-12 Horizon Report,...
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Category: Robotics
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Rural Robotics Dance Camp at Bribbaree Primary School
MacICT visited a small rural school in Bribbaree during Term 3 of this year to conduct a robotics...
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Leading and learning at the 2015 LEGO Education/Tufts CEEO Conference, California
MacICT’s lead robotics facilitator, John Burfoot, was invited to attend the LEGO Education...
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Partnering with Bridges to Higher Education: Using LEGO robots to widen youth participation into tertiary education
Based within Macquarie University’s Widening Participation Team, Bridges to Higher Education...
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Every Student in Every School Should Learn to Code
There is a much greater need in the world for engineers and people who can write code than there...
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LEGO WeDo Robotics
Imagine a world where your LEGO creations can come alive! Teachers, imagine this happening in an...
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Robotics in Education
The following post is based on an article I was asked to write for Educational Technology...
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Barbara Bratzel is coming to MacICT this August
MacICT in partnership with LEGO Education are proud to announce that world renowned LEGO NXT and...
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A Fresh Approach to Learning: Robotics in the Classroom Guest post by Rob Torok
Robotics is a project-based activity that is motivating and engaging for many students. It draws...
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Robots in the Classroom @MacICT
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. –William Butler Yeats Robotics...
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