Using Lego to Drive Learning
As much as I would have loved to have been in Melbourne all week for ACEC 2010 , it just wasn't on the cards for me. A pity, because it sounded like there was a lot of really interesting sessions to attend, and one that particularly caught my eye was the Lego Robotics one with Chris Rogers , a professor of engineering from the Centre for Engineering, Education and Outreach at Tufts University in Boston. I've been a Lego fanboy for a long time, and have worked with kids to do some pretty awesome stuff with it over the years, but unfortunately my current school doesn't really do very much with Lego. (In fact, computer programming in general gets a pretty rough deal at PLC, something that I'd really like to see change) However, we do run a Computer Club every week in our junior school and we've decided that we will introduce programming to these kids to start with. We've begun by getting them going with Scratch , with a plan to get some Lego Robotics gear and ma...