Kent State University's Child Development Center is using Blue-Bots to help kindergarteners in exploring math and technology concepts through engaging, hands-on activities.
Blue-Bots are small, sturdy robots with big eyes, big smiles and clear, plastic shells that allow curious minds to see how they work. They were designed with the idea of making learning meaningful, interactive, and fun for young children.
The goal of the project, coming from Kent State's Research Center for Education Technology's AT & T Classroom is to embed technology standards into a play-based curriculum using robots as another tool to support children’s learning in spatial reasoning, coding, numbers, and more. This is in keeping with one of the State of Ohio's major priorities in sparking interest in math and technology in students at an early age.
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