Beetbots!

The Bluebots would be beneficial in improving literacy and numeracy skills. The children learn mathematical symbols/ notation by writing a programme for the Bluebots to undergo e.g., Backwards twice = B2. The writing of the programme would not only help develop literacy skills for themselves but also if they were to work in pairs and if one person were to write the programme and the second person were to then perform the instructions written by the first person.

Alike Beebots, Bluebots provoke problem solving, critical thinking and they challenge different ideas. They improve planning skills, competency in action-based activities, cognitive processing skills e.g., attention to detail, etc.

Beebots are a fun and interactive way of enhancing children's language, cognitive and dexterity skills.

As technology has become such a big part of schooling in recent years, it is important that children are competent digital learners 

A Beebot is a clever way of integrating important subjects in the Primary Curriculum with digital learning. For example, while using Beetbots, the students can create a sequence which interlinks with their mathematical learning and improves cognitive development

This is a Beebot following a sequence that was inputted correctly. Our goal was to have the Beebot to travel along the mat into the kitchen

PE is another subject that could be integrated into Digital Learning. The students could become the real-life version of a Beebot and the educator could create a path in the PE hall using sports equipment to create a sequence for the student to follow. 

This would improve children's listening skills, cognition and problem-solving abilities as the children would be entirely dependent on the instruction of their teacher

How can we use them in our teaching and learning?

Science can also be integrated into Digital Learning as you could set up 'trial and error' experiments such as this one where the Beebot is programmed by different students to reach different locations on the playmat. This is an example of a Beebot either needing to be debugged or a student hasn't put in the correct desired code or sequence.

This is a video of a student coming up with a sequence/pattern (coding) for the Beebot to follow

Bluebots are very like Beebots but the difference is that Bluebots are controlled by bluetooth! 

The image below is a control panel for the Bluebot. Because the Bluebots are more technologically advanced, they would be more suitable to more senior classes i.e., 3rd class +

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