Robotics | About our Tech Toy | OZOBOT

Hi, I’m Ozobot

Your Game Piece with Brains

I provide kids and techies an expressive way to learn and play with robotics in a variety of social and interactive settings. I come to life when you create mazes, tracks and playgrounds on paper, game boards and digital screens. I also come with free downloadable apps and become your physical avatar for some truly one of a kind augmented reality games.

I teach you code language, robotic behavior and deductive reasoning while effortlessly playing on multi-dimensional environments. Expand your imagination and gain skills for life through my ability to play creative, strategic and competitive games with you.

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Lightbot: Teaching Rudimentary Coding Concepts to Students | Edudemic

By on January 14, 2015

After I tested Lightbot for a week in my classroom and analyzed other online reviews, I can unreservedly endorse it as the best educational programming game for iOS and Android. Relative to competitors, Lightbot has a stronger educational orientation and simpler explanations of complex concepts.

With Lightbot, educators can not only familiarize students with basic programming, but can also hone students’ problem-solving and logical-reasoning skills. Lightbot is a cut above similar apps, thanks to its simple design and pedagogical focus. Read on to learn how Lightbot works and what makes it the preferred programming education tool.

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Is Foreign Language Training the Key to Creating More Coders? | EdSurge News

Tony Zanders Dec 29, 2014

With foreign language degree programs going on the chopping block across the country, and media, business and education leaders sensationalizing the need for a million coders by 2020, one would assume that investment in foreign language training should decrease to fund teaching kids how to code. But is there more to the relationship between human languages and programming languages than meets the eye? In the digital age, the impact of immigration and globalization provides new context for the role of foreign language training, as these two entrepreneurs realized.

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