KidsLab - a podcast for parents and educators passionate about STEAM education
69 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsKidsLab is a podcast for parents, educators and everybody interested in STEAM education. STEAM - that’s Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Mathematics - all the good stuff! In each episode, your host Sven Haiges introduces an educational project, service or even a toy and speaks to a key person such as one of the creators or founders. From time to time, we also chat with experienced STEAM educators and book authors who share their lessons learnt with us. https://kidslab.dev
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Roboy & Lucy with Rafael Hostettler
November 30, 2020 17:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBI am talking to Rafael Hostettler, he’s the guardian and project lead of Roboy - a very exciting robotics project of Devanthro GmbH. Late last year, they’ve also kickstarted and released a children’s book called Roboy & Lucy. Rafael is Roboy’s legal guardian and project lead. He has an Master in Computational Science and Engineering from ETH Zurich, Switzerland and works towards his PhD at the robotics and embedded systems lab at the Technical University of Munich. He’s a true robotics enth...
Otto DIY with Camilo Parra Palacio
November 23, 2020 17:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBToday on the show, I am talking to Camilo Parra Palacio, the founder of Otto DIY - it’s all about 3D printable robot components and project kids to take your STEAM learning to new levels. Camilo is a Product Design Engineer and the Founder of Otto DIY. He’s a Designer by profession, roboticist and 3D printing enthusiast by passion. Born in Colombia a drive for adventure and pursuing his dreams took him to China in 2014, while working in Shanghai for a multinational inflatable toy manufact...
Finch Robot 2.0 with Bambi Brewer
November 16, 2020 17:00 - 23 minutes - 16 MBI am talking to Bambi Brewer about the new Finch Robot 2.0. Bambi is the director of Engineering at Birdbrain Technologies, the creators of the Finch Robot. Bambi works from the beginning to the end of the development process to design new products, ensure software is reliable and easy to use, and create curriculum pathways to help take robotics projects to the next level. She has a bachelor in math and physics from Rhodes College, and a Ph.D. in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. S...
The Next-Generation Calliope Mini with Jørn Alraun
November 09, 2020 17:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBIn this episode, I am talking to Joern Alraun, managing partner at Calliope, about the next version of the Calliope Mini Single Board Computer - Calliope Mini v2. That’s the second time that I interview Joern and the third time we discuss the Calliope Mini - it’s simply a very cool board I guess. Jørn is an interaction designer, co-founder of several companies with a focus on developing digital learning toys and he is a member of the Interaction Design Association. As you might recall, Jo...
KryptoKids with Birgit Schlotter
November 02, 2020 17:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBIn this episode, I am talking to Birgit Schlotter about KryptoKids - KryptoKids is German online project and game about online privacy. Birgit is an information technologist and educational expert, focusing on media pedagogy. Since 2018, she is working at the office of youth media culture in North-Rhine Westfalia, which is a part of Germany. There, her main occupation is around data privacy and security. KryptoKids is a adventure game for kids from 8 years on about privacy. That’s a topi...
Solarbotics with Dave Hrynkiw
October 26, 2020 17:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBIn this episode, I am talking to Dave Hrynkiw, the president of Solarbotics. Solarbotics is selling educational robotic kits for any skill level. My interviewee, Dave, is the President of Solarbotics Ltd., a hobby robotics company based in Calgary, Canada. He started out with a Mechanical Engineering background in typical Alberta format - designing down-hole oil tools. As he has always had a fondness for clever mechanics, he educated himself in analog and digital electronics. At that ti...
TechnoChic with Natasha Dzurny
October 19, 2020 16:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBIn this episode, I am talking to Natasha Dzurny from TechnoChic. TechnoChic Tech-Craft Kits provide resources, inspiration and supplies for crafters to explore technology and techies to explore craft. Natasha is the founder of TechnoChic and she is using her passion for arts and crafts and DIY tech to transform the way the world understands and creates with technology. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Advertising Design from the Savannah College of Art and Design and a Masters Degree ...
Bright Wearables with Debra Ansell
October 12, 2020 16:00 - 24 minutes - 17.2 MBI am talking to Debra Ansell - she’s the creator of the blog Geek Mom Projects and the founder of Bright Wearables - they sell hackable and customizable accessories for kids. Debra is a technophile mom of three boys and always looking for new projects to tackle. I love what she wrote in the about me section of her blog: \“I decided to start blogging because, as Adam Savage of Mythbusters says: “…the only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.” \“ So her blog, g...
The SpinWheel with Bridget Hegarty
October 05, 2020 16:00 - 24 minutes - 17 MBI am talking to Bridget Hegarty about the SpinWheel. The SpinWheel is a small, colorful, programmable, wearable kit to facilitate student exploration of physics, engineering, and computer science. Bridget is part of the SpinWheel Team, a group of volunteers with a passion for teaching science and building beautiful things. She is a postdoc researcher in Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. As a kid, Bridget was always asking “why?” Luckily, her parents put up with her ...
CodeGrades, PyperCard and Mu Editor with Nicholas Tollervey
September 28, 2020 16:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBIn this episode, I am talking to Nicholas Tollervey about CodeGrades but we’re also touching on some of his other projects like PyperCard and the Mu Editor. I took the following from an O’Reilly book author page, but I think it’s a great description for Nicholas: Nicholas is a classically trained musician, philosophy graduate, teacher, writer and software developer. He's just like this biography: concise, honest and full of useful information. Nicholas develops software that helps folks le...
Bloxels with Rob Bennet
September 21, 2020 16:00 - 26 minutes - 17.9 MBIn this episode, I am talking to Rob Bennet, the Co-Founder and CEO of Pixel Press. With Bloxels, one of their services, kids can create their own interactive games. Bloxels is one of his creations that started 7 years ago. Bloxels is all about building video games, a topic that you can imagine resonates very well with kids. According to their website, more than 20k educators are using Bloxels in their classrooms today. Games, Characters, Art and and Backgrounds - those are the elements yo...
The Raspberry Pi with James Robinson
September 14, 2020 16:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBIn this episode, I am talking to James Robinson about the Raspberry PI. The Raspberry Pi is a series of small single-board computers with the common goal to promote teaching of basic computing in schools and in developing countries. James is a senior learning manager at the Raspberry Pi Foundation. As a former teacher he is passionate about supporting teachers develop and apply effective teaching approaches for computing pedagogy and training. James enjoys learning new maker skills from k...
NewTechKids with Deborah Carter
September 07, 2020 16:00 - 35 minutes - 24.8 MBIn this episode, I am talking to Deborah Carter about New Tech Kids - it’s a technology academy in Amsterdam which teaches primary school aged kids about tech innovation. Deborah is the CO-FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR of NewTechKids. In 2014, she made the leap into entrepreneurship to launch NewTechKids. With a son enrolled in Dutch primary school, she looked around for a place where he and other children could fall in love with technological innovation and computer science and learn how to...
Scoutlab with Johannes Engelke
August 31, 2020 16:00 - 20 minutes - 13.8 MBIn this episode, I am talking to Johannes Engelke, the initiator of ScoutLab. ScoutLab is part of a German scouting club and organizes workshops and events around topics such as the internet, electronics or the maker movement. Full disclosure, Johannes is a long-time colleague at SAP and the idea for this episode arose during a coffee corner chat. Johannes Engelke is also a Scout since his 10th birthday. He started in a small group in Hamburg where he also did his first steps as a group ...
Foldio with Amir Baradaran
August 24, 2020 14:00 - 23 minutes - 15.9 MBI am talking to Amir Baradaran, the CEO and Co-Founder of Foldio. Foldio creates foldable educational toys that work with the well-known Calliope Mini board. Amir is part of the founding team of Foldio, a company that has its roots at the University of Saarland, Germany. A small team of student researchers took on the challenge to create an educational system that includes paper-based printed circuit boards. Printed circuit boards are essential for modern day electronics and computers, b...
Momentix Toys with Anna Gilbertson and Alana Aamodt
August 17, 2020 16:00 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MBIn this episode, I am talking to Anna Gilbertson and Alana Aamodt from Momentix Toys. They make toys that use chain reaction machines to teach critical STEAM skills to kids 7 and up. My two interviewees make up the founding team of Momentix Toys - Anna and Alana. They met in college while studying physics and that’s also where the idea for Momentix first came up and started to develop. Momentix Toys has been kickstarted early 2020 is still quite on track despite the Corona Pandemic. I ca...
Blockly with Neil Fraser
August 10, 2020 15:00 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MBIn this episode I am talking to Neil Fraser, the inventor of Blockly. Blockly is a JavaScript library for building visual programming editors. Neil works as a software engineer at Google in Mountain View, California, USA - for more than a decade. In his spare time he’s an active maker and tinkerer and also created a variety of open source software. Neil is also the initial creator of Blockly - a JavaScript library for building visual programming editors. We’ve covered block-based, visual ...
MicroBlocks with Bernat Romagosa
August 03, 2020 15:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBThis episode features an interview with Bernat Romagosa about MicroBlocks, which can be used to program common educational boards such as the BBC micro:bit, Calliope Mini or the Adafruit Circuit Playground Express. So what is MicroBlocks all about? MicroBlocks is a new programming language inspired by Scratch, that runs right inside microcontroller boards such as the BBC micro:bit, the Calliope Mini or Adafruit’s Circuit Playground Express. After installing the MicroBlocks editor and flash...
DroneBlocks with Dennis Baldwin
July 27, 2020 17:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBThis episode features an interview with Dennis Baldwin, the creator of DroneBlocks. DroneBlocks teaches STEM and the real-world application of drone technology. Droneblocks is block-based programming for drones. After connecting the Wifi of a Laptop. Tablet or Smartphone, the students can connect to the drone and run their missions. Missions are sets of blocks, typically beginning with a takeoff, followed by various commands such as fly forward, yaw right, etc. and finally - of course - you...
Tinkertoys with Sebastian Friedrich
July 20, 2020 14:00 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MBIn this episode, we’re talking to Sebastian Friedrich, the CEO and Co-Founder of Tinkertoys. Tinkertoys allows kids to design their own toys online which will then be 3D printed and delivered to their homes. So what is Tinkertoys all about? In short, it’s all about showing kids what they are capable of constructing. Using Tinkertoys, kids can create their own toys via an easy to use web-based editor. Once a design is finished, you can choose to have it produced by Tinkertoys and delivered ...
Save the World with Code with Lorraine Underwood
July 13, 2020 18:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBIn this episode, I am talking to Lorraine Underwood about her book Save the World with Code. It’s a book filled with great projects for the Raspberry PI, Adafruit Circuit Playground and the BBC micro:bit. Lorraine is originally from Ireland and now lives in the UK with her husband and two young boys. She is a trained secondary school teacher in Information Communication Technology and currently works at Lancaster University as a Senior Teaching Associate, teaching Applied and Creative Comp...
Machine Learning for Kids with Dale Lane
July 06, 2020 16:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBI am talking to Dale Lane, the creator of Machine Learning for Kids - an extension to Scratch that allows kids to train their own ML models and use them from their Scratch programs. As Dale writes on his website, he’s a father of two exhausting kids, a software developer for IBM in the UK, a mobile and gadget obsessive, a charity trustee and an all-round geek. Dale is with IBM for more than 16 years now. During his career, he came across many of IBM’s Artificial Intelligence and Machine L...
Sonic Pi with Sam Aaron
June 29, 2020 16:00 - 40 minutes - 28.2 MBIn this episode, I am talking to Dr. Sam Aaron, the creator of Sonic Pi. Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and performance tool. Sam is the creator of Sonic Pi, and also an educator, musician, and was previously also a researcher at the University of Cambridge in the UK. He has created and contributed to an impressive array of open source projects - just one of them is Sonic Pi, which we’re focusing on for this episode. Sonic Pi, is an essential part of the so-called live coding mus...
Zerus and Ona with Miriam Tocino
June 22, 2020 16:00 - 27 minutes - 18.6 MBIn this episode, I am talking to Miriam Tocino about her children’s book series Zerus and Ona in which she explores the world of computers. As Miriam writes on her website, she is a mom, software developer and programming teacher dedicated to making computers more approachable, friendly and easy to understand to get children (and parents!) all excited about technology. Miriam originally studied architecture but once she met her husband, a video game programmer, her life changed. Infected...
The Boson Starter Kit for Calliope Mini with Jørn Alraun
June 15, 2020 16:00 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBIn this episode, I am talking to Joern Alraun, managing partner at Calliope gGmbH about the Boson Starter Kit for the Calliope Mini Single Board Computer. Jørn is an interaction designer, co-founder of several companies with a focus on developing digital learning toys and he is a member of the Interaction Design Association. More importantly, at least for this interview, he is a managing partner at Calliope gGmbH so he is well aware of everything that concerns the Calliope Mini single bo...
Learning Math via Computer Programming with Kristen Reed and Paul Goldenberg
June 08, 2020 16:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBIn this episode, I am talking to Kristen Reed and Paul Goldenberg from Education Development Center, near Boston, MA, USA. Education Development Center is a global nonprofit that advances lasting solutions to improve education, promote health, and expand economic opportunity. Kristen Reed is an expert in early childhood and elementary mathematics, and she is dedicated to helping children, families, and educators find the fun and challenge of engagement in mathematics. Paul Goldenberg is a...
Codebug with Dr. Andrew Robinson
June 01, 2020 16:00 - 27 minutes - 19.3 MBIn this episode, I am talking to Dr. Andrew Robinson about the CodeBug - a cute, programmable, light-up wearable for everyone. Andrew is the project leader for CodeBug a director of an engineering consultancy and part time lecturer in Manchester, where previously he completed his PhD in low power embedded processors. Andrew is passionate about education and engineering and can trace his enthusiasm for electronics and computers back to building a working model lighthouse aged 5. His work wa...
Brown Dog Gadgets with Joshua Zimmerman
May 25, 2020 16:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBI am talking to Joshua Zimmerman, the founder of Brown Dog Gadgets. Brown Dog Gadgets sells inexpensive so-called make-and-take projects that kids can take home once they are finished with their classroom activities. Originally a middle school teacher, Joshua found it very annoying as a teacher that all the fun science activities his students were doing had to be disassembled at the end of each class. This is pretty much how Brown Dog Gadgets came to be.
Potato Pirates with Tat Leong
May 18, 2020 18:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBWe’re talking to Tat Leong, the CTO of Codomo from Singapore about Potato Pirates, a fun coding game for the whole family. The Codomo team is made up of pioneer students from the Singapore University of Technology and Design, where problem-solving via design thinking was a central component of their studies. Their first Kickstarter was a game called Potato Pirates. Potato Pirates is a coding card game that is designed to get children to learn 10 hours of programming concepts in just 30 m...
The Lavender Spaceship Project with Pranati Bagchi
May 11, 2020 16:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MBToday on the show, we’re talking to Pranati Bagchi, the founder of The Lavender Spaceship Project in Singapore. Pranati, the founder of the Lavender Spaceship Project, is a mathematics teacher with many years of global teaching experience across the United States, Singapore and India. She has a Master of Education from Rutgers University, USA and a Masters degree in Mathematics from India. She is also a STEM certified teacher from National Institute of STEM Education, USA and holds a certi...
The Ifs with Borja Latorre
May 04, 2020 16:00 - 15 minutes - 10.9 MBToday on the show, we’re talking to Borja Latorre, co-creator of “The Ifs” - and educational toy which is similar to If This Then That for the physical world and of course it’s for kids. Our interviewee, Borja, is a software developer with over 15 years experience in research & development for scientific applications. He holds a B.Sc. in Physics and a M.Sc. and Ph.D in Computer Science. Borja truly believes that technology has the potential to make the world a better place. In 2013, he co-...
The HABA Digitalwerkstatt with Viktoria Brackertz
April 27, 2020 16:00 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MBSince 2019, Viktoria is the Lead for the Munich location of the HABA Digitalwerkstaetten. She originally studied Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich and she is also a trained Ergo Therapist. The HABA digital workshop spaces offer after-school activities for kids and they are spread across Germany. By now there are 10 locations in Germany and Viktoria is leading the Munich one. The workshops and classes are targeted towards kids between 6 to 12 years old and the goal ...
Evil Mad Scientist Labs with Lenore Edman
April 20, 2020 16:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBIn this episode I am talking to Lenore Edman from Evil Mad Scientist Labs about their extremely cool but also very educational project kits such as the egg-bot, which is a drawing robot for eggs! Lenore is the Co-Founder of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories and currently lives in Sunnyvale, California - if you don’t know that’s the “heart of the silicon valley” according to the city brochure of Sunnyvale - but seriously, it could not be more central in the valley. Established in 2006, Evil M...
Ellie Saves the Day with Brandon Satrom
April 13, 2020 16:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBIn this episode, we’re talking to Brandon Satrom about his book Ellie Saves the Day - it’s a story about electricity and circuits for the next generation of maker girls and boys! Brandon's day job is all about IoT, so a big chunk of this episode we discuss what IoT is all about and how teachers and kids can understand its' concepts. A tinkerer at heart, Brandon's love for electronics extends back to the Nintendo Entertainment System he would take apart and reassemble when simply blowing on...
Corona Virus: Rikke Paaskesen about their free KUBO webinars and recommendations for tinkering at home
April 08, 2020 05:00 - 4 minutes - 3.19 MBIn this recording, Rikke Paaskesen from KUBO robotics explains how they are switching to virtual meetings and what activities parents and teachers can do at home with their kids or students. There is a full episode with Rikke about KUBO Robotics available here. Background: At the beginning of last week (March 16th to be exact), it became obvious to me here in Munich, Germany, that the Corona Virus will severely impact our lives. While I was working from home already for more than a week,...
Python on the BBC micro:bit with Jonathan Austin
April 06, 2020 15:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBWe're talking to Jonathan Austin, CTO of the micro:bit foundation about coding the BBC micro:bit via the text-based python programming language. When it comes to programming the micro:bit, the Python Editor allows you to use the Python programming language - which is text-based and non-visual in comparison to the MakeCode editor. To be exact, you can use MicroPython on the micro:bit. MicroPython is a lean and efficient implementation of the Python 3 programming language that includes a sma...
BlocksCAD with Solomon Menashi
March 30, 2020 16:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MBIn this episode, we’re talking to Solomon Menashi, the CEO and Co-Founder of BlocksCAD. BlocksCAD is a cloud-based 3D modeling tool that encourages users to learn math, computational thinking and coding concepts through visualization and designing models to be 3D printed. BlocksCAD is a cloud based 3d modelling tool, which means kids and teachers can simply use their web browser and a block-based visual coding language to create 3d shapes. By dragging blocks such as cubes & spheres into the...
Corona Virus: The SpinWearables team about virtual teamwork and labs, their Kickstarter SpinWheel and a free online event for parents
March 29, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 3.96 MBThis recording is done directly by the SpinWearbles team, including Bridget Hegarty, Stefan Krastanov and Samantha Pagan. They describe how their university work moved online into virtual labs and workshops and also how it affects their current Kickstarter project The SpinWheel. They'll host a free online event on April 4th for parents & teachers to learn more about STEAM activities for their students. A future episode with Bridget from SpinWearables is already scheduled - be sure to subsc...
Corona Virus: Pen Holland about her current situation, virtual research workshops and what we can teach our children in these times: BE KIND.
March 24, 2020 14:00 - 4 minutes - 3.02 MBThis recording is done directly by Pen Holland from York, UK. Besides describing the current situation in the UK, she explains how they virtualized their research workshops due to the Corona virus and what our kids can learn from these times: be resilient, Be Kind! The full episode with Pen Holland and Sarah Wyse about Pieter the Seed Eater is here! Background: At the beginning of last week (March 16th to be exact), it became obvious to me here in Munich, Germany, that the Corona Virus wi...
Corona Virus: Pen Holland about her current situation, virtual research workshops and what we can teach our children in these times: BE KIND.
March 24, 2020 14:00 - 4 minutes - 3.02 MBThis recording is done directly by Pen Holland from York, UK. Besides describing the current situation in the UK, she explains how they virtualized their research workshops due to the Corona virus and what our kids can learn from these times: be resilient, Be Kind! The full episode with Pen Holland and Sarah Wyse about Pieter the Seed Eater is here! Background: At the beginning of last week (March 16th to be exact), it became obvious to me here in Munich, Germany, that the Corona Virus wi...
TheDadLab with Sergei Urban
March 23, 2020 16:00 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MBToday on the show, we’re talking to Sergei Urban, the creator of the TheDadLab. It’s mission is simple: teaching science through play! Sergei is a stay-at-home father who started TheDadLab as a way to inspire fun activities others can do from home while educating their children and spending more quality time with them. Sergei also published a book with these activities and experiments, which includes 50 science projects. It already got translated to 7 languages and even more languages ar...
Corona Virus: Solomon Menashi about distance learning with the new online materials for BlocksCAD from Boston, MA, USA
March 22, 2020 19:00 - 1 minute - 1.29 MBThis recording is by Solomon Menashi, the CEO and Co-Founder of BlocksCAD. BlocksCAD is a cloud-based 3D modelling tool that encourages users to learn math, computational thinking and coding concepts through visualization and designing models to be 3D printed. Follow the links in the shownotes of this episode for a special parents guide as well as information for educators and schools. The full episode with Solomon about BlocksCAD is here. Background: At the beginning of this week (March ...
Corona Virus: Brandon Satrom with great tips all parents who are suddenly home-schooling their kids from Austin, Texas, USA
March 20, 2020 18:00 - 4 minutes - 3.17 MBThis recording is by Brandon Satrom from Austin, Texas, USA. He and his wife are long-time home schoolers and he does provide lot's of great advice for all parents who find themselves suddenly in this situation. The full episode with Brandon wil be released on April 14, 2020 - please be sure to subscribe to the KidsLab Podcast if you have not done this so far. Background: At the beginning of this week (March 16th to be exact), it became obvious to me here in Munich, Germany, that the Cor...
Corona Virus: Pranati Bagchi describes the school situation in Singapore, the impact on her educational business and video-conferencing tools for online classes
March 20, 2020 14:00 - 2 minutes - 1.48 MBIn this recording, Pranati Bagchi, Founder of The Lavender Spaceship Project from Singapore explain the local situation. While schools are still open, measures of social distancing have been undertaken and her daughter already has online classes. If you are interested to hear more about Scratch, we have a full episode with Eric Rosenbaum about it. Background: At the beginning of this week (March 16th to be exact), it became obvious to me here in Munich, Germany, that the Corona Virus wil...
Corona Virus: Marc Pous about conductive dough and training teachers on the BBC micro:bit from Barcelona, Spain
March 19, 2020 18:00 - 3 minutes - 2.54 MBThis recording is done directly by Marc Pous, the founder and CEO of the IoT platform thethings.io from Barcelona, Spain. He's got young kids at home that are learning to read - so he's focusing on experiments like conductive dough for example. He's also describing how they are teaching the teachers in Scratch and using the BBC micro:bit. Here's a full KidsLab Podcast Episode about Conductive Dough: Squishy Circuits with Dr. AnnMarie Thomas! Background: At the beginning of this week (Marc...
Corona Virus: Sven Haiges about the use of video-conferencing and maintaining a proper schedule from Munich, Germany
March 19, 2020 07:00 - 2 minutes - 1.87 MBI am sharing our situation here in Germany, we're close to Munich and schools are closed since the beginning of the week. We use a mix of digital technologies to work and also educate the kids - lot's of video-conferencing via Google Hangouts, sharing via Google Classroom and various messengers. Background: At the beginning of this week (March 16th to be exact), it became obvious to me here in Munich, Germany, that the Corona Virus will severely impact our lives. While I was working from h...
Corona Virus: Giles Booth about remote teaching with the BBC micro:bit classroom and the situation in London, UK
March 18, 2020 19:00 - 2 minutes - 2.05 MBThis recording is done directly by Giles Booth, the Educational Content Manager at the BBC Microbit Foundation. He's describing the current Corona / Covid19 situation in the UK and how it impacts their lifes. He's also describing great resources for remote teaching with the BBC micro:bit - one should note that some lessons don't even require a physical micro:bit! https://classroom.microbit.org/ Interview with Giles Booth about the BBC micro:bit: https://kidslab.dev/2020/02/10/the-bbc-micro...
Pieter the Seed Eater with Pen Holland and Sarah Wyse
March 16, 2020 19:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBIn this episode, we’re talking to Dr. Pen Holland and Dr. Sarah Wyse about Pieter, the Seed Eater. This project is really cross-over, there’s lot’s of biology, math and computer science involved. Dr Pen Holland is a lecturer in ecology, and a RPi certified educator at the University of York. She is also is a quantitative ecologist whose interests range from using simple models to understand complex ecological problems, to developing novel ways to teach, disseminate research, and engage p...
Scratch with Eric Rosenbaum
March 09, 2020 18:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBIn this episode, we’re talking to Eric Rosenbaum - mainly about Scratch, which is a block-based visual programming language. But there is so much more he’s involved with, for example Makey Makey, Drawdio or Singing Fingers. The first line of Eric’s biography says it all - it reads: “I design for creative play”. This could not be more true just look at the array of creative educational projects he was and is involved with. Foremost, there is Scratch - a block-based visual programming lang...
TurtleStitch with Andrea Mayr-Stalder
March 02, 2020 18:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBIn this episode, we’re talking to Andrea Mayr-Stalder about TurtleStitch. TurtleStitch allows kids to visually code a stitching path, export it and then have a real embroidery machine produce it! Andrea Mayr-Stalder is an artist, educator and the project lead for TurtleStitch and is from Vienna, Austria. Turtlestitch is based on Snap!, a browser-based educational programming language, and is used to generate patterns for embroidery machines. (c) episode image with Andrea is by Georg Oberwe...