Free, Accessible Coding for All

Free, Accessible Coding for All

Free, Accessible Coding for All

National Robotics Week is usually a time when kids, parents and teachers across the nation tap into the excitement of robotics for STEM learning. It’s a week that is – under normal circumstances – structured around publicly held events that offer children unique, hands-on learning experiences.

This year’s National Robotics Week is quite different, of course. It's taking place smack dab in the middle of a global pandemic. In spite of this, we push on, finding new ways to learn, explore and socialize... online, from home.

With so many students, parents and teachers navigating at-home education, one thing has become abundantly clear – there is a great need for reliable, effective virtual learning resources.

Amidst this backdrop, iRobot this week announced iRobot Education in order to provide educators and parents with access to educational robots, online resources and programming that we believe offers students unparalleled access to 21st century learning skills.

 iRobot Education offers a free coding platform, learning content and STEM outreach to promote inclusive access to 21st century learning tools

iRobot Education brings together all of iRobot’s education-based products and services, including the Root? coding robot, Create? 2 programmable robot, a new, free iRobot Coding platform, a learning library with both complimentary and premium academic activities, and the company’s STEM outreach program.

Perhaps my favorite part of this week's announcement is the launch of iRobot Coding, a free platform that allows users to build coding skills both virtually online and through the Root coding robot. For those who are not familiar, Root is a robot that is uniquely designed to help kids learn coding at home and in school.

What makes the new coding platform so great is that it’s accessible to anyone who can open a web browser, giving educators and students who do not have a physical Root coding robot the opportunity to still participate in classroom or at-home coding lessons.

Simply navigate to code.irobot.com and you have instant access to iRobot's free coding platform that puts you in control of a virtual Root robot right on the screen.

The iRobot Coding platform gives learners a chancce to control a virtual Root SimBot on their screen using three levels of coding instructions.

There’s also an online learning library that offers access to hours of free tutorials, projects, and activities, while premium lessons modeled after educational standards, such as CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards and Common Core State Standards, are available on a paid subscription basis. On the latter note, iRobot Education is offering free access to the premium content through June 1, 2020. For those interested, enter the code “LEARN” for free access to the paid subscription.

iRobot Education Learning Library

I’d like to thank all of the iRoboteers who were involved in making iRobot Education a reality. Learning to code should be an inclusive, accessible endeavor for anyone who wants to try.

I also hope that the free lessons and coding platform that iRobot Education provides will help facilitate new opportunities for teachers and students while they are outside of the traditional classroom environment.

Aaron Kern

none- current work study at Western Nebraska Community College

4 年

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emiliano gatti

Campus Manager R-Store Apple Premium Reseller, Engineering, italmaker PRESIDENT, maker, Expert teacher coding and robotic for kids, Apple Teacher

4 年

Good job! I'm trying to use the iroot robot web simulator in distance learning, it works well ... It would be perfect if you could insert a background image with boxes and objects to be reached to create objectives, in the simulator area where the virtual robot !!!

Helen Rosenbaum

Marketing & Business Development Manager

4 年

Wow-great program!

Francis Rabuck

Technology/Strategy Research - Visionary Communicator - Futurist - Metaverse - Digital Twins - AI - 5G

4 年

Look forward to checking our these STEM bots. The size of these bots fits the classroom better than the bigger suckers. And the education lessons are what's needed for this to take off.

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