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CertifiedEducation quality
01/2021
Mabot

Mabot

Bell Education Group
Robotics and electronics
Mabot is a modular educational robot that is controlled with Mabot Go, Mabot Star and Mabot IDE apps.

Mabot is an educational robot that was developed for children above 3 years of age. It has been designed as a plug-and-play toy that is ready for playing immediately. With its spherical structure and appealing colors in yellow and white, this learning robot aims at arousing interest and enthusiasm. Containing a variety of sensors, such as infrared sensors, color sensors, touch sensors as well as electronic modules, Mabot presents itself as a coherent overall system that invites children to use the modular components to put together their own robots. It allows creating different types of robots and thus increases the kids' learning interest. For school use, Mabot offers curriculum material and an assessment framework that can be used when working with the robot.

Age groups 
Preschool
Elementary
Middle school
High School
Languages 
English
Chinese
Korean
Platform 
Mobile Android
Mobile iOS
Registration 
Not required
Offline play 
Playable offline
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Pedagogy
Educational Quality
Learning Goals

The pedagogical analysis covers how the product supports learning of the identified skills. The student’s role is assessed by four contrary pair parameters, which are selected to cover the most essential aspects on the use of the product.

Passive
Active
Working with the robot is highly interactive and the learners need to actively engage with the content to solve the problems proposed in the Mabot curriculum, or when creating robots freely on their own. The UI in the programming app guides understanding of the concepts well.
Rehearse
Construct
Mabot curriculum gives clear guidance for the projects, and the students can follow the instructions to learn. Learning also requires utilizing learned in open-ended problem-solving. In each lesson, there is a reflection and assessment part, and the clear questions guide the assessment. Mabot GO and Mabot ID both have a clear purpose, and they are used in a meaningful way in the curriculum.
Linear
Non-linear/Creative
The curriculum provides a clear, linear, progression path to follow. The clear structure provides accurately predictable learning outcomes. However, the teacher can easily adapt it, depending on the students' knowledge baseline and interests. The challenges have different levels and the expanded options give good tips about what else to include to the program. The Mabot Go and Mabot IDE apps allow free exploration of the programming options and are designed to suit young learners.
Individual
Collaborative
In a classroom setting, working with the robot allows face-to-face collaboration and a chance to learn from other student's work.

The Finnish Educational Quality Certificate

Our Quality Evaluation Method is an academically sound approach to evaluating a product’s pedagogical design from the viewpoint of educational psychology.

The method has been developed with university researchers and all evaluators are carefully selected Finnish teachers with a master's degree in education.

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