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01/2018
littleBits STEAM STUDENT SET
littleBits
STEAM
Electronics kit for building innovations in classrooms.
littleBits STEAM STUDENT SET is an electronics kit for STEAM learning. It includes 16+ hours of lessons with everything that is needed to engage up to 3 students and develop their 21st century skills.
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Age groups
Elementary
Middle school
Price
One time purchase
Languages
English
Platform
Browser-based
Mobile Android
Mobile iOS
Registration
Not required
Offline play
Internet required
Price
One time purchase
littleBits provides an engaging way to practice STEAM learning goals through building inventions with electronics kit.
littleBits offers comprehensive resources for teachers and students in order to help the usage in classrooms and to activate students through meaningful assignments.
After the linear beginning, the learning journey leads to an open ended problem solving space where students are practicing design thinking skills through building inventions.
The littleBits application provides a learning community, with lesson plans and challenges.
The littleBits application gives opportunities for knowledge sharing and sharing of the creative outcomes, which are centric aspects of the product’s pedagogy.
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.
The following are the high educational quality aspects in this product.
littleBits provides easy-to-follow instructional materials which guide users through the first steps while familiarizing them with the electronics kit and STEAM learning goals.
After the linear beginning, the learning journey leads to an open-ended problem-solving space where students are practicing design thinking skills through building inventions.
The littleBits application provides opportunities for knowledge sharing and sharing of creative outcomes, which are centric aspects of the product’s pedagogy.
The supported learning goals are identified by matching the product with several relevant curricula descriptions on this subject area. The soft skills are definitions of learning goals most relevant for the 21st century. They are formed by taking a reference from different definitions of 21st century skills and Finnish curriculum.
Subject based learning goals
Critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others
Develop specifications to inform the design of innovative, functional, appealing products that respond to needs in a variety of situations
Identify and solve their own design problems and understand how to reformulate problems given to them
Select from and use a wider, more complex range of materials, components and ingredients, taking into account their properties
Understand and use the properties of materials and the performance of structural elements to achieve functioning solutions
Understand how more advanced electrical and electronic systems can be powered and used in their products
Use research and develop design criteria to inform the design of innovative, functional, appealing products that are fit for purpose, aimed at particular individuals or groups
Understand and use electrical systems in their products
Understand and use mechanical systems in their products
Use a variety of approaches, to generate creative ideas and avoid stereotypical responses
Apply computing and use electronics to embed intelligence in products that respond to inputs, and control outputs, using programmable components
Build and apply a repertoire of knowledge, understanding and skills in order to design and make high-quality prototypes and products for a wide range of users
Develop and apply their analytic, problem-solving, design, and computational thinking skills.
Understand the hardware and software components that make up computer systems, and how they communicate with one another and with other systems.
Evaluating and applying information technology, including new or unfamiliar technologies, analytically to solve problems
Soft skills learning goals
Using technology resources for problem solving
Practising to understand visual concepts and shapes and observe their qualities
Practicing logical reasoning to understand and interpret information in different forms
Learning to find the joy of learning and new challenges
Learning to acquire, modify and produce information in different forms
Practicing creative thinking
Practicing to improvise
Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
Creating requirements for creative thinking
Encouraging to build new information and visions
Learning to combine information to find new innovations
Practicing to notice causal connections
Practicing to work with others
Learning to plan and organize work processes
Connecting subjects learned at school to skills needed at worklife
Practicing to plan and execute studies, make observations and measurements
Developing problem solving skills
Practicing to look things from different perspectives
Using technology for interaction and collaboration
Building common knowledge of technological solutions and their meaning in everyday life
Understanding and practicing safe and responsible uses of technology
Using technological resources for finding and applying information
Using technology as a part of explorative and creative process
Practicing logical reasoning, algorithms and programming through making
Understanding technological system operations through making
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