http://www.techbrick.com/Lego/TechBrick/TechTips/NXTCalibration/
A simple way to reduce the effects of the lack of precision in Mindstorms motors.
Monthly Archives: April 2014
MicroView: Chip-sized Arduino with built-in OLED Display
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1516846343/microview-chip-sized-arduino-with-built-in-oled-di
The MicroView is the first chip-sized Arduino compatible that lets you see what your Arduino is thinking using a built-in OLED display. Looks great for education.
Hopscotch – teaching kids to program
An iPad development environment to teach kids how to program
Programming for Everybody – from University of Michigan
https://www.coursera.org/course/pythonlearn
“This course aims to teach everyone to learn the basics of programming computers. The course has no pre-requisites and avoids all but the simplest mathematics. Anyone with moderate computer experience should be able to master the materials in this course”
“The idea of the course is not to be a first Computer Science course – but instead to be a “programming literacy” / “computational thinking” aimed at somewhere between middle of high school and freshman in college or adult learners looking for an “on ramp” for learning about technology”
The course is based on 100% CC-BY materials available from
http://open.umich.edu/education/si/coursera-programming-everybody/winter2014
Ideas for Teaching Computer Technology to Kids 