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May 2020
KIBO Webinars and Virtual Office Hours
We are excited to offer these free KIBO informational webinars and virtual office hours for our customers and prospects. During this time interacting with one another and sharing ideas seems like the perfect thing to do! Join us at one of these interactive sessions! Check back for additional dates! Can't attend the live sessions? Check out these recordings! STEAM Learning through Play Using KIBO at Home Please keep checking back as there will be new sessions added weekly. And if…
Find out more »June 2020
Webinar – How Can I Use KIBO in Blended or Distance Learning?
Please join us on June 3rd at 3pm (EST) for the webinar - How Can I Use KIBO in Blended or Distance Learning? Hear from two leading STEM educators from Boston Public Schools and The Agnes Irwin School on their practical suggestions and concrete advice on how to incorporate hands-on, screen-free robotics with KIBO into a distance- or blended-learning model for creative STEAM education both at home and at school. With a bit of prior planning and logistics, KIBO can become a…
Find out more »TCEA Elementary Technology Conference 2020
We are excited to participate in the TCEA Elementary Technology Conference's Viritual Conference this year! Even though we won't have the pleasure of being in person with TX educators, we hope you will be able to come to our session! We invite you our presentation with Cynthia Ramirez from Deer Park ISD at the virtual conference - “Strategies for Implementing STEAM Robotics into Early Learning Classrooms”, on Tuesday, June 16th from 9:45 - 10:45 (CST)! About TCEA's Elementary Technology Conference…
Find out more »Webinar – Storytelling with KIBO: Meeting Early Literacy Milestones with Robotics
Watch the recording of June 30th (EST) webinar - Storytelling with KIBO: Meeting Early Literacy Milestones with Robotics With the frame of storytelling, early childhood STEAM education can support the development of critical early literacy skills: sequencing stories, understanding character and plot, and self-expression. The KIBO robot is a perfect vehicle for storytelling for young children, with its screen-free, hands-on coding and arts integration. Hear from leaders in the field of literacy-based STEAM education, who will share research in robotics…
Find out more »July 2020
NSTA’s STEM20: Virtual Event
We hope you will be able to join us for our KIBO session at NSTA's STEM20 Virtual Event, during their Elementary STEM Showcase on July 27th! We will participate in the Elementary STEM Showcase which is a "social show-and-tell event", bringing together leaders in STEM education offering teaching strategies and resources in the best practices in STEM education for our youngest learners. About the NSTA STEM Summit STA's STEM20: Virtual Event will feature an engaging array of sessions, panels, and…
Find out more »August 2020
Webinar – Developing Computational Thinking in Early Childhood – a Discussion with Dr. Marina Bers
Join us on Wednesday, August 5th at 2pm (EST) for the webinar - "Developing Computational Thinking in Early Childhood - a Discussion with Dr. Marina Bers" Coding and robotics in early childhood give educators wonderful tools to develop new ways of thinking, expressing, and learning for young children. Researchers use the term "computational thinking" to describe the problem solving and critical thinking that young children engage in when programming a robot or computer. But computational thinking is not limited to…
Find out more »October 2020
TCEA Everything Robotics and Computer Science Virtual Symposium
We hope you will be able to join our KIBO session at TCEA Everything Robotics and Computer Science Virtual Symposium, on October 10th! Jason Innes will be presenting "Integrating STEAM Robotics and Coding in PreK-2 Education" on October 10th at 1:30pm (CST) where he will be discussing how your youngest learners can engage in 21st Century learning while integrating robotics and coding into existing classroom projects. TCEA Everything Robotics and Computer Science Virtual Symposium Discover sessions to provide educators with…
Find out more »November 2020
GaETC 2020 Virtual Conference
We hope you will be able to join our KIBO session at the Georgia Educational Technology Conference (GaETC) on November 12th. Jason Innes will be presenting "Get Screen-Free Coding and Robotics into the Hands of Your Youngest Students – In School or at Home!" at 4pm (EST) where he will be discussing how your youngest learners can engage in 21st Century learning while integrating robotics and coding in any learning environment. About GaETC Conference GaETC will be hosting GaETC Connect,…
Find out more »ISTE 2020 Virtual Conference
We hope you will be able to come to the below sessions we will be participating in during the upcoming ISTE 2020 Virtual Conference. Jeff Miller will be part of the session “Champions of CS & CT Playground” on Sunday, November 29th at 9am (PST) where the speakers in this playground will focus on six important areas of computing (PD, Advocacy, Physical Computing, Computing in a Virtual Environment, Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality, Cybersecurity). Within each virtual room, participants will…
Find out more »February 2021
Webinar – Coding as a Playground – Exploring Early Childhood Coding with Dr. Marina Bers
Join us on Tuesday, Feburary 23rd at 1pm (EST) for the webinar - "Coding as a Playground – Exploring Early Childhood Coding with Dr. Marina Bers" Coding in early childhood? Dr. Marina Bers, co-founder or KinderLab and author of the newly updated Coding as a Playground 2nd Edition, will share how coding, engineering, and computational thinking can be age appropriate even for young children from Pre-K through 2nd grade. In fact, coding can support our many developmental goals for these…
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