Episode 96 – What’s New in LEGO Mindstorms

Caroline Hanson

This week we talk about LEGO Mindstorms with Caroline Hanson.  As teacher and member of the LEGO Education Advisory Panel, Caroline routinely uses LEGOs to teach her enrichment courses in reading, math, academic competition, and STEM topics to students at Aspen Middle School in Aspen, Colorado.   Catherine talks to us about her experience with LEGO Mindstorms in the classroom and gives us a preview of the new LEGO Mindstorms EV3.

Links

• LEGO Mindstorms
• LEGO Education
• Caroline Hanson, LEGO Education (pdf)
• Caroline Hanson, Ascent Program – Aspen Middle School
• Caroline Hanson’s Multimedia Blog
• Learning Math through LEGO (Aspen Times)
• Tony Wagner’s “Creating Innovators”
• The NXT Step (EV3 Lego Mindstorms Blog)
• LEGO Mindstorms NXT Robot Blog
• NASA Robotics Alliance Project
• k12lab
• Carnegie Science Student Network
• NXTprograms.com
• TEACH Engineering
• Damien Kee – Technology in Education

Introducing EV3

Teaching STEM with EV3

Featured Image Courtesy of LEGO.

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