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2013 Design Challenge: Robot Enhancements, Software, and Teaching Plans Sponsored by: The African Robotics Network (AFRON) and IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Robots excite people of all ages. Their physical behavior often inspires primary and secondary student interest in computers, science, math, and engineering more broadly.

Thanks Enzo, this looks like something my students could work on as an enrichment project.

Decimals and reading scales come together in this app as the player needs to mark where the given number appears on the number line. Twenty correct answers in a row are needed to complete the challenge. Go to Decimal Line teaching resource.

a software that helps teaching using interactive interfaces

Teach your family about Internet safety, how to avoid online bullying, social media safety, and online gaming safety with help from Microsoft Security.

DA14 Examines the role of Interactive Entertainment in Australian Households. This research makes clear just home much games and other forms of ICT are utilised in the homes of students and helps to explain why students I teach at 4 years of age can navigate the internet!

I post this because it is evidence of the type of learning which only ICTs make possible. While it is fascinating in itself, and Professor David Christian believes we should teach far more complicated science to young children, I have posted it as something to aim for. Won't it be fun when teachers and schools can create their own student/cohort specific learning sites like these.

Level Up Village curriculum teaches STEAM and design thinking through collaborative, real-life problem solving on an international scale.

One of the best resources I have found for free on internet, Excellent design and certifications for free, I use it in my class when I teach English to fifth graders, and people in general. =)

An oldie, but a goodie! Scratch is a free tool designed to support the development of coding skills. Available in 40+ languages and aimed at students aged 8 and up. Students can program their own interactive stories, games, and animations - and share their creations with others in the online community.

Actually there is also a new curriculum for Scratch with worksheets: http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/guide/download.html It has also been translated into several languages. This is a very helpful tool if you want to start introducing programming to a class. I have been using it now twice, and I am happy with the outcome. In particular the worksheets are so helpful and give you more time to support the individual child.

I have use code.org as an introduction before using scratch. It allows the children participate it in games involving angry birds, plants vs zombies, flappy birds and the disney frozen characters.

Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and XBox via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming. Anyone can use Kodu to make a game, young children as well as adults with no design or programming skills.

Repositorio Educativo de la Comunidad Educativa Española Agrega 2 is an initiative developed by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, Red.es and Spain's regional governments. The federation of educational digital object repositories Agrega is a platform with nodes in all regional government education departments. The educational content which can be found therein is organised around the curriculum covering pre-university education and is prepared for downloading and direct use by the teaching staff and the students.

Material didáctico interactivo para aprender vocabulario de un modo lúdico para niños de 7 a 9 años que empiezan a estudiar español. Interactive teaching materials for vocabulary learning in a playful way for children 7-9 years beginning to study Spanish.

Futurelab at NFER is (registered charity number 313392) is committed to developing creative and innovative approaches to education, teaching and learning. We achieve this through a mixture of research, workshops, CPD, training, courses, inset days, events, school development (through our enquiring schools programme), and resources across the UK and internationally.