![]() ![]() Design and development for WeDo 2.0, as well as teaching both children and adults using this set has been pure pleasure for the last couple of years. And that's no exaggeration.Įven in RoboCamp team, this set has been one of our favorites for years. On the dynamic market of educational tools for programming and robotics, where at least a dozen new interesting products are launched every year, WeDo 2.0 remains the unparallelled champion. The set is child-friendly, well prepared for learning at school, and has an unbeatable price to possibilities ratio. Today, after almost 5 years working with this set, we state with confidence that WeDo 2.0 is the best set for teaching kids robotics created by LEGO Education.įrom the teacher's perspective, there's just no better educational tool. Several months later, we published the original ultimate review, where we compared the two versions of this set. Chromebook support will come in the second half of 2016.In 2016, LEGO Education launched the WeDo 2.0 Core Set. The WeDo 2.0 kits are now available in the US and UK for Android and iOS smartphones and tablets, PCs and Macs. The STEM lessons are extra, but Lego Education will apparently offer a site-wide license. Like the consumer products, the educational kits are not cheap, running around $2,000 per classroom. For instance, kids get lessons about recycling by designing a truck, and even learn about biology and pollination, though we're not sure how they pull that off with Lego bricks. According to Techcrunch, Lego has has developed a curriculum with over 40 hours of science lessons normally taught in fourth grade. ![]() On top of robotics, the next-gen WeDo Kit also teaches kids STEM basics via various science projects. The whole thing is driven by a tablet-based drag-and-drop interface that helps kids code basic robotics apps. The new kit also replaces the old USB cables with a Bluetooth LE hub that connects to the motors and tilt sensors. As before, it's designed to teach kids the basics of robotics, thanks to the Mindstorm-like sets. ![]() Lego Education has revealed the WeDo 2.0 robotics kit aimed at elementary school students, over eight years after launching the original WeDo. You may not have been able to play with Lego in school, but your kids can. ![]()
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