5 STEAM Educators We’re Thanking For Teacher Appreciation Week

Today marks the start of Teacher Appreciation Week, seven days to thank the awesome educators in our lives. At Ozobot, one way we’re saying thank you is with savings on our Classroom Kits. Now through May 11, Evo and Bit Classroom Kits start at just $999 (shop kits here). Throughout history, many people thanked teachers […]

27 Tech Tools Teachers Can Use to Inspire Classroom Creativity

Students who grow up with a love of learning are more likely to stay engaged in STEAM subjects and other lessons as they grow older. They won’t take what they learn at face value, and will instead seek out ways to expand their knowledge and ask questions about what they learn. Teachers are always looking […]

Our Deconstruction Method: A New Way to Advance All Kids in Coding

With robots, coding comes alive. You only need a few coding concepts under your belt to teach Evo and Bit how to see, play, and explore with OzoBlockly, our block-based code editor. But, for many educators and students, advanced coding looks daunting. In a recent Pew survey, over half of Americans cited difficulty as the […]

FETC 2018 Recap: Creativity, Coding, and Kits. Oh My!

If you missed Ozobot at the 38th annual Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC), fret not. We’re breaking it all down for you. Sir Ken Robinson kicked off the conference, expanding on his popular TED Talk “Do Schools Kill Creativity?”. Instead of using testing to encourage competition and conformity, Robinson argued, we should use new […]

14 STEAM Classroom Activities to Celebrate Black History Month

STEAM is based on the idea that all subjects connect as one. Students can’t learn engineering without embracing critical thinking, art, creativity, and reading. This same concept applies to other subjects: just because something is related to history doesn’t mean it’s not relevant to the arts, sciences, and technology. February is a great time to […]