Global Chess Challenge and Mars Space Mission postponed I am sitting here writing this while Auckland, the city where I am right now, is in a stricter lockdown than the rest of New Zealand. Every country is trying to move on from this virus and learning to live with it. Some countries are opening up, …
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Does Maths improve your Chess game? Further to our other blog post about the math lesson on Kai’s Clan, we also want to highlight the relevance between maths and playing chess. Research shows that there is a strong correlation between chess and math scores, and a higher improvement in math in the experimental group compared …
Code a Kai Robot in a Linear Function Graph – Maths for College students First off, we would like to congratulate Andrei Nasushnyi, a great STEAM ambassador for Kai’s Clan, who has just been named by Ozobot as August’s Educator of the month. Well done! ‘Andrei Nasushnyi is an enthusiastic and motivated English and STEM …
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joins Minecraft and Tinkercad in creating Robot Avatars Learning at School and at Home Bringing Arts into STEAM has opened up the world of creativity for all students. Every day millions of kids play Minecraft or use Tinkercad for their latest designs, with both platforms allowing students to upload their creations to Kai’s Clan. Now, …
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3.2.1…Countdown to Kai’s Space Mission After an amazing holiday in Queenstown flying through the trees on the Zipline, a helicopter ride to the top of the Remarkables, a Shark boat jump, and my daughter doing a bungee jump, I do wonder how it will feel to be in a real rocket being launched into space. …
Happy Holiday! How much holiday do teachers get? Most teachers get 13 weeks of annual leave, however, their pay is not calculated pro-rata, nor is it stretched across the year; they are getting paid all year round. Because of this, some people may feel that teachers have way too much holiday. What do you think? …
Blockchain is working in Education What is Blockchain? Everybody is talking about bitcoin, blockchain, and dogecoin. Today we were testing some robots and even the students at Sunnyhills Primary School all knew about these currencies. Investopedia explains Blockchain as a type of database. A database is a collection of information that is stored electronically on …
Why solving puzzles and mazes helps with a growth mindset. Business photo created by freepik – www.freepik.com Mazes! From early childhood, I can remember going into the mirror maze at the Easter Show in my hometown. Although it was scary, I couldn’t help myself, the determination of running around finding the exit was exhilarating. I …
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Pensive thoughts on individuality… We are all different and we celebrate being different. However, at the same time, we also like putting labels on people. I’m a tall woman, so often people will ask “How tall are you?” as if that is the only quantifier to my being. Similarly, I played competitive netball when I …
Gen Z and Competition Since I (baby boomer) started playing netball when I was 5 years old in South Africa I always had a competitive streak in me. However that only meant I practised harder. I remember in high school I started shooting 100 goals a day and at University I challenged myself to shoot …
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