Thanks for the generous support of BBC micro:bit Foundation, in the framework of the KIDS INSPIRING KIDS IN STEAM project, Experience Workshop’s Finnish and Hungarian division have received a great number of BBC micro:bits, which will hopefully inspire a new generation to start coding. If you are interested to have Experience Workshop’s BBC micro:bit program started in your school in Finland or in Hungary, please contact us at info@experienceworkshop.org

The micro:bit itself is a small circuit board, which kids can program via a web-based interface to do many things, including flashing up numbers, letters and scrolling messages on the LEDs. Plus, since there’s a built-in accelerometer and compass, it can detect movement and tell which way it’s pointing.

You can use your BBC micro:bit for all sorts of cool creations, from robots to musical instruments – the possibilities are endless. This little device has an awful lot of features, like 25 red LED lights that can flash messages. There are two programmable buttons that can be used to control games or pause and skip songs on a playlist. Your BBC micro:bit can detect motion and tell you which direction you’re heading in, and it can use a low energy Bluetooth connection to interact with other devices and the Internet – clever!

The micro:bit is an educational and creative tool to inspire a new generation of young people. It can be used across the curriculum, not just in STEM subjects. It can help give young people the knowledge and skills to move from being consumers of digital information, to being designers and creators of new tools to enhance learning, to solve problems or just to have fun, enabling them to make the most of 21st Century life and the economy.

Experience Workshop Student Teams’ first projects from Finland:

Joonatan Kuosmanen’s BBC micro:bit chess clock invention (Jyväskylä Christian School, Finland) 

Teemu Koivisto’s digital dice (Jyväskylä Christian School, Finland)

Links:

BBC micro:bit homepage

BBC micro:bit homepage in Finnish

KIKS Micro:bit collaboration wiki

Materials:

Family guide to micro-bit

First steps with microbits for control and physical computing

Cross-curricular STEM activities with microbits

Bloodhounds and micro-bits

Credits:

Thanks to Adrian Oldknow, Tony Houghton, Philip Meitner, Philip Moffitt, Ákos Vecsei, Jukka Sinnemäki, Merja Sinnemäki, Leena Kuorikoski, Mirka Havinga, BBC micro:bit Foundation and Kitronik for making this happen!

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Can mathematics be playful, can it be fun? Can mathematics be artistic, creative, amazing and magical, even for those who do not think it is the most inspiring class at school? 

Experience Workshop is organizing creative school days / mathematics & art education programs for all ages / multidisciplinary festivals of learning and creativity / family days / interactive exhibitions / workshops / seminars and trainings in Finland, Hungary and all over the globe.

Take a glimpse into our exciting world!

Members of the Experience Workshop community, including artists, scholars and educators prepare interesting problem-solving activities, games, workshops, interactive demonstrations and presentations to provide the opportunity for everyone to enjoy a multidisciplinary learning module in the school or a cultural event in a festival.

An amazing addition to our activities is Experience Workshop’s ‘Traveling Bridges’ Exhibit. More details:

The “Traveling Bridges” Exhibition: invite Experience Workshop’s International Collection of Mathematical Art to your school in Finland!

If you are interested to have Experience Workshop in your program or institution, please contact us at info@experienceworkshop.org

INTERDISCIPLINARY AESTHETICS (NOT ONLY) FOR CHILDREN!

Let’s take a trip into our mathemaGical universe:

Experience Workshop’s International Travelling Exhibition of Mathematical Art is located in Finland and ready to visit you. The collection includes artworks, scientific modelling tools, math-art puzzles, and other spectacular objects.

If you are interested to have Experience Workshop’s Travelling Exhibit in your program or institution, please contact us at info@experienceworkshop.org

More details on the collection:

The “Traveling Bridges” Exhibition: invite Experience Workshop’s International Collection of Mathematical Art to your school in Finland!

Our international research team’s interests involve, but not limited to

• STEM and STEAM education
• education tool development
• inquiry-based, cooperative, playful and experience-oriented mathematics education
• girls in mathematics, science and coding
• problem-solving in science, art and design learning
• connecting hands-on activities and digital modeling in the learning process
• phenomenon-based learning and co-teaching
• multidisciplinary learning
• inter-, cross- and transdisciplinary management and trans-curricular leadership in education

Contact us if you think we can help to achieve your goals: info@experienceworkshop.org

A small selection of our publications:

‘Adventures On Paper! Math-Art Activities for Experience-centered Education of Mathematics′. The collection is edited by Kristóf Fenyvesi, Ilona Oláhné Téglási and Ibolya Prokajné Szilágyi and published by the Eszterházy Károly College, Eger, 2014. CLICK ON THE IMAGE AND DOWNLOAD IT FOR FREE!

Experience Workshop has a lot of experience in contributing to international research and education projects and providing scientific and practical support in various fields of STEM, STEAM and art&science education, leadership and management.

If we can help you in putting together a successful project proposal, please let us know: info@experienceworkshop.org 

Some of our on-going and past projects:

The Building Blocks of Visual Perception: Jomili Cubes Indiegogo Campaign Starts Now!

“A real child can go to bed–yet still build towers in its head.” – wrote Marvin Minsky, the father of Artificial Intelligence, who has started to train his robot arm by block playing in the end of the 1960s. Just some years before Minsky’s experiments, Zoltán Paul Dienes has published his book “Building Up Mathematics” (1961) and suggested his mathematical block set to reform mathematics learning… Now, Jomili Cubes are here to change the game and to link arts and mathematics, aesthetics and logic, learning and creativity on a simply surprising way. Support Jomili Cubes on Indiegogo, the campaign starts now!

Jomili Experience Workshop at Bridges Seoul 2014, Korea. Photos: Kristóf Fenyvesi.

Experience Workshop is using Jomili blocks worldwide right from the beginning, when the prototypes of the game has became available for classroom use. During our many years of successful experiments, we became convinced about the outstanding qualities and potentials of this “simply complex” system. Now, Experience Workshop is proud to manage Jomili Learning to take care about the educational research and development in the Jomili team.

More about Experience Workshop’s Jomili Learning program: http://www.jomilicubes.eu/about.html

You can support Jomili Learning by supporting JomiliCubes Indiegogo campaign here: http://www.jomilicubes.eu/