Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 5:52 PM
BQ and Macmillan Education have been merged to create a digital platform to learn robotics and programming in the classroom called Bmaker. An initiative aimed at Spanish schools and academies.
“He 65% of the basic students will have work that still does not exist In sectors that we don’t even imagine, according to the World Economic Forum. However, they continue to learn technology 30 years ago. Our goal is to replace that methodology with one that prepares them for the Society of the Future, ”says Alberto Valero, director of BQ Education.
In Bmaker, students from 8 to 15 years old work these courses with an innovative Active learning methodology, cooperative And based on projects via an online platform and with robotics kits adapted by age.
In every project, students start a challenge that should be resolved as a team. Experimenting with hardware and software, they go from users to technological makers while developing essential skills in their personal and future work development such as problem solving, teamwork or emotional intelligence. Moreover, BMaker is based on Steam philosophy, which encourages the creative and artistic development of children.
The goal of BQ and Macmillan is Students facilitate access and learn to program and roboticsOffering schools the tools they need to include them in the simplest and most complete way in their educational project. That is why BMaker is accessible, flexible and contains all the hardware and software that the center must give to give these topics.
Moreover, DOcentes has management tools From the classroom that helps them in their daily work and enable them to lead, manage and correct the activities of the students.
