Google Introduces ‘Project Bloks’ to Encourage Kids to Code
Google is passionate about empowering children to create and explore with technology and wants to help teach kids how to code. So they created a Project Blocks a tangible programming and built a working prototype with it.
Google Introduces ‘Project Bloks’ to Encourage Kids to Code
Google is passionate about empowering
children to create and explore with technology and if we talk about
coding then Google wants children to learn the new language for creative
expression. Therefore, Google has unveiled a Project Bloks that helps
them learn to code.
Google wants to create a system for
“tangible programming” that would help Kids develop computational
thinking and it was named as “Project Bloks” Google said in a blog
“we’ve created a system for tangible programming and built a working
prototype with it. We’re sharing our progress before conducting more
research over the summer to inform what comes next.”
Another important factor that encourages
learning is to involve the use of hands. It is the most natural form of
interaction with the environment and our first way of knowing the world
around us. In which the Google said “Children naturally play and learn
by using their hands, building stuff and doing things together. Making
code physical – known as tangible programming – offers a unique way to
combine the way children innately play and learn with computational
thinking”
Project Bloks is an open hardware
platform that gives developers, designers, and testers everything they
need so they can develop physical experiences coding for children.
Google said “The Project Bloks system is made up of three core
components the “Brain Board”, “Base Boards” and “Pucks”. When connected
together they create a set of instructions which can be sent to
connected devices, things like toys or tablets, over wifi or Bluetooth.
Google said that the project is still in
research phase and they are working to build up the project, get more
partners on board and it is expected to become a powerful toy platform
that parents are sure to get to know.
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