Previously, their 20-year collaboration resulted in the highly successful LEGO Mindstorms robotics kit for children aged 11+. LEGO Education WeDo is the result of the collaboration between Mitchel Resnick, head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at MIT Media Lab, and Erik Hansen, head of the Electronics R&D department of The LEGO Group. Coding blocks of LEGO WeDo 2.0 Software.We hope you will find this review helpful. To help you navigate through it all we prepared a table of contents so you can jump to the section that interests you.

By doing so, we have gathered plenty of information, so this article is quite extensive. We have worked with the sets in classrooms, designed several new robot models, performed tests on the new electronic components and used the new software on different devices with different operating systems. Our team of dedicated educators, robot designers and curriculum developers has worked with the new sets for several weeks now, so we can discuss it all and help you make an informed decision. How different is LEGO® Education WeDo 2.0 (45300) from what we are used to with WeDo 1.0 (9580)? Which one is better for the classroom or for homeschooling? Is it time to upgrade? In 2016, LEGO Education launched a new version of its WeDo™ robotics set. Design and development for WeDo 2.0, as well as teaching both children and adults using this set has been pure pleasure for the last couple of years. And that's no exaggeration.Įven in RoboCamp team, this set has been one of our favorites for years. On the dynamic market of educational tools for programming and robotics, where at least a dozen new interesting products are launched every year, WeDo 2.0 remains the unparallelled champion. The set is child-friendly, well prepared for learning at school, and has an unbeatable price to possibilities ratio. Today, after almost 5 years working with this set, we state with confidence that WeDo 2.0 is the best set for teaching kids robotics created by LEGO Education.įrom the teacher's perspective, there's just no better educational tool. Several months later, we published the original ultimate review, where we compared the two versions of this set. In 2016, LEGO Education launched the WeDo 2.0 Core Set.

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