Bee-Bot
 

The Bee-Bot hands down has been and continues to "bee" my favorite tech resource for early childhood.  Its simplicity and tactile interface make the Bee-Bot perfect for young learners,  encouraging discovery-based learning. What I like most about the Bee-Bot is that it can easily be integrated across and within the curriculum in a variety of ways.  Students can create sequences of commands and experiment with distance, direction, estimation, and movement, seeing the results in real-time.  With the Bee-Bot as a tool, children learn through exploration.

Seymour Papert's Constructivist learning theory emphasized that children learn best when they can actively engage with their environment, explore, and make their own discoveries. The idea that learning should start with a "blank slate" or an open-ended platform resonates strongly with how tools like Bee-Bot encourage creativity, problem-solving, and exploration and most importantly a tool to think through and engage with while problem solving.

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