Partner Spotlight: Sphero Microsoft Support helps teachers bring real-world lessons to the classroom

At this year’s ISTE conference in Philadelphia, we proudly featured several of our partners in the Microsoft Education booth. These are microsoft support number organizations that share our mission of working to empower every student on the planet to achieve more. Throughout the summer and into the fall, we’ll be highlighting some of those collaborations here. Read more…

On certain days of the school year, Lauren Marrone’s high school physics class transforms when students turn their microsoft support phone number self-programmed, ball-shaped robots into boats using materials like hot glue, Styrofoam and popsicle sticks. The teens from Dallas, Ga., then drop their creations in a makeshift pool and race them. Fun and games? Perhaps, but Marrone says her students are also learning about buoyancy, forces and motion with the help of Sphero, the creator of programmable robots and educational tools. Read more…

“They’re learning key scientific principles, coding, designing and engineering, and they love it,” says Marrone, who helped educators try out the robots in the microsoft support phone number booth at ISTE. Read more…

Students program and control the robots using a Sphero app available in the  Microsoft Support Phone Number Store for Education. Recently added is the capacity to link Sphero with Excel Data Streamer, a Microsoft Excel add-in that provides students with a simple way to bring data from the physical world into and out of Excel. The update means students can capture, visualize and analyze real-time sensor data in Excel spreadsheets. Read more…

“I’m always trying to help my students analyze data and improve their critical thinking. Microsoft support phone number this helps. Now when they design something, we can bring in this data to support their claims,” says Marrone. Read more…

But Gomez said that the biggest benefit to this hands-on approach to STEM learning is the way kids light up when they use Sphero in the classroom. “The level of engagement is through the roof,” she said. Read more…

At Microsoft, we’re committed to making sure all students achieve more. And, as a partner, Sphero supports this mission by helping foster creativity, collaboration, computational-thinking and problem-solving in young people. The Sphero team also supports teachers by sharing STEM learning activities and lesson plans with them and microsoft support phone number is coming out soon with a supplemental curriculum, Computer Science Foundations. Read more…

It’s precisely the kind of student-centered learning we want for all young people. To learn more, check out the video above from our booth at Microsoft support ISTE. Read more…