Sensing Our World
Event: ICERI2017
Session time: Friday, 17th of November from 12:15 to 13:45 (UTC+01:00)
Session type: INTERACTIVE
Room: Andalucia 8
Session chair: Mairi Macintyre. University of Warwick (UNITED KINGDOM)

The Internet of Things offers a whole new area of opportunity interacting with the world that we live in yet despite affordability, ease-of-use and accessibility, many of us still shy away from playing with technology. Using a playful approach this workshop enables participants to create something simple with cardboard, buttons, and ‘bits’ to ‘build your own computer interface’ (via the sensor board) – to control something in Scratch. By familiarity and overcoming fear of making mistakes educators can lead from the front and enable by example.