GoGo Board Toolkit

The GoGo Board toolkit is comprised of four main objects:

1. Adult Guidebook (printed and/or digital) are for parents, teachers, or caregivers as an introductory guide to GoGo board, as well as some suggestions of how GoGo board can be taught to their children or students. The guidebook introduces the following topics: (1) Introduction to GoGo Board, (2) Coding with GoGo Board, (3) Guideline and ideas to facilitate children learning and making process in constructionist manner. The guidebook comes with Program Control Mats and a deck of function cards, sensor cards, and actuator cards that would teach children about each input and output in a fun and experimental manner.

Download Adult Guidebook HERE

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GoGo Sensor and Actuator Cards

Program Control Mat

2. “Tommy and the Inventor” storybook (printed and/or digital) for adults to read out loud to children. The book helps children to understand different kind of sensors by inviting them to help the main character by choosing the right sensors. At the end of the book, children are encouraged to write their own stories. See how it works HERE

3. “I am an Inventor: Family Edition,” or a creator storybook (printed) guides the children to invent for people in their families. It’s a combination of: (1) story book, (2) drawing and coloring book, and (3) basic guidelines for using GoGo Board. It allows the children to personalize their inventions and ask them to write problem statements to solve the given problems. The book encourages children to start programming with GoGo Board, create prototypes of automatic devices, and test their inventions out. Adult guidance is highly encouraged.

Download “I am an Inventor: Family Edition” HERE

4. Blank book (printed and/or digital) for the children to create their own narratives. Children can write, draw, or animate original stories from their own experience, imagination, or even stories from others. The stories must include the problem that they want to solve. Then they will build automatic devices using GoGo Board to solve the particular problems.

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1. Learning Goals
   1. The ability to understand basic functions of the GoGo Board and start programming and tinkering with it.
   2. The ability to initiate creative and meaningful physical computing projects of their own using resources that are available to them and the GoGo Board. My hope is to see the inventions that children can continually surprise themselves and people around them. Within the process of designing and coming up with tangible products to solve the problems that interest them, the children need to tinker, encounter obstacles, make mistakes, and experience disappointing results. Being able to persevere, manage frustration, think creatively and work with others are valuable skills that can be generated through making with GoGo Board.
   3. The ability to see the problem and figure out how to solve it in a structural and logical manner. Inspired by Papert’s Mindstorms (1993) the design believes that kids learn most effectively when they try to solve problems where they are genuinely interested in the outcome of the problem.
   4. Engaging in constructive social and emotional interactions especially in compassion and empathy in the narratives. Moreover, the process of making can be a social experience that children learn to interact and work with others with respect.

   The learning goal for the adults:

   1. Be able to gain confidence in technology to the level that they can facilitate the children to use GoGo Board.