MiRo is an autonomous and advanced robotic platform for research purposes and educational advantages. MiRo Robotics & Technology enables you to imagine the unimaginable and create socially engaging classroom experiences making learning a fun activity for every student. It is conceived to mimic friendly domestic animal-like behavior while serving as a highly specified, low-cost, flexible, easily programmable AI robotic platform for both researchers and students. If you want to create a collaborative and diverse classroom experience for everyone and anyone to get involved and learn, MiRo-E is the answer.

After enormous research and the incredible success of the developer version, MiRo-E is now available to schools all across the Middle East, especially Dubai, UAE.

MiRo is the first robot in a development program that intends to accelerate companion and social robotics research progress. It also aims to promote public engagement with robots, especially students, from the bottom up.

Why Is MiRo-E Suitable for Classrooms?

MiRo-E has powerful hardware optimized with 8-10 degrees of freedom, Bluetooth/Wi-Fi connectivity, and a wide sensor array. It renders unparalleled interaction with students within the classroom environment.

MiRo-E has a unique user-friendly interface that allows students to test their code on a simulated MiRo. Unlike other educational robots, MiRo-E’s engaging pet-like appearance immediately stimulates students’ imaginations. Colleges and universities across GCC have started using MiRo as a platform to teach STEM subjects, particularly digital technology and computing. It helps students code and implements creative ideas through a well-balanced multi-level learning experience.

What Does MiRo-E Do?

With six senses, an ingenious brain-inspired OS, and a simulation software package, MiRo-E is programmed to interact with humans using sound, light, and behavior. MiRo-E likes to be stroked and responds to sounds. It can also see everything around and likes movement. Above all, MiRo-E can be easily programmed to do much more.

What Else Is MiRo-E Useful for?

Multiple colleges and universities across UAE are using MiRo-E for assisting with:

• Special Educational Needs (SEN) in adults and children
• Sophisticated research into hacking robots or performing custom programming

Recommended Age Group to Use MiRo-E

• MiRo-E can be used as a classroom pet in early school learning in the pastoral care model, enabling a journey of healing and wholeness among students. It can help support students younger than 7 years, in their natural progression and facilitates the development of their social skills, self-esteem, and ability to cope with stress.
• The simple-to-grasp MiRoSim interface can be used for teaching primary school students ranging from 7 years to 11 years of age.
• In secondary schools, MiRo-E is used to learn to write and implement programs using C++, Blockly, and Python programming languages by kids older than 11 years of age.

Schools and colleges across UAE encourage students below age 7 to interact primarily with the physical MiRo-E while older students utilize the MiRo educational interface for an incredible learning experience by practicing robotic coding and exploring complex research and behaviors. 

MiRo-E’s Key Highlights

• Exhibits pet-like behavior and is ready to work straight out of the box in demonstration mode.
• Flexible enough to be used in primary school and high-level research labs.
• MiRo-E is engineered for educational purposes, especially learning robotic coding from basics to a high level.
• Browser-based Gazebo App allows simulating MiRo’s behavior on screen, reducing the need of having more than one MiRo per classroom since the whole class can work on programming.
• Friendly and emotionally engaging personality
• Imitates a small pet’s behavior using state-of-the-art Biomimetic AI technology by responding to sounds, wagging its tail and moving its ears when stroked.
• Possess a powerful Raspberry Pi B 3+ processor
• Fully programmable, upgradeable, and serviceable
• Communicates using Bluetooth/Wi-Fi/USB

MiRo-E’s is an engaging, pet-like educational robot that stands out from the crowd and stimulates students’ imaginations, helping them learn how to code, transform their imaginative ideas through the highly featured platform into reality.

Educational institutions across the Middle East, especially in Dubai, UAE are using MiRo-E as an excellent robotic device for any level of education, starting from early school learning to University.

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School is one of the first public places that a kid visits regularly. Communication is the key anywhere and at any place.
To improve, enhance and encourage communication skills, schools have School Radio. School Radio is a medium to ease communication among students of different age groups and levels.

School Radio:

Most schools in GCC, Dubai, UAE, and the Middle East introduce innovative ways to impart learning and communication skills to their students. Students are also eager to adopt technology-based ways rather than old ways.
International schools in GCC, Dubai, UAE, and the Middle East boost confidence in their students by employing different techniques. One such way is through School Radio. It makes it hassle-free for the teachers, students, and parents/guardians to stay on the same page regarding school activities and performance.

If you want to help students build confidence and improve their communication skills, you need to up your game and introduce School Radio.

Opportunity:

It is a great initiative by the school for the students. It will help raise confident and well-spoken individuals. With the world’s pace, the kids need to be multi-talented. It is just one step closer to giving them more character, expertise, and a new skill.

This talent-based activity is by the students, and for the students. 

The UAE is one of the growing hubs for multiple arenas globally, and schools here have a greater responsibility to enable the wards with talent and education.

Possibilities:

When you employ School Radio in your school, you will be empowering your students and even teachers to evolve in a new direction. They would be able to explore new opportunities and areas of interest.

The students, teachers, and even parents in GCC, Dubai, UAE, and the Middle East can benefit. There is a list of activities that can get done on School Radio. The list includes:

• News
• Promotional activities
• Talk Shows
• Drama
• Discussions on issues
• Announcements of competitions
• Announcements of school or student’s achievements
• Music

Benefits:

School Radio has proved to be favorable for all the parties involved to make the school a better learning environment in many different nations.
School Radio has benefits for students as individuals and the school as a community. In the Middle East, a lot of its population is not native. Most of the population in the GCC speaks a different language from the official language.
The benefits to all the parties include:

• Developing skills for speaking as well as listening
• Learning new words
• Gaining knowledge by listening
• Builds confidence
• Teamwork
• Helping kids with learning and writing better
• Empowerment to the students to voice their opinions and even concerns
• Inclusion for kids and students of all levels
• Sense of authority and responsibility to the students
• Gaining extra knowledge apart from the curriculum
• Including topics from the curriculum to reinforce major topics of the syllabi
• Ease of use
• Wider scope of use
• Free resources

School Radio Packages and Products:

There are many packages offered by School Radio to cater to schools of all budgets. There are even starter packages to entertain schools with a tight budget.

The products or devices that would come with the School Radio are:
• 2 microphones
• 19inch screen
• Built-in USB myriad channels
• 1 VoIP live channel (Skype)
• Mic Live
• Mini-tower with 4GB Ram, Intel G3 Processor, 1TB hard drive
• Wireless keyboard and mouse
• Windows 10 Pro OS

School Radio is a great opportunity for students and will prove a great investment with multiple benefits.

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One of the most important topics for early Math learners is to identify the order of numbers and correctly arrange them from small to big and big to small. Ordering is basically arranging numbers in a sequence where the successive number either gets larger or smaller, depending upon the equation.

Ascending Order

When a set of numbers are arranged from smallest to largest, those numbers are said to be in ascending order.
Explain to children that ascending means ‘moving up’. When you climb a mountain or stairs, you move in upward direction, this is termed as an ascend. Thus, ascending order is denoted by an upward arrow sign.

Descending Order

When numbers are arranged from largest to smallest, it is said to be in descending order.
When you move from top to bottom or when you walk down the mountain, you are essentially descending. Thus, descending order is denoted by a downward arrow sign.

Examples of Equations for Ascending Order

#1 Arrange the numbers in ascending order – when the numbers follow a particular sequence.
3, 4, 2, 1, 5
Answer: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,

#2 Arrange numbers in ascending order where the starting digit is not 1.
7,9,10,8
Answer: 7, 8, 9,10

#3 Arrange the following random numbers in ascending order from 7 to 13 – when the numbers do not follow a continuous sequence. Numbers that are not next to each other on a number line.
10, 13, 9, 7
Answer: 7, 9, 10, 13

#4 Arrange the following 5 times table in ascending order.
15, 10, 30, 45
Answer: 10, 15, 30, 45

Examples of Equations for Descending Order

#1 Arrange the numbers in descending order – when the numbers follow a particular sequence.
2, 3, 5, 4, 1
Answer: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

#2 Arrange numbers in descending order where the starting digit is not 1.
3, 2, 5, 4
Answer: 2, 3, 4, 5

#3 Arrange the following random numbers in descending order from 25 to 10 – when the numbers do not follow a continuous sequence. Numbers that are not next to each other on a number line.
23, 17, 10, 25
Answer: 25, 23, 17, 10

#4 Arrange the following 8 times table in descending order.
16, 32, 64, 40
Answer: 64, 40, 32, 16

Pre-learning strategies before Introducing the Concept of Ascending & Descending

Directly exposing children to Mathematical terms such as ‘ascending’ and ‘descending’ can get a little intimidating. So, to warm them up and informally share the idea with your kids, here are some activities you can practice;

• Keep 4 to 5 balls of different sizes and ask your child to arrange them in order i.e.; from smallest to largest and then largest to smallest.
• Take 4 to 5 bottles of different heights and then encourage the learner to place the bottles in height-wise order starting with the shortest and proceeding to the tallest, and vice versa.
• Introduce objects of different weights. Then let your child pick up the object and estimate which one is the heaviest and which is lighter, and the lightest.
• Assign each child with a number from 1 to 5 or 15 to 20, and let them figure how to stand orderly in a row from lowest to the highest number and highest to lowest.
• Play a relay race, where children have to pass on the baton to the person wearing the jersey of the next number. Example, number 1 jersey passes on the baton to the participant with number 2 jersey.

Mathseeds is an excellent Math based platform available in the UAE, across Dubai and other Middle East countries. Mathseeds targets children between ages 3 years to 9 years and contributes in establishing a sound fundamental base for kids to learn important math concepts. The lessons are structured systematically and the level of difficulty advances gradually, depending on the learning capabilities of the school goers.
If you stay in GCC or other Middle Eastern country, and wish to introduce ascending and descending order concepts to your learners in a fun and simplistic manner, you can subscribe to the Mathseeds app, by learning more about it here: https://knowledge-hub.com/mathseeds/

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The Internet is ruling our lives today, and we use the net for just about everything. A study done in 2020 suggests that a person spends on an average 2 hours and 25 minutes daily on the internet browsing through websites, social media platforms, and using the search engine.

Children shouldn’t be introduced to the internet before the age of 8 years. Parents need to lay down certain guidelines and continuously monitor the child’s activities until they are responsible enough to know what’s right for them.

Education Institutes in Dubai and other Middle Eastern countries take the help of the TechnoInternet Curriculum by TechnoKids to promote responsible digital citizenship and introduce junior graders to the world of the Internet. The topics covered hereunder are as follows;

1. Developing Search Strategies

Search engines have a massive pool of information and they search through 625 million websites to provide you with appropriate content. The most popular search engines are Google®, Bing®, and Yahoo®. Search strategies include –

• Use Correct Keywords:

The keywords that you input lead to the search results, and hence keywords entered should be very specific. For example, if you are looking for ‘headphones’ online, then only by typing ‘headphones’ may lead you to many pages and all different sorts of products. By mentioning the specifications ‘Bluetooth headphones white color’ you will get the exact option that you needed.

• Eliminating Any unwanted Elements:

When you search a ‘word’ or a ‘phrase’ there are chances you might use punctuation marks like ( – ) hyphen, ( ; ) semicolon, or apostrophe ( ‘ ) which may cause the search query to not be properly interpreted and thereby leading to an erroneous result.

2. Collecting Bookmarks

After reading a particular webpage on the net you would close it without realizing that it could come in handy to you the next time. Bookmarking a URL makes it easy to re-visit the page later on. Students are taught the steps to bookmark a page and then learn how to reference it to revisit later, from the toolbar at the top.

3. Check the Authenticity of the Website

The rampant amount of Internet frauds and scams are making it increasingly unsafe for users, especially children to browse the net, without taking precautions. Students are introduced to different ways by which they can identify which sites are genuine. Here are some tips to gain confidence about the authenticity of websites;

• Usually, HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure), is an indication that the site is secure.
• View the digital certificate by clicking on the address bar and selecting the certificate section.
• Visit the brand’s social media sites to further cross-verify, how genuine the brand is.

4. Following Safe Practices

Millions of people fall prey to cybercrime and hence basic safety etiquette needs to be practiced, such as; 

• Setting strong passwords on websites 
• Not sharing your personal details on any suspicious web link or landing page 
• Do not fill important forms on public WiFi networks 
• Avoid saving credit/debit card details on Payment Gateway sites 

All the above topics are discussed with children via games and activities to make the learning process interactive & fun, instead of referring to a computer textbook. TechnoInternet is therefore driving fundamentals of correct internet usage amongst learners across schools in GCC Countries and the UAE, to raise a generation of prudent net users. 

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Learning undoubtedly begins at home. At any stage of one’s life, a person can definitely receive elementary learning at home. In the case of toddlers and pre-schoolers, home is their first base and a very crucial one indeed. It is where they take their baby steps to understand the little and the larger things in life. When they have a strong background that nurtures them holistically, they will find it easier to deal with the complexities thrown at them later in school and at the world at large.

Parents or guardians are the best teachers. The learning that encompasses love, affection, and personal touch, that a child receives from a parent is incomparable. School and higher education are inevitable in this fast-paced modern competitive world whether you reside in Dubai, in a GCC country, or any place across the globe, but the learning that one gets at home paves the way to get to a level that one desires. Today you may be in the UAE or the Middle East and tomorrow you could be fulfilling your dreams anywhere in the world.

Talking about Phonics, yes, there are a ton of courses available outside where parents can enroll their children but like we said, learning at home is super important. Even for parents to be able to impart this knowledge, whether it is Phonics or any other topic, it is not mandatory for them to be knowing it all or get themselves enrolled in a class in order to teach their children.

Phonics is the initial step for children to learn to read and write. It is about the sounds that are created that help them understand the basic words. Phonics helps the child know which letters to precisely use when writing any word. The English language is a tad complicated and the alphabets are symbols that represent speech sounds. A particular letter or a combination of certain letters represents a single sound in the English spoken language. Individual speech sounds are called “phonemes” and the written symbols that represent those sounds are called “phonograms”.

A “phonogram” can be a single letter or a combination of letters. For example, when we say the word “dog” and then write it on paper, the speech sound /d/ is represented by the letter “d”, the speech sound /o/ is represented by the letter “o” and the speech sound /g/ is represented by the letter “g”. It gets easy to read the word “dog” when one knows the sound that each letter represents. 

There are 26 alphabets in the English language from A-Z. Why we say it is complicated since there are more “phonemes” beyond the 26 alphabets or letters of the English language. There are approximately 44 various speech sounds and about 70 “phonograms”. With Phonics, your preschooler and kindergartner will slowly learn the relationship between sounds and letters and will develop the strategies to sound out words, and eventually they will be able to do it quickly without any hassle or stumbling over words. Below are some ideas and activities that you can engage with your children at home to get them started with Phonics.

• Get them to adapt to listening sounds around them, they should try to copy those sounds and then try and remember who makes what kind of sound.
• Motivate them as per their liking and hobbies they love. For E.g., If they like birds, animals, nature sounds, vehicle sounds then boost them to make similar sounds.
• Get them to break up the spoken words and split the word into separate sounds. For E.g., C-a-t makes Cat.
• Let children spot rhyming words in a nursery rhyme.
• They could also learn to tap and clap as per the rhythm.
• You must read-aloud storybooks with them and then ask them to sound out the words and help them wherever they struggle.
• Have fun playing games that have picture cards. That way they are learning more about different objects, their images, words, spellings, and sounds.
• Out of home, whenever you’re stepping out with children ask them to observe the neighborhood, surroundings, and frequently visit places like malls, supermarkets, parks, railway stations, airports. Get them to recognize, memorize and spell and speak out words of the signs on the boards of these places.

“Reading Eggs” has a wonderful Phonics program that will nurture confidence in your child from the very beginning. It is highly engaging and motivating since it focuses on a core reading curriculum of phonics and sight words. In addition, the program also builds vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. It comprises highly structured, systematic, and sequential skills-based lessons and activities that match an individual letter, or letter combination, with its appropriate sound. It teaches children to blend sounds all the way through a word in order to read it, as well as how to spell it through interactive games. Watch your child embark on their journey to becoming a confident lifelong reader.

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