{"id":819,"date":"2019-09-24T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/education\/blog\/2019\/09\/24\/partner-spotlight-collaboration-with-kano-produces-new-device-helps-develop-future-ready-skills-in-students\/"},"modified":"2019-09-24T09:00:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T16:00:18","slug":"partner-spotlight-collaboration-with-kano-produces-new-device-helps-develop-future-ready-skills-in-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/education\/blog\/2019\/09\/partner-spotlight-collaboration-with-kano-produces-new-device-helps-develop-future-ready-skills-in-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Partner Spotlight: Collaboration with Kano produces new device; helps develop future-ready skills in students"},"content":{"rendered":"

At this year\u2019s ISTE conference in Philadelphia, we proudly featured several of our partners in the Microsoft Education booth. These are organizations that share our mission of working to empower every student on the planet to achieve more. We\u2019re highlighting some of those collaborations <\/em>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

On a typical day, a visitor to Allen Tsui\u2019s classroom at Willow Brook Primary School Academy in East London might see students ages 9 to 11 taking computers apart and putting them back together, writing lines of code, or using laptops with bright orange keyboards to complete core academic assignments.<\/p>\n

Tsui and his students have been among the first to use the new Kano PC<\/strong><\/a>\u2014a build-it-yourself touchscreen computer kit, powered by Windows 10 in S Mode. It was created in collaboration between London-based Kano, which makes creative coding and computing kits for beginners of all ages, and Microsoft Education.<\/p>\n

Each kit comes with a step-by-step storybook which guides students through the build and a magnifying lens to help them see the components\u2014important tools in Kano\u2019s quest to demystify technology and empower students to think like computer scientists. \u201cThis is giving them that exposure to physical computing,\u201d says Tsui. \u201cIt\u2019s giving children the chance to handle components and put them together and understand how the components interact with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, the learning doesn\u2019t stop there. After students assemble their Kano PC, they can use it to code. Tsui is among the educators who worked with Kano and Microsoft Education to develop hundreds of hours of highly accessible curriculum materials that teachers can use along with the Kano PC to introduce computer science to students in an engaging way.<\/p>\n

Tsui\u2019s students are enthusiastic about coding with Kano, and he says it\u2019s fostering collaboration in the classroom. \u201cWhen one student conquers one of the basic coding tasks, they get inspired to do more, and they share that block of coding with one of their friends,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Tsui says bringing the devices and related curriculum into his class has helped develop a broad set of future-ready skills in students. \u201cThe whole process of coding fosters resiliency, such as when students have to debug lines of code, for example. That stretches their interpersonal skills, and it\u2019s a real test of stamina and resilience,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

The Kano PC runs on Windows 10 in S mode and comes with a suite of creative coding tools, including Kano Code and Make Art, and is compatible with the Office Suite, Minecraft: Education Edition<\/strong><\/a>, Microsoft Teams<\/strong><\/a> and more.<\/p>\n

The device is attracting a buzz. It recently topped Wired\u2019s list<\/strong><\/a> of the best computers for introducing kids to computer science. It will also be featured in an upcoming episode on the \u201cWhat\u2019s inside?\u201d<\/strong><\/a> YouTube channel. The episode will explore what\u2019s inside a vintage Toshiba laptop and compare it with what\u2019s inside a Kano PC.<\/p>\n

For more on our work together and this exciting new tool for students, check out the video above in which Allen Tsui and some of our friends at Kano share more details.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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