{"id":573,"date":"2020-09-05T09:35:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T16:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/?p=573"},"modified":"2020-09-05T09:35:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T16:35:34","slug":"mover-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2020\/09\/05\/mover-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Mover Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Originally posted by MET student Erin Howard on 31\/05\/2017<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Kickstarter campaign promises to get kids moving, building and coding through a programmable wearable. The parents who give the video pitch say they were looking for something that would not only inspire their kids to move, but also to learn computational skills and to code. Could this be something that is integrated into a school maker spaces? Physical education programs? Science and technology classes? The product retails at approximately $55 and is for all kids ages 8 and up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many Maker kits focus on the STEM side of things, but could this product have an edge bringing kinesthetic learning&nbsp;into the equation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-kickstarter wp-block-embed-kickstarter wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/techwillsaveus\/mover-kit-the-first-active-wearable-that-kids-make?ref=tag\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted by MET student Erin Howard on 31\/05\/2017 This Kickstarter campaign promises to get kids moving, building and coding through a programmable wearable. The&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2020\/09\/05\/mover-kit\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mover Kit<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pitch-pool","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}