CC-BY, provided by author Abstract With the rapidly developing and digitalising world, it has become necessary to carry out some innovation studies in the education system and to raise generations that produce, implement and present projects. The gaming cultures of the generations born in the digital world of...
CC-BY, provided by author Teachers challenged the 10th year students of the Vocational Course of Mechatronics to find solutions to the problems or situations related to their interests. Their objectives were: to know the functioning of the Arduino board and sensors; study the electrical circuit required to connect the...
CC-BY, provided by the author The fourth-grade students of Silla Primary School at the Comprehensive Institute La Giustiniana in Rome had an exciting opportunity to extend their education beyond the regular school term. They participated in a captivating project named “Coding ergo sum”, centred on coding activities. CC-BY The...
Picture provided by the author, attribution CC-BY Does school have to be boring? Do children learn only when they follow the teacher’s instructions? No! EU Code Week is an opportunity to encourage students to learn programming and it is great fun. In addition, students can learn on their own,...
Turkish teachers have been using the “sentence-based sound teaching method” to teach reading and writing since few years now. This method allows teachers to get familiar with new techniques and find a better approach to each of their students. It enables teachers to show students how meaningful the sound is by...
In this article I will tell you about several activities carried out during the Let’s Code Week and some online activities carried out with my students in the past months. The mission was to make a difference through continuous support from educators to students’ professional development towards effective science...
Schools have been closed for several weeks now… Students are at home and the teachers must get to them. How? With distance learning! Here the emergency turns into an opportunity. Digital tools become means to reach students and support them in a moment of dismay and confusion. Nothing can...
All pictures are the author’s own. It was January 13th 2016 when Prof. Alessandro Bogliolo (University of Urbino) launched the first video lesson of the MOOC: Coding in your classroom, now! Hundreds of teachers followed him, interested in introducing coding and computational thinking in their classrooms. Since then, that...
What are the benefits of coding for students? There are multiple reasons as to why students must familiarize themselves with coding and ICT. Coding fuels the creative potential of students and improves their observation skills. Through coding, they are exposed to a logical way of thinking, and through their...
During RosaDigitale week – which begins on the 8th of March – students and teachers reflect on the history of women who have changed the world. The RosaDigitale National Movement fights for equal opportunities in the field of information technology. In Europe, thousands of events, called petals, are organized...