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Tarmo Toikkanen

About Tarmo Toikkanen

Design researcher of learning environments. Teacher trainer.

AI Curriculum receives top scores from independent evaluators

June 24, 2020, Tarmo Toikkanen

Our AI Curriculum, launched in China in early 2020 and spreading across the Nordic countries, has been independently evaluated by Education Alliance Finland.

Filed Under: News, Updates

Get off the piggy train – learning for real life

June 16, 2020, Tarmo Toikkanen

A girl in a piggy train

To keep school relevant and motivating for students, learning goals should be connected to real life. In programming teaching we see too many “piggy trains” where one just happily follows instructions. Coding should be taught for real life, meaning that teaching should be connected to the students’ interests, projects, and phenomena.

Filed Under: Articles, News, Updates Tagged With: Coding, phenomena, project, studentproject

Coding is creative self-expression

June 16, 2020, Tarmo Toikkanen

We often run into the misconception that coding is first and foremost logical deduction and mathematical drudgery. Those same people probably think that composing music is just maths. Musical hobbies do develop mathematical skills, but music is so much more.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Coding, creativity, music, self-expression

Coding as a work method for all phenomena based learning

June 16, 2020, Tarmo Toikkanen

Phenomena connect subject areas, teachers and classes into new forms of collaboration. To ensure that groups of students can express themselves, the range of working methods should be sufficient. Coding is a form of creative expression that allows for the creation of interactive media. Coding should be one additional learning tool next to reading, writing, […]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Coding, creativity, phenomena, project, studentproject

Why coding in school?

March 6, 2020, Tarmo Toikkanen

To delve into this question, I will use ask 5 consecutive “why” questions to find the root cause. This is a popular technique in software companies as well.

Filed Under: Articles

Interview with Head of Operations, Tarmo Toikkanen

February 28, 2020, Tarmo Toikkanen

Tarmo Toikkanen

Tarmo Toikkanen is a design researcher of learning as well as a seasoned teacher trainer in Finland, Europe and Asia. Why have you joined Code School Finland? The national curriculum in Finland in 2014 presented a unique way of addressing programming in primary education: a mandatory element of all teaching as part of transversal competences. […]

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