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Get off the piggy train – learning for real life

June 16, 2020, Tarmo Toikkanen

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.

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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.

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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, […]

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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.

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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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Coding in Finnish curriculum

April 2, 2019, Kaisu Pallaskallio

Since its roll-out began in 2016 coding is a mandatory, cross-curricular activity that starts from first year of school for every child in Finland. In the national curriculum for primary education coding is not a subject on its own, but rather it is viewed as a medium for getting things done, a tool for learning and […]

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Our teaching philosophy

October 24, 2018, Code School Finland

The Finnish Code School clubs and training are designed to respond to the needs of each individual participant. Our goal is to enable our students to execute tasks independently and by experimenting. This goal is best achieved through age-appropriate, motivating hands-on projects and exercises that support algorithmic thinking and the use of different devices and […]

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Coding in curriculum

September 14, 2018, Code School Finland

Why and how should coding be part of our curriculum?What’s the best way to support our teachers for coding skills?How to assess learning and how to provide personal learning paths?How to teach coding on different grades?How to inspire student interest? KEYS TO SUCCESS Online materialDigital material is always up to date and available. You will […]

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