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Code School Finland supports equal learning in new literacy and digital skills

June 18, 2021, Code School Finland

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A 2020-2023 development program New literacy skills aims to further strengthen media literacy, ICT skills and programming skills in childhood education and pre-primary and basic education.

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The impact of Code School Finland pedagogy to coding attitudes and computational thinking

June 4, 2021, Code School Finland

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Our recent case study shows how students’ interest toward coding, co-operativity and collaborative problem-solving were effectively promoted during a 16-week coding course.

Filed Under: Articles, News, Updates Tagged With: Case study, project-based learning, research

Improve teachers’ ability to teach coding without improving teachers’ coding ability

April 7, 2021, Kaisu Pallaskallio

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A recent case study on teachers’ perceptions before and after taking the 21st Century Coding Pedagogy online course shows that participants’ confidence levels about teaching coding increased. They felt better equipped to teach coding, although they did not get any additional training on coding content knowledge.

Filed Under: Articles, News, Updates Tagged With: 21st century skills, Case study, pedagogy, teacher professional development, teacher training, Teachers

Case study: training teachers into 21st century coding pedagogy online

March 22, 2021, Kaisu Pallaskallio

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Related to a recent training program with participants from Malaysia and Hungary, I prepared a research study about how attending our course would change the participants’ perceptions and attitudes towards their own role as a coding teacher. Sign up to receive full details.

Filed Under: Articles, News, Updates Tagged With: Case study, teacher professional development, teacher training, teacher's role

South African kids return to classrooms for learning coding and skills for the changing world

March 4, 2021, Code School Finland

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In preparation for the nationwide roll-out plan of coding & robotics announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa and the department of basic education, forward-looking schools are already running coding courses in classrooms.

Filed Under: Articles, News, Updates Tagged With: CAPS, Coding, coding education, primary schools, South Africa

Case Study: Project-based learning (PBL) online

January 19, 2021, Code School Finland

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We taught programming&working-life skills to students in Malaysia using project-based learning approach entirely online. Experiences and results now available via a case study.

Filed Under: Articles, News, Updates Tagged With: Case study, Malaysia, Online courses, Python

Role of game development in education

January 12, 2021, Jussi Koivisto

Photo of students working with their game development

Is gaming a waste of time? The future of the game industry looks bright. Being a consumer of games can awaken the passion to work in the field some day. Introducing game development in education can motivate children into STEAM subjects. In this article, we look at game development in K-12 education and focus on Unreal Engine 4 (UE4).

Filed Under: Articles, News, Updates Tagged With: Game development, game making, Unity, Unreal Engine 4

Assessment for the Shanghai Youth Coding Competition

December 28, 2020, Code School Finland

Code School Finland was in charge of the assessment for the biggest coding competition in Shanghai, the Shanghai Youth Coding Competition. On stage 1 of the competition, students from grades 1-9 participated in Scratch competition. Scratch is a graphical programming environment which is especially suitable for younger students. Middle and high school students had also […]

Filed Under: Articles, News, Updates Tagged With: Assessment, china, Coding, Competition, Python, scratch

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