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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 Africa welcomes Code School Finland

December 7, 2020, Code School Finland

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Our first teacher training program starts this week in South Africa with participants from 4 schools both in the Eastern and Western Cape districts.

Filed Under: Articles, News, Updates Tagged With: Online training, South Africa, teacher professional development, teacher training

The secret of Finnish coding education

November 23, 2020, Code School Finland

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The Finnish education system is known for teaching kids to code already in primary school. We often get asked what other countries could learn from the Finnish approach on coding education. Here are our top picks.

Filed Under: Articles, News, Updates Tagged With: 21st century skills, coding education, Finnish education, teacher training

Student-centred learning is in the heart of teaching coding – and this calls for a change in the role of the teacher

September 28, 2020, Juuso Nieminen

Why should our students learn how to code? The answer is not “so that they would do better in tests”. Coding skills are a vital 21st century competence that should be seen as the future literacy for all rather than as a skill set for some. As technology surrounds us, those who can understand and […]

Filed Under: Articles, Updates Tagged With: coding education, project-based learning, student-centred, teacher training

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

April 7, 2021

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

March 22, 2021

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

March 4, 2021

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Case Study: Project-based learning (PBL) online

January 19, 2021

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