“CODING in a cultural Europe” is a strategic partnership between six schools cross Europe, designed to build a shared curriculum of good practices for children from 3 to 13 years old that will help European pupils and students to develop computational thinking and digital skills, to help children acquire the “21st century skills”(as defined by the OECD’s Centre for Education Research
and Innovation):
– Creativity and Innovation
– Critical thinking and problem solving
– Digital competence
– Agility, adaptability and capacity for lifelong learning
– Teamwork and collaboration in virtual teams
– Initiative, self direction and entrepreneurialism
– Multiple languages and cultural awareness
Students from 6 different European Countries will learn together how to code and how to build their own programs, learning computer science, information technologies and digital literacy for a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. They will also have an approach to educational robotics: they will experience a set of activities to facilitate the development of knowledge, skills and attitudes for the design, analysis and application in robotics.
The main idea underneath our project is that teaching computational thinking to young learners on a large scale will help change the paradigm of children from being technology consumers to technology producers, in order to become protagonists in the process of building their own knowledge and their own future. It will also help them to understand and change the world.