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The teacher training organised as part of the second edition of Project CS First, promoted with Google [see news: Education is Viral] began on Tuesday, June 19, with Vincenzo Di Pumpo, teacher and pedagogic innovation enthusiast.

 

The 26 participating teachers worked on coding projects, developed virtual clubs for students on the CS First Platform and started preparing for the CSF League challenge in October.

 

Yesterday, June 20, a different group of primary and first-degree secondary school teachers from Lazio met for the second time with Coach Mauro Crepaldi. The teachers explored the CS First Platform that allows didactic activities to be made more exciting and custom-tailored to develop the computational thinking of students.

 

Teachers learn to programme with Scratch, a block language used to develop stories and animations that help them teach their subjects in a new way. Applying coding transversally and in a custom-tailored manner allows teachers not only to interest students in programming, but also to make the lessons more dynamic and the content more interactive.

 

Next week, training sessions will be held in Sondrio and in Rome.

 

 

WHO ARE THE COACHES?

 

Vincenzo Di Pumpo

 

"You can only know what you love." (Augustine)

 

Born in Puglia in 1979, after having earned two specialistic degrees in the humanities, Vincenzo di Pumpo has taught religion in primary school since 2008. In an attempt to introduce subjects that the students would be interested in – and constant professional updating – I looked for and introduced a range of innovative didactic strategies and digital tools. Today, I am sharing my experiences with other teachers and promote it throughout my school as proof that one needs not be an engineer to apply digital didactic activities.

 

 

Mauro Crepaldi

 

A head amongst the clouds and feet firmly planted on the ground.

 

A primary school teacher born in 1963, Mr. Crepaldi teaches with wonder and educates to curiosity (being a former magician helps). Today, he is a digital coach at his school (there obviously was a need for a “DOS” native) that proposes web-like evaluation systems for universities and colleagues (growing up reading Lee&Ditko obviously left a mark) while he also promotes marketing initiatives such as “€uroscuola” at his school. As an educator, he graduated from the “old school” of IRI Management with experiences in PNL and classic hypnosis (if you fall asleep during one of his lessons, you now know why). And consider yourselves lucky, he could have played one of his compositions (he plays a range of instruments and composes). Moreover, as a political ghostwriter and editorialist under a pseudonym, after having convinced the State to pay for the construction of a digital school planetarium at his school, he can show everyone the stars.

 

 

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