The health emergency has accelerated transformation processes in school and confirmed the strategic role of technology for the education of the new generations. Thanks to Google’s Computer Science First Platform (csfirst.withgoogle.com), the Fondazione Mondo Digitale has continued to support professors, even those less familiar with technology, to experiment with new teaching languages for curricular subjects and the custom-tailoring of learning activities for students with special needs.
In the fourth edition of the project, the educational community shared solutions for integrated and distance didactics, starting with curriculum mapping and open on-line courses (MOOCs) developed with Alessandro Bogliolo, Professor of Information Processing Systems at the University of Urbino.
Mapping transversal activities and disciplines is a starting point that every teacher can implement and custom tailor with new didactic solutions to extend the range of connections between different areas and curricular subjects. The Moodle Platform at formazione.innovationgym.org provides courses, tutorials and projects that can be used in classrooms (both virtual and physical) from primary to second-degree secondary school. The objective is to reach 6000 teachers, particularly those working with fragile students.
The Fondazione Mondo Digitale will organise live training sessions on coding for civic education, focusing on content and strategies. Students will learn through video courses and block coding with Scratch, saving their projects on a dashboard shared with the teacher, who will be able to monitor the progress of the student and their understanding of the tools. The students will create multimedia projects, learn to solve complex problems and develop soft skills to continue learning and more easily access the job market.
The new edition of CS First will not only involve teachers, but parents too. Indeed, STEM subjects continue to reveal a profound gender gap - only 16% women vs. 34% males – as revealed by the Global Gender Gap Report 2021 of the World Economic Forum. Education at home and at school are the key areas where to allow young women to become protagonists of their own future. Thanks to focus groups and a national research project (on 2200 parents), the project objective is to develop a strategy to help families to understand the advancement of the digital economy and orient young women towards scientific studies, overcoming stereotypes and commonplaces on “male careers.”
Coding for Equal Opportunities and Inclusion
Presentation of the 4th edition of CS First
June 4, 2021, 5:00 pm
Webinar for teachers
Valentina Gelsomini presents the CS First Platform
Speakers: Ilaria Gaudiello (researcher), Project Coordinator; Vincenzo Di Pumpo, Mauro Crepaldi, Barbara Avella, Paola Ianni, Stefania Altieri, Paola Pupilli, Federico Di Giacomo, Caterina Coluzzi and Rosa Di Perna (eduators)
