Together with The Open University Milton Keynes from England and ENSICO from Portugal, the Catalan cooperative Colectic is working on a collaborative hybrid training project to support educators, trainers and teaching staff who want to learn the Python language. For the first time, the CS4ALL project will organize a training day in the city of Barcelona. In this sense, the meeting will take place at the Social Hub facilities, which are located at Carrer Girona number 34 in the city of Barcelona.
Under the title 'Living with technology: innovation in education', the meeting will take place next Monday, July 10, from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The central objectives will be to present an innovative methodology to teach computational skills with a K12 perspective that covers the school stages from 6 to 18 years, to meet and share with experts and local projects that work on computational skills in school and in education in the leisure, and to encourage the debate between regulated education and educational leisure on computational skills.
So, this will be the program:
9.00 hours - Accreditations
9.30 hours - Official greeting
9.30 hours - The 'New Trivium' in the teaching of computational skills. Inês Guimarães, Master's Degree in Mathematics from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, Executive Director at ENSICO
9.55 hours - 'Living with technology: innovative education'. Challenges and results of the CS4ALL project. Luís Neves, Co-founder and President of ENSICO, Associação para o Ensino da Computação, Chairman at Ubirider, Invited Lecturer at the University of Minho, former President and member of the Porto Tech Hub Association
10.20 am - 'The teacher's perspective: introducing IT into UK schools'. Phil Hackett, Lecturer at The Open University, UK, CAS OU Virtual Community of Practice Leader
10.45 am - Question time
11:00 a.m. - Networking space with coffee
11.30 am - Local and international experiences:
Experiences of public institutions:
- Joan Cuevas, general director of Innovation, Digitization, Curriculum and Languages of the Department of Education
- Francesc Rambla, technician of the Inclusion and Digital Training Service of the Department of Business and Work
- Xavier Rosell, from the Milà and Fontanals Institute in the Raval neighborhood of the city of Barcelona
- Eduard Muntaner, from the University of Girona - MonTech
Experiences of social and educational organizations in leisure time:
- Darren Bayliss, Raspberry Pi Foundation - Code Club
- Technovation Catalonia - Spiral Association
- Héctor Gardó, Bofill Foundation - Digital Equity
- Isma Montfort, TIC Point - Omnia PES La Mina
1.30pm - Official farewell
Interested persons can register through this link online .