Christian Glahn presented CoTEDI at the STIU (Schweizer Tag des Informatik Unterrichts/Swiss Day of Computer Science Teaching). STIU hosts also the national finals of the Bebras (Informatik Biber) competition. The CoTEDI booth was well received by teachers, students, parents, and researchers. Read more
Highly visual ICT learning environments offer excellent opportunities to enable meaningful learning about science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Application of such environments can enable tangible experience, lower the level of abstraction and increase imagination, allowing fundamental concepts underlying STEM to be taught in an understandable, meaningful way at an early age. Through inquiry-based learning, stimulation of curiosity, manipulation of concrete materials and through the encouragement of meaningful learning, such ICT learning environments can ensure that elementary school students develop a positive learning attitude and become more motivated for STEM. Read more
In the context of using technology in a different way to develop computational thinking (CT), the CoTEDI project links up with Dr Nardie Fanchamps' research on the application of music producing with electronic software. This is to identify what impact creativity can have on developing CT, and what role can be attributed to different modalities. A scientific journal article is already published. Read more
The results of our exploration published for INTED'25 shed light on the development, implementation, testing and training for new forms of pedagogy in primary education and childcare, and for professionalization of managers, teachers and childcare workers regarding a developmental focus on CT for children with special educational needs. Read more
This activity consisted of starting to use educational robots (bee-bot) to buy food at delicatessen shop. Read more
The URJC CoTEDI team participated in a workshop of computational thinking, presenting the CoTEDI project. Read more
This activity consisted of explaining the concept of nodes and graphs to primary school children. After the explanation, they worked on it through electric cards in working groups. Read more
María Zapata participated in a 10-minute podcast on Onda Cero - Madrid Sur. She was talking about how computational thinking is included in our daily lives. Read more
This activity consisted of explaining the concept of algorithms to primary school children. After the explanation, they worked on it through drawings in working groups of a maximum of 4 people. Read more
The book "Assessing Computational Thinking: An Overview of the Field" recently published by Routledge offers interesting insights and valuable perspectives to the CoTEDI project, which aims to develop a common methodology for applying computational thinking (CT) in educational settings. Here’s an analysis of how the book aligns with and supports the CoTeDI project. Among the interesting aspects that could be highlighted, we have identified the points below. Read more
