As part of the Erasmus+ CoTEDI project, we visit schools to carry out hands-on activities with children. These sessions allow us to test and validate educational programmes designed to foster the development of computational thinking. Working directly in classroom settings helps us ensure that our proposals are age-appropriate, engaging, and effective in real educational contexts. Read more
These Designed Activities are innovative, ready-to-use computational thinking exercises that have been carefully crafted and tested by our team. Each activity includes detailed instructions, learning objectives, and extension ideas, allowing educators to seamlessly integrate them into their curriculum. Whether unplugged challenges, hands-on projects, or digital explorations, these modules offer flexible, scalable ways to engage students in CT concepts and spark creative problem-solving. 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
