FuturoDigitale is Partner of the European event CodeWeek 2014!
The European week of programming
Learn to program … For your future and for Europe!
From 11 to October 17, 2014 takes place the week of programming, Europe Week, conceived by the Young Advisors Group Queues of Vice President Neelie Kroes. In the week hundreds of events will take place across Europe to offer children and young people the opportunity to start programming! It won’t be simple seminars, but real programming experience, which will enable even the youngest have fun constructively seeing ideas take shape. The materials and methods tested during the CodeWeek will remain available to anyone who wants to use them and extend them.
What is it
The CodeWeek is a container for events proposed by anyone who shares the purposes and can help to reach them. Success is measured by counting the people, especially children and young people, who, during the week of programming will have had the opportunity to attend an event of coding. For this it is important that events are many, diverse, distributed throughout the national territory and, above all, taken part! To achieve this need the cooperation and participation of all!
Because
Programming is the language of things. We call smart objects contain a microprocessor that is just waiting to be programmed. Program is the easiest way to realise our ideas and computational thinking stimulates creativity.
Where and when
The Italy participates as a protagonist in Europe Queues Week, organizing events at local and national level, coordinating international events and throwing in that week important institutional initiatives for the school and for the boys. The interactive map of upcoming events is available online and is continuously enriched.
Many of the events organized in Italy will be made available online to allow the participation of schools and youth groups connected by other forums.
Event CODE Week 2014 to FuturoDigitale
“Digital Scratch”
Date: Friday 17 October 2014
Time: from 11:00 to 13:00
Place: Terranova da Sibari, middle schools
Event detail: the event is aimed at young people between 11 and 13 years who will be interacting with programming through:
- -“Scratch” platform that lets you create animations, comics and games.
- -Wordpress to build websites.
- -interaction with social networks with “network” System.
Here the page of our event.
Kids can interact with tools that allow a more “professional” and aware of technologies preventing also forms of cyberbullying.
Sites related to the event:
http://informatica.uniurb.it/codescool/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtcyXCuAy_NHusocxuERuXA