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KidsCodr - We teach kids programming
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Information technology is gradually getting into all spheres of our life and we can hardly imagine exist without them. Despite all this, 23% of the population in Europe has no digital skills. In the work sphere digital skills are needed in almost 90% of job positions and companies will be lacking 900 000 IT specialists by 2020.Despite the fact that this trend is growing, education reflects these changes very slowly and digital skills training in schools alarmingly absent. There may be many reasons, from our experience it is mainly the lack of teaching materials and teachers do not have sufficient digital skills.We want to solve these problems with KidsCodr project in which we will create a complete training curriculum to teach digital skills for children in age 6-14 years. The curriculum is divided into two parts.The software part where learning takes place in various programs, applications or directly in the programming language. This part will be composed of the training modules like Junior Scratch, Scratch, Kodulab, MIT App Inventor, Javascript and Games Minecraft.The hardware part is focused on programming robots and hardware, and this allows students to receive immediate feedback on their work in a real environment (move of the robot, activate functions, etc.). In this section we will focus on Bee-Bot robots, Lego Mindstorm EV3, Nao robots and Arduino.The content of all training modules will be made in text form (guide book 100-150 pages), videos (about 15 per 1 module) and the necessary annexes (source code, other assets attached). All components of the project will be localized in 4 languages: English, German, Slovak and Czech.Second intellectual output of the project is a web application kidscodr.eu, which will unite at a glance all the educational materials and will be available to all course participants for free. Students and teachers will use it for self-study, problem solving discussions or draft new study material for the given topics. Our goal is to build an active community that will participate in the long-term development of the project.The project will be realised and implemented by a consortium of 3 organization where coordinator, CHECK IT Ltd., is implementor of the largest educational project aimed at teaching digital skills in Slovakia. Similarly, the Austrian organization IFIT meantime has become the largest educational organization in the Austrian market, where they organised workshops, which were attended by over 6,000 pupils aged from six years. The third partner is the Czech organization JSI, which is a professional organization uniting teachers of informatics in the Czech Republic.The target group of the project KidsCodr are teachers, pupils (in age 6-14 years), schools, parents and volunteers. The project has supranational character and its implementation will take place in Slovakia, Czech Republic and Austria. In total, over 24 months, we aim to engage with the project 500 teachers and 10,000 pupils. Due to the language versions there is indirect benefit from the project in Europe targeting more than 20 million people (in countries UK, IR, DE, CH, AT, CZ, SK).Our aim is to access teachers the most modern tools and concepts in digital skills education. In the long-term we expect benefits in increasing digital literacy and digital skills of our future generation and increase in interest in studying technical studies. Benefits for students will be in a better position in the labor market or in the implementation their own projects. For the corporate sector more qualified people will be available to realize business opportunities, ensuring further growth and raise the overall standard of living.
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