CodeLab: digital laboratory for teaching programming to children at the Centro Educativo Don Bosco
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CodeLab, laboratory, neuroplasticity, STEAM learning, Interactive learning, programming skills, critical thinkingAbstract
The Codelab project's main objective is to create an innovative and accessible educational space that lets kids develop some programming skills taking advantage of childhood neuroplasticity. This phenomenon makes it easier for children to learn and adopt new skills more easily during their first development stages.
Through the STEAM approach (Science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics), the pedagogical process will be strengthened in a playful and interactive way. This way the students will explore different concepts of programmation, like algorithms, data structure and problem solutions. This project will use digital platforms, games and visual tools which make the technical concepts easier, allowing for funny and progressive learning.
It also seeks to enhance the mathematical skills of the students, essential for their academic and professional development in the long term. The activities will be designed to improve the capacity of analysis, reasoning, problem solving and key programming skills in other scientific areas.
CodeLab is based in the environment of flexible learning, so the kids will not only develop technological skills but also improve their capacity to think in a structured and creative way. This project wants to create a new generation of critical and logical thinkers with a good mathematical domain that can be applied not only in the programmation but also in their daily routine and professional lives. Through an innovative approach, CodeLab has the power to improve the programmation teaching, helping with the integral development of the students in a digital era.
The project aligns perfectly with the educational mission of the Salesianos schools, that focus on the integral youth development, these schools seek to form “good christians and honest citizens”, between an education based on values, logical reasoning and technological competencies. The implementation of CodeLab in the educational school Don Bosco will strengthen this mission, giving wonderful tools to the students to develop themselves in the actual digital world.
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