Aprendiendo ciencias de la computación mediante un juego

During the past three weeks, many 10th Year students were presented with a cryptography challenge game based on Khan Academy resources. The challenge is to solve a mysterious problem, introduced as a spy story, where the students play in first person. The story begins with an introduction to a historical moment and to the character's descriptions. Once the context and objectives of the game are defined, participants can access a list of clues....

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Student's reports on Scratch programming

Two pedagogical ideas put together: Number one. MIT's Scratch is known for providing a stepping stone to the fascinating world of computer programming. The scratch programming philosophy is about creating new code or remix existing coding contents, based on a very intuitive and visual block instruction set. Students develop technological fluencies, as well as creative and design skills with every project they develop. Number...

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Waves in motion since 2015

Waves moving since 2015, what does the title of this post mean? For me, but primarily for many of the students of the Goethe Schule Buenos Aires, it refers to one of the many ways in which they record their learning in the course blogs. Since then, uninterrupted every year, students combine text, images, and audio in their articles. Here a bit of history: https://makeitvisiblenow.blogspot.com/2015/04/you-sound.html A small...

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Sometimes Qs are + important than As

Today I tweeted the header image for this post and immediately after posting, it felt like the idea would stick in my head all day long. Until now that I was able to relate that morning impulse of posting to something more solid. Did you ever wonder what brings an educator to Tweet about a famous quote? I follow a couple of users that share remarkable quotes regularly, but never experienced firsthand the connection between the essence of...

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¿Cómo podemos utilizar las métricas Khan?

Hemos estado utilizando Khan Academy por los últimos cuatro meses. La selección de la plataforma no ha sido caprichosa, sino que responde a la creciente necesidad de personalizar el acceso a los recursos de aprendizaje. Cada estudiante es único, y ustedes pensarán que afirmar esto es un lugar común, sin embargo no siempre se realizan esfuerzos por personalizar la experiencia de aprendizaje. Ha sido una experiencia interesante desde varios puntos...

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Why should we learn about....

It is amazing how a simple question as "Why do we have to learn this?" has the power to trigger student's reflection. Silvia's tweet about the topic made me think about this... Take for instance what happened today at @Goetheshuleba HS Computer Science session. A number of 16 years old students are learning about cryptography as part of their CS curriculum, they are playing a game called "Cryptography challenge 101" based on Khan Academy resources....

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