Coding skills have become an important future skill set in our modern world. Many countries have introduced coding and algorithmic thinking in their curricula. It’s often highlighted that these skills belong to everyone. Truly, coding skills can be even named as a new literacy! The importance of coding competencies is reflected the huge amount of […]
It is time for Online Teacher Professional Development 3.0
The year of 2020 has seen a massive increase of online teaching around the world. At the same time, the role of online pedagogy is as essential as ever. As teachers have come to notice, top-notch teaching practices are needed to truly engage students who are taking part of education through their computers. At the […]
Programming teaching and teacher training starts in Japanese schools
The Covid-19 pandemia has forced schools to partly move to remote teaching, but despite the special circumstances the schools in Japan are rolling out the new 2020 curriculum as planned. One of the major updates in the curriculum is related to computer programming. Coding will be taught starting in elementary school. It’s a major step […]
Code School Finland awarded for Authentic Finnish Educational Travel Product
Visit Finland organized an “Authentic Finnish Educational Travel Product” contest during the summer months and the top products have now been selected among 26 participants. The selection was made by a jury consisting of experts from Visit Finland and Finnish National Agency for Education. The products were evaluated based on their attractiveness, authenticity, uniqueness, adaptability […]
Camp with Finnish students
Who 40 Japanese high school students with their teachers + 10 Finnish high school students When 4.3. – 8.3.2019 (during Finnish winter holiday week) Where Game Campus, Oulu, Finland What Robotics camp Teams of 5 people (4 Japanese and 1 Finnish in each team) Teams worked hands-on with Robotics Programming Electronics Product design. Teams designed […]
Ritsumeikan high school: coding camp in March 2019
March 2019 a group of 40 Japanese students made an educational visit with their teachers to Oulu to familiarize hands-on with robotics and also with product development of game and ICT companies. The purpose of the visit was also to learn about Finnish culture and to make new friends so we invited also 10 Finnish […]
Our teaching philosophy
The Finnish Code School clubs and training are designed to respond to the needs of each individual participant. Our goal is to enable our students to execute tasks independently and by experimenting. This goal is best achieved through age-appropriate, motivating hands-on projects and exercises that support algorithmic thinking and the use of different devices and […]
AI Workshop at Dare to Learn 2018
Links and materials from the workshop We wanted to save you from typing in all those web addresses. Please find all the links needed in the workshop conveniently here! You can use these same exercises and demo’s as part of your own classes. After the workshop we will add even more materials here for you, […]