ICT teacher Erin Russouw, 30, explores ways to turn her students’ interest in coding into passion 🔎 The quest of a teacher Erin Russouw is a computer science teacher from George, South Africa. She grew up in the United States and received her higher education in South Korea. Spending her formative years in the most […]
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From a chemistry researcher to a programmer in 4 hours
Divann Robertson, 35, makes his first digital move with Code School Finland 🖥 A life-long passion for technology Divann Robertson is a polymer chemist from Abbotsdale, South Africa. He is the Principal Research Scientist at Contextualize, Code School Finland’s partner in South Africa. Before coming across our work advancing digital skills education, Divann had no […]
Digital skills for academic excellence: Kannemeyer Primary School
🇿🇦 Another South African school is adopting Teachease to enable its teachers to teach a well-rounded digital curriculum for primary school children
“Training helped unify the skill level of the teachers”
Antti, Principle of Elementary School: “I can recommend this workshop to other schools too because it helped to unify the skill and knowledge level of the teachers and it gave a lot for them to take to their classes.” “This was a good place to start and we will now keep on working with programming […]
“Hands-on experience and practical advice for my own teaching”
Saara-Sofia, Teacher: “It was really interesting and nice to get real hands-on experience. Now that I’ve learned programming by trial and error I feel that I am also able to teach others.” “The focus of the workshop was on doing rather than on theory. It was good that there were three code teachers helping us so […]
“It’s good to learn coding so that I can help my classmates.”
Tilda, 4th grader: “I have been coding for a year now and Scratch is the best! My mom and I make projects together. I also like the micro:bit and to make projects with it.” “I have already built a micro:pet and a milk cartoon monster. It’s good to learn coding so that I can help […]
“Computer program helped me study math”
Otto, 3rd grader: “When I was studying the multiplication table I made a program with Python that checked my answers. I made it show a smiley face when the answer was correct!”
“Coding is easy because it’s just about giving commands”
Saimi, 1st grader: “Coding is so much fun especially if you get to program a robot, because I can decide what it does and where it goes. Better yet if it is the Candy Robot that gives out candy!” “Coding is not difficult because it is just about giving commands. I like to give commands. […]