Code Week Podcast

As technology becomes more present in our society, we aim to support the school's, teachers, policy-makers in transitioning towards this digital world and in bringing technology closer to young people. And in this episode we will talk about many topics with Silwia Blach an horror author, a developer in different coding languages and an activist. She believe that technologies change our lives for the better, but they also bring many risks. It is up to us how we use the potential.

Our guest today is Lidija Kralj is a UNESCO and European Commission expert in data and AI in education, and she used to work as a computer science and mathematics teacher. We discussed about challenges and misperceptions regarding A.I. and how is still a new environment especially for teachers. Nevertheless, AI has a lot of potential for teaching and learning, but there are a lot of challenges and risks.

Today, our guest speaker is David Alayon, a professor at the IE, Instituto de Empresa University with advanced knowledge in technology, innovation, future tech and tech advising. Co-founder and CEO of Innuba -helping companies design and launch products that have a positive impact on society- and co-founder and advisor of Mindset (consulting firm specialising in digital transformation),“I learned to code when I was really little, and they'll give you the perspective of understanding what was underneath, what I see on the screen” he told us. We talked together about Asimov, curious mindsets and educational programs.

In this episode we will have the change to talk with Georgia Lascaris and Kristina Slisuric. The first one has been working as a software engineer for about ten years in the private sector, before entering the field of education. Ahe is now a teacher of computer science, ICT, robotics and STEM in primary and secondary schools in Greece. While Kristina is an I.T. teacher in primary school in Croatia. They both shared with us their experiences in STEM as well as their experiences as teachers with digital learning and MOOCs.

Though boys and girls use technology similarly regarding learning how to code, male students have always constituted the majority of students in this topic area. Recently, various initiatives and some very smart educators pushing for more girls in coding are tackling this gender gap and gender levelling up in the CODING FIELD. In today’s chapter, we discover the EGOI, the European Girls’ Olympiad in Informatics, on the verge of its 2023 edition in Sweden. Then we head over to Cyprus to learn about the Cyprus Computer History Museum, a computing museum that feeds off female role models in the history of science and technology!

Today’s episode will focus on the 2022 study announced by the European Commission: “Reviewing Computational Thinking in Compulsory Education: State of Play and Practices from the Field”. The topics of discussion will follow the study outline, starting with a general introduction and comparison to the 2016 study, touching on study methodology, sources, and key terms, going through the main findings of the study, and finishing with key implementations and best practices.

In this episode, Povilas will be talking about his coding journey that led him to his current career, while touching on why coding is important as start in science, how a programming career in science actually looks like as opposed to big tech, as well as details about data analytics and its uses.

In this episode, the focus will be on cyber security, while also touching on the importance of coding, what is its relationship with cyber security, how to keep pupils safe, why there is a need to talk about cyber security in schools, as well as how to raise awareness about this topic with the general public.

This episode will focus on kood/Jõhvi, also known as the Jõhvi Coding School project. From general presentation of kood and its impact it aims to have on education in Estonia while filling a need in the job sector, the discussion will also touch on the start of the project and future perspective, with a part of the episode being dedicated to the application process.

Maria and our hosts will talk about how social innovators can use coding to develop solutions for every-day challenges, and focus on several main points:

- Digital changes and current solutions: where the changes needed in the educational system are discussed, but also the current solutions that are at hand to set things into motion

- Access to technology for all pupils: where the Covid-19 challenges are emphasized

- Connecting industry professionals with schools: from why is important to how to approach them