Code Week Podcast

In this episode, Teá Horvatic and Marijana Smolcec, both teachers from Croatia, explain the basics of media literacy and why its importance is growing. Together with Eugenia and Arjana, they describe methods of teaching media literacy to students in ways that are engaging and exciting.

This episode sees Arjana and Eugenia discuss digital poetry and Internet art with Jaka Železnikar, an author and artist from Slovenia. They learn about the connection between literature and digital technology and provide tips on how to teach this to your students in an engaging way.

In this episode, Eugenia and Arjana are joined by Artur Coelho, a Portuguese ICT teacher. They explore the ways through which coding can be used for artistic creation, like through robotics and 3D printing.

In order to learn more about game design and gamification and their potential uses in the classroom, Arjana and Eugenia invite Ollie Bray, the Strategic Director of Education Scotland, to join them on the EU Code Week podcast series. They explore the uses of gamification in school, and why its use in education is more relevant than ever.

Arjana and Eugenia learn about digital skills in this episode, with guests Angela Jafarova and Elchin Jafarov

from Latvia who are the founders of Datorium, a coding school in

Riga. They answer questions such as: what are digital skills; how can you prepare your students for the future; and what will be the most important digital skill in the future?

Our guest in this episode is Alessandro Bogliolo, a computer science professor at the University of Urbino and an ambassador for Code Week in Italy. He has been involved in Code Week from the start, and with Eugenia and Arjana, he discusses the importance of Code Week’s initiatives and their impact on education in Europe.