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EU Code Week Learning Bits

Short free resources to bring coding in your classroom, without any experience needed.

EU Code Week initiative includes a wide number of free resources to help kids get started with the learning of coding and computational thinking and to guide educators on how to plan innovative lesson about this. EU Code Week Learning Bits are short training resources that don't require any previous coding or programming experience and knowledge.

Each module takes only around 15 minutes to complete and it also comes with practical instructions and advice on how to implement the activity in your classroom. The main aim of these free resources is to show how teachers can easily integrate coding and computational thinking in the classroom, even though they have no previous experience. These are some of the topics of the Learning Bits:

  • Coding without digital technology
  • Visual Programming and creating educational games with Scratch
  • Coding for inclusion
  • Creative coding with Python
  • Mining Media Literacy, and many more

 

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EU Code Week

EU Code Week is a European grassroots initiative, organised in October every year. Code Week aims at awakening citizens' and especially children’s and teenagers’ interest in coding, computational thinking, robotics, and related digital skills. Millions of participants, including schools, institutions and people of all ages, cultures and backgrounds take part in the initiative each year.

Methodology

Videos and tutorial

Additional information

Industry - field of education and training
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) not further defined
Database and network design and administration
Software and applications development and analysis
Target audience
Digital skills in education.
Geographic scope - Country
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Cyprus
Target language
English
Geographical sphere
EU institutional initiative
Target group
Persons requiring employment retraining
Persons in secondary/compulsory education
Persons in primary education
Persons with a learning disability

Digital technologies

Skill levels