CONNECTING STUDENTS TO IT USING LOW-CODE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS TO PROMOTE PUBLIC HEALTH AND DIGITAL LITERACY – LEVEL 2 (INTERMEDIATE)
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Title
Connecting students to IT using low-code development environments to promote public health and digital literacy – Level 2 (Intermediate)
Description
The technological revolution of the last decades has contributed to the consolidation of a new social paradigm known as knowledge society or information society. This paradigm is reflected in a globalized and multilingual world, full of economic, commercial, political, social, and cultural relations, where professional specialization is a necessity. Aiming to help achieve this specialization, the educational scenario supports ICT teachers in expanding students’ skills in a way they are not just passive consumers of technology, but active content creators too. Learning how to code can support students’ engagement in the development of innovative solutions that benefit the health of their community, while developing general problem-solving skills central to success in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) curricula and careers. By learning how to code students go from being passive users of apps, digital content, and web pages to actively participate in their creation with meaningful purpose. Particularly, block-based coding or programming is an element of programming where text-based computer commands are groups together in pre-programmed blocks that drag and drop together to build computer programs such as animations and games. Block coding is considered “syntax-free” in that a user does not need to be careful about the order and requisite syntax of commands and punctuation, which need to be memorized in text-based programming. This means it has a tremendous potential to take education to the next level. The scenario aims to familiarize students with public health risks and patterns of protective behavior, as well as making them capable of explaining those ideas to others in low-code environments. Several topics related to a main determinant of health - nutrition habits - will be explored while operating in various multimodal content creation tools. The learning experience supports youths in understanding how STEM may contribute to create new and revolutionizing solutions to public health, as well as stimulate their creativity, decision-making and problem-solving skills, while supporting them in the process of becoming tech producers and public health ambassadors.
REFERENCE URL
https://photodentro.pafse.eu/handle/8586/486
LEARNER CHARACTERISTICS
Educational level
lower secondary, higher secondary
Τypical age range
From 13 To 18
Language level
B1-medium knowledge, B2-good knowledge, C1-very good knowledge, C2-proficient knowledge
FUNDING INFORMATION
LEARNING OBJECT
program / project: PAFSE project
PAFSE project
METADATA
program / project: PAFSE project
PAFSE project
CLASSIFICATION
Subject / Topic / Concept
Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) > Computer programming > Programming environment
Learning resource type
educational scenario - lesson plan
APPEARS IN COLLECTIONS
Educational Scenarios
CONTRIBUTION
CONTRIBUTORS
Team coordinator: University of Minho (UM)
METADATA CONTRIBUTORS
LEARNING OBJECT / METADATA LICENSING & PUBLISHING
Licensor: University of Minho (UM)
Publisher: University of Minho (UM)
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Format
application/pdf (955.96 kB)
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download and local execution
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Language
english
Original language
english
Spoken language
english
IDENTIFIER
PHOTODENTRO
8586/486
LICENSE
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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