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Code Week ambassadors Nicky and Evelien ready for challenging assignment: Interview
The citizens' initiative EU Code Week promotes numerous activities around programming and digital skills. Dozens of organizations in our country participate to make coding accessible to young people in a fun, attractive way. However, the EU Code …
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Get started with textless picture books and talking boards for all ages
Textless picture books and discussion boards are tools to stimulate language development and multilingualism. This applies to both language learners with Dutch as their home language (NT1) and to language learners for whom Dutch is the second …
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What is Grooming?
If a stranger seeks online contact with a minor, it is not always with good intentions. Sometimes a stranger is out for sexual contact and first tries to forge an online friendship to gain someone's trust. We also call this grooming .
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Jubilee Edition of the EU Programming Week
The anniversary edition of EU Programming Week marks ten years of promoting programming in schools across Europe and beyond
The tenth edition of the EU Programming Week will take place this year from 8 to 23 October 2022 and will host a range …
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A coding gift under the Christmas tree
Are you looking for a fun and educational gift? Why not a programmable robot? Also for toddlers! This article gives a brief overview of the best digital gifts with which you can teach children to code and program.
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COSMO: Virtual reality and augmented reality
COSMO is a research project involving companies from the manufacturing industry, research groups and secondary schools.
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Learn language: Review of book
"A book that absolutely must be read not only by school teams, but also by policymakers."
Lieven Coppens writes an honest review about that book by Koen Jaspaert and Carolien Frijns about how language development works, how our image of …
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Can your students already think computationally?
In this article by Klasse, Frank Neven, professor of computer science at Hasselt University, talks about the importance of computational thinking in primary and secondary education. Computational thinking was included for the first time in the …
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Podcast: Improve your students' online information skills with these tips
Searching for information online is becoming increasingly important. What can schools do to improve students' online information literacy?
More and more research shows that students are comfortable with media and devices. At the same time, they do not …
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EU Code Week 2020: Toolkit
Information about Code Week 2020, what you can do as a teacher or school, how to organize a programming event and what you need.
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What do we remember from Monkey Tail Years 8?
Apestaart jaar is a study into media possession and use among children between 6 and 12 years old and youngsters between 12 and 18 years old in Flanders, which Mediaraven, Mediawijs and imec-MICT-UGent conduct every two years.
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Why every teacher should teach about fake news
'Fake news is everywhere, and young people are falling for it with open eyes'. Is that right? And what can you do as a teacher? Annelore Deprez (UGent and Artevelde University College Ghent) explains the rise of fake news and tells you how you …
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