CIEd collaborating researcher Maribel Pinto took part in the Scratch Conference 2024, which took place on July 24.
The Ibero-American Online Community of Practice for Early Childhood Educators – the ArcaComum association – of which Maribel Pinto is President, had a project funded by the MIT Media Lab (USA) and DevTech Research Group (Boston College) 2022-2024, which was highlighted during this conference in the presentation by researcher Francisca Carocca, who works with Professor Marina Umaschi Bers, with whom the Community of Practice group and the ArcaComum Association worked for 2 years on the translation of the “Coding As Another Language” curriculum (https://sites. bc.edu/codingasanotherlanguage/scratchjr-curricula-portuguese/). At this conference, which was attended by over 600 participants, three examples of internationally translated curricula were highlighted, one of which involved the ArcaComum team.
CIEd researcher Joana Casanova took part as a facilitator in the +Student course and CIEd researcher Susana Caires took part in the +Digital course: Digitally transforming teaching and learning using digital technologies, on 23 and 24 January.
Read MoreThe new Director of CIEd, José Augusto Palhares, Associate Professor at the Institute of Education of the University of Minho, took office on 28 January.
Read MoreThis conference was given by Professor Ângela Maria Martins and moderated by CIEd researcher Fernanda Martins.
Read MoreCIEd congratulates Professor Laurinda Leite on this recognition and wishes her well throughout her term of office.
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