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Clash of Codes: coding and teamwork
Clash of Codes is a new competition in which every week all Codelearn students contribute with their work and earn points for their center or school. Its main goal is to promote teamwork among students attending a same center, help them maintain perseverance when doing exercises, motivate them to improve themselves every week and reward the centers that have worked the most.
Christmas Contest Winners
- Logo from 6 to 9 years old: Max Delgado - Logo from 10 to 12 years old: Isolda Murcia - Scratch from 10 to 12 years old: Abril Codinach Click on the image to access the Scratch project - Scratch from 13 to 18 years old: Alba Pérez Click on the image to access the...
5 Benefits of video games for children
Video games are increasingly popular and the video game industry has grown so much in recent years that it is bigger than the movie and music industry combined. Despite the risks resulting from the misuse of video games, the fear of having too much screen time and the subsequent rejection by some parents who try to prevent their children from playing, the truth is that moderate use of video games provides different benefits for child development.
Minecraft, the educational video game which helps children learning to code
Minecraft is a programmable game that we can modify through programming. It is a flexible and creative game which motivates children a lot, and all these incentives can be used to learn to code, among many other things. To understand the wide range of educational possibilities that it offers: in Minecraft we can work on basic electronics concepts with Redstone, students’ creativity when building their own world or learning programming using JavaScript.
Does everyone need to learn programming?
You may think programming is too complicated for a child, but it is actually quite the contrary. Adults have often prejudices that difficult their learning process. Instead, children have a totally open attitude and are much more receptive, specially while using a learning method which is based on games. Moreover, learning programming has lots of benefits beyond being able to follow a STEM career, since it helps children developing transferable skills that are useful in any field such as computational thinking.