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Blended learning advantages
Due to the arrival of the coronavirus many schools, extracurricular activities and other training for both children and adults have experienced with online education or e-learning for the first time. E-learning is a modality that, as we explained some months ago, requires a different preparedness because it presents specific challenges. Given the uncertainty surrounding the 2020-2021 academic year and all the doubts regarding how to deal with a second wave of coronavirus in Europe, the “new normality” has given more importance to a term that we at Codelearn know very well: blended learning.
August Contest winners
Codelearn students have been learning to code all summer using our online platform and when they work hard on their coding skills they get the chance to win amazing prizes. This year we wanted to give away two laptops, a Nintendo DS, three drones and three Arduino Kits.
August Contest: keep working on the platform and win prizes!
Complete your exercises correctly, win points and try to reach the Top5 of the August Ranking. At the end of the competition the five students at the top of the ranking will get a prize. Also, we will raffle four more prizes among the rest of participants.
New adventure on the platform: Go, the Chinese chess
This year’s Summer League is about Go, an ancient game that has its origins in China, it became really popular in Japan and the rest of Asian countries and it is considered the equivalent of chess in the East.
PISA 2021 will test computational thinking
Mathematical competences will be the main subject assessed in PISA 2021 and for the first time these tests will include questions to assess students’ computational thinking. PISA is a program promoted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that every three years assesses students who complete compulsory education in participating countries with the aim of knowing the effectiveness of these countries educational systems when preparing their students to face their future.