
Build Your App, Teach Your Students How to Build Their Apps!
Participants will acquire fundamental knowledge of app- and website-building as a crucial ability that will help them engage with students and promote creativity and entrepreneurship. They will learn to operate and teach their students how to use an easy drag-and-drop visual programming tool to give their students the opportunity to become active developers rather than passive users.
Description
- This course is available in: Malta, Rome, Split
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The course has been created for teachers and school staff interested in learning how to build websites & apps using an easy drag and drop visual programming tool that doesn’t require them to write code. The tool would become an opportunity for the participants to learn how to build an app or a website, as well as to engage with their students in the amazing adventure of building software. Using ICT solutions such as a course app, as well as teaching the students to build their own app, can have a positive impact on the students’ motivation to learn, and can help teachers to stimulate skills in their students' skills such as creativity, entrepreneurship and develop an interest towards set school tasks. During the course, participants will learn by doing and will be guided step by step through the interface of the application to familiarize themselves with the tool first and then build an app or a website. In such a way, they will take part in all the different phases of the development process. Students are passively using applications and software without clearly understanding their underlying logic. With this course, they will acquire the basic tools to move from passive use of the software to the design of it, learning the elements and fundamental logic of software creation, going from passive users to active developers! This course is providing the participants with a powerful tool that unlocks their potential in the IT world. By the end of the course, participants will have acquired the basic knowledge necessary to build an app or website and will have learned step by step how to introduce their students to visual programming and how to use it in differe...read more.
Learning objectives
The course will help the participants to:
- Understand basic programming concepts and the underlying logic;
- Acquire specific modular visual programming skills delivered through content units;
- Understand the purposes of App invention and their practical application;
- Learn how to use the MIT App Inventor platform at a proficiency level, discovering its possibilities and future application;
- Acquire a proficiency level to design different types of Apps from simple to more complex levels, using the tools offered by MIT App Inventor;
- Gain basic knowledge about other App designing platforms, allowing participants to go further regarding App designing personal and professional ambitions;
- Integrate the use of Apps in your lessons, understanding the benefits of using ICTs at school to engage students throughout their learning process.
Methodology & assessment
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Certification details
Course enrolment will guarantee you:
- Seamless Administration: We provide assistance and guidance to our participants throughout every step of the project: from the grant application to the final documents.
- Post-Course Training: 100€ voucher on 40+ online courses
- 360° experience: from coffee breaks to cultural visits
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- 🗎 Certificate of Attendance
- 🗎 Europass Mobility Certificate
- 🗎 Learning Agreement
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Pricing, packages and other information
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Price:480Euro
Additional information
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Language:English
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Target audience ISCED:Primary education (ISCED 1)Lower secondary education (ISCED 2)Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)
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Target audience type:TeacherHead Teacher / PrincipalICT Coordinator
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Learning time:25 hours or more
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