Daniel Gonçalves, one of the lead researchers of the TangIn team was invited to share with ETH Zürich researchers the work being done in the project to promote tangible programming in formal education. ETH Zürich is considered to be, one of, if not the best, technical school in Europe and usually ranks Top 5 in the world for science and engineering. The school accounts with 21 Nobel laureates in its belt, including Albert Einstein, and…

This week we released the third newsletter of TangIn project with the latest news about the project developments and the upcoming plans. In this edition of the newsletter the focus is on the teachers training course held in the beginning of January in Aveiro, Portugal. Participant teachers have provided detailed insights and feedback that are fundamental for the research team of the project. We also present the structure of the toolbox of educational resources that…

The European teachers training course on tangible programming, held last week in Aveiro, finished last Saturday and participants are motivated with what they have learned and can use in primary school education. For five days, 16 teachers from Portugal, Spain, Bulgaria and Latvia attended the European teachers training course on tangible programming promoted in the framework of the TangIn project. The course aimed to promote teachers’ competences in using tangible programming concepts and tools to…

A total of 16 teachers from different countries are together in Aveiro participating in the European training course on tangible programming, promoted in the framework of the TangIn project, by Universidade de Aveiro.  Started on last Tuesday, the first edition of this European teacher training course on tangible programming is running the third day. On the first day, two sessions with experts in ICT for education, tangible programming and computational thinking were promoted. An initial…

Over the next week, starting Tuesday 8th January and with a duration of five days, Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal), in the framework of the TangIn project, is hosting the TangIn European teachers training course on tangible programming.  This first edition of this teachers training course addresses selected teachers of the TangIn project partners shools, teaching at primary school level. A total of 16 teachers coming from Portugal, Spain, Bulgaria and Latvia will be together for…

On the 5th and 6th December Colegio Santa Elena, Spanish partner, hosted the members of the consortium in Vilarejo de Salvanés for the third meeting of the TangIn project. The objective of this meeting was to analyze the preliminary results of the pilot phase that took place in Murtosa School in Portugal. The pre-pilot phase was implemented by three primary teachers in the second and fourth classes, each of which implemented 5 sessions with the…

Researchers of Carreira & Alegre have presented the TangIn project draft educational resources at the European Researchers Night 2018 in Aveiro, hosted by Ciência Viva and in Porto, hosted by INOVA+. On the last Friday of September 2018 the European Researchers Night 2018 took place in dozens of cities all over Europe, aiming to promote science and technology to civil society and showing how science impacts and contributes to everyday life. The event was a…

Researchers of the University of Aveiro have presented the TangIn in the International Council for Education Media 2018 conference, held in September this year in Tallinn Estonia. Between the 5th and 7th September the ICEM 2018 conference took place in the Tallinn, organized by the Centre for Educational Technology of the School of Digital Technologies of the University of Tallinn, aiming to promote the sharing and the discussion of topics and practices related to the…

The TangIn project has been widespread through the participation in various events that are being promoted in Portugal, devoted to topics such as programming, new technologies and school curriculum innovation. On 4th of July, Aveiro University organized the II CIDTFF Fórum aiming to promote practices, strategies and resources to empower teachers’ continuous education in didactics and technology. The Forum was organized by the research center for teachers training in didactics and technology of Aveiro University…

On 4th of July 2018 Aveiro University organized the II CIDTFF Fórum aiming to promote practices, strategies and resources to empower teachers’ continuous education in didactic and technology. The Fórum was organized by the research center for teachers training in didactics and technology of Aveiro University and a poster on TangIn was accepted and included in the Poster session and book. If you are interested in participating in the TangIn project or if you would…

Preliminary findings from the desk research, teaches responses to questionnaires and focus group activities show that most of primary level teachers are still not aware of what tangible programming is, and how it can be used in their daily practices to stimulate students for STEM-based subjects and to promote students’ inclusion.   On May 22nd and 23rd TangIn consortium members meet in Sofia, Bulgaria, hosted by Know & Can Association, to discuss the preliminary findings…

TangIn questionnaire about tangible programming and digital competences is now available. In the framework of the initial activities of the TangIn project we are happy to announce that our questionnaire for teachers is now available! The questionnaire targets teachers of primary school education and aims to understand what teachers’ perceptions about tangible programming and digital tools are, and how these can be used in the classrooms to teach STEM related subjects and to promote school…

TangIn Project | Tangible Programming for Inclusion and STEM Promotion Young student’s skills development through the use of accessible concepts and activities of tangible programming The TangIn project – Promoting inclusion and a STEM curriculum in schools via tangible programming concepts and activities, was designed to promote and enhance in the school context, the use of the new tools now available and the adoption of more attractive and inclusive pedagogical practices, reinforcing students’ motivation and…