21st Century Learning and Teaching

Over 300 events are scheduled to take place in 20 countries all across Europe! A new music festival? No! It's the European Robotics Week 2014.

If you have existing experience with organizing education events, you might just be interested in the main guidelines to follow when planning your #codeEU event:

• Make the event beginner friendly, accessible even to those with no previous programming experience. Don't focus on the technicalities, try to show the fun and practical aspect of whatever technology is being used.
• The format of the event is up to you. We do however recommend to include at least practical, hands-on time, where participants can create something on their own. Even better if they can take what they've learned home to share with family and friends!
• You can use whatever tools and technologies you're most familiar with, although we do favor freely available open source tools and frameworks.
• Learning something completely new can be intimidating. A smile and a friendly atmosphere can help break the ice and make those, who don't consider themselves "technical", more at ease.
• It's also a good idea to plan a follow up. How can your participants keep learning? Who can they turn to if they have more questions?

Never organized an event before? Keep reading, it's not as difficult as you might think!

Which countries in Europe are buzzing with coding activity? The scoreboard is sorted by the number of listed coding events per population, so don't be surprised to see some of the smaller countries higher up on the list!

Learn more:

- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/coding-a-new-trend-in-education-and-a-big-responsibility/