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DIGITAL FIRST Podcasts

During the project, our partners will host six podcast episodes to carry out inspiring conversations with teachers, education providers, parents, policymakers and NGOs on the status of informatics education and exchange innovative approaches to make it more engaging and relevant to today’s society.

In this first episode of our podcast series, our host Petra Bevek from the Digital Education Service of the Ministry of Education Slovenia welcomes two guests for a conversation on teaching informatics and advocating for a new education in Europe:
 
  • Uroš Ocepek, an awarded secondary school teacher specialised in computer science from Slovenia
  • Eugenia Casariego Artola, Development & Advocacy Coordinator at European Schoolnet, advocating for innovation in teaching and learning at the European level

Thanks to the Ministry of Education and ALL DIGITAL for their joint production.

Episode 2: Informatics Education Through the Eyes of Students

In this second episode of our podcast series, our hosts Marco Terzi and Fabio Biale from the Industrial Technical Institute Ferraris Pancaldo in Italy have an inspiring chat with secondary school students on teaching informatics. This episode is available in Italian with automatic subtitles in English.  
  
Thanks to the Industrial Technical Institute Ferraris Pancaldo for the production of this podcast. 

Episode 3: From Digital Resources to Artificial Intelligence ― Rethinking Informatics Education in Schools

In this third episode of our podcast series, Mário Lima from CFAE-PVVC speaks with Neuza Pedro, a Professor at the Institute of Education, University of Lisbon; Nuno Dorotea, an Assistant Professor and Researcher at the same institute; and Rui Pacheco, the Director of the Learning Technologies Lab at Porto Editora. Together, they discuss how digital tools and artificial intelligence can transform informatics education and offer students meaningful learning experiences that prepare them for a technology-driven world.

Thanks to Centro de Formação da Associação de Escolas de Vila do Conde e Póvoa de Varzim (CFAE-PVVC) for producing this podcast.

Episode 4: The Importance of Teaching and Learning Computer Science

In this fourth episode of our podcast series, Dimitria Terzieva and Nadya Stankova from Secondary School “St. st. Cyril and Methodius” speak with:

  • Stela Yaneva,
  • Maria Kecheva,
  • Sefani Apostolova – students in Secondary School “St. st. Cyril and Methodius” and
  • Stanislav Djurov, a student of Computer Science in the Technical University of Plovdiv and also currently a trainee for an IT company.

 

Together, they discuss how important Teaching and learning computer science are for the requirements of today’s digital world. What catches their thoughts is that all of the guests today consider that the computer science knowledge they receive at school and university is insufficient to prepare them for the digital world after graduation.

Thanks to the Secondary School “St. st. Cyril and Methodius” for the production of this podcast.