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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.

Episode 1: Teaching Informatics and Advocating for a New Education in Europe

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.

Episode 5: Inclusive and Creative Informatics Learning through Minecraft Education

In this episode of the Digital First Podcast, we explore functional and inclusive learning in informatics through two classroom projects. We begin with a Minecraft Education lesson where students learn coding through building and collaboration, and continue with a digital storytelling project in Scratch, where code becomes a tool for creativity, choice, and expression. The episode highlights how functional learning, gamification, and student-centered design can make informatics accessible and meaningful for every learner. 
 
Thanks to the primary school “Toneta Čufarja Maribor” from Slovenia for the production of this podcast.

Episode 6: Generational Digital Divide - Do We All Speak the Same Language

In this episode of the Digital First Podcast, students and digital experts explore how different generations communicate, learn, and express themselves in today’s digital world through the lens of Halliday’s language functions. The discussion opens important questions about digital communication, identity, creativity, learning, ethics, relationships, and the role of technology in everyday life.

Together with special guests dr. Emilija Stojmenova Duh, former Minister of Digital Transformation of Slovenia and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, and dr. Martin Marizdovšek, researcher at the Jožef Stefan Institute and consultant for AI, digitalisation and innovation policy, students discuss topics such as artificial intelligence, digital citizenship, online behaviour, creativity, misinformation, digital identity, and the future of communication.

Through authentic student voices and intergenerational dialogue, the episode highlights how digital technologies are transforming the ways we interact, learn, create, and understand the world around us, while also reminding us that meaningful communication and responsible digital participation remain shared responsibilities across generations.

Thanks to the primary school “Bratov Polančićev” from Slovenia for the production of this podcast.