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Our goal is to promote the triadic relation among academy -industry-government in the area of ICT, computer science, its educational programs and workforce.
Our goal is to promote the triadic relation among academy -industry-government in the area of ICT, computer science, its educational programs and workforce.
Program.ar - a Sadoksy Foundation’s initiative - is a national program committed to democratizing Computer Science content knowledge to all Argentinean Schools. During the past decade Program.ar has reached to:
4.000
Teachers from 23 states with different professional development models and programs that allowed reaching a diversity of teachers.
50.000
Elementary and high school students from 1000 Argentine and Uruguayan schools.
84.913
Educators who downloaded e-textbooks + 2457 teachers who received 7500 paper based textbooks across the country.
250.000
Users of our app for programming learning «Pilas Bloques». The app also received + 5 million visitors and 10 thousand downloads.
Main actions since 2013
NATIONAL AND REGIONAL
Leadership in CS education policy and program development
Increasingly, more national and international organizations reach out to us for advice and technical training. These organizations include: Department of Education in different Argentinean states, UNICEF, IIPE UNESCO, Uruguay (Plan Ceibal), Chile (Kodea), Costa Rica (Omar Dengo), Paraguay (Paraguay Educa), Brazil (Center for Educational Innovation).
Program.AR has offered:
- Technical advice.
- Training programs.
- Teacher professional development program designs.
- Support on CS curriculum reform implementation.
DISSEMINATION OF OUR VISION AND RESEARCH
Communication strategies to promote the inclusion of CS as a standalone subject in mandatory education
Communication contributes to developing a vision that CS education serves two purposes; developing a critical, participatory and sovereign citizenship and contributing to a value added economic development.
Some communication actions include:
- 8 forums with educational communities (1500 participants).
- Press releases.
- Participation at public events such as national fairs.
CS EDUCATION PROGRAM AND TEACHER DEVELOPMENT
Remote Computer Science teaching program
Since 2018 Program.ar offers weekly synchronous Computational Thinking lessons to 16000 elementary school uruguayan students. Teachers work remotely and students received a video conference from the Argentinean CS teacher while in the class with their classroom teacher. This program contributes to ease the lack of CS teachers in the country.
Program.ar tasks on this project:
- Designs lesson plans.
- Hires and trains Argentinean CS teachers who will teach these lessons.
- Manages the course distribution among the teachers.
- Develop co-teaching partnerships between the Argentinean CS teacher and the Uruguayan classroom teacher.
- Offered 3 to 4 two months long educational projects yearly that integrate a school's traditional content with programming, hardware, software and digital citizenship.
NETWORK ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Developed network of educational institutions that offer CS teacher development programs
Program.AR has strategically worked with Public Universities to offer teacher professional development programs with several goals: 1) developing local expertise on teacher training that can remain beyond a government term, 2) promoting research groups on CS education that can help with program analysis and advice 3) recognizing the content knowledge expertise in our country, 4) increasing our capacity to train teachers across the country
Program.AR designed and provided teacher training courses for:
- Public universities professors and advanced CS students in more than 40 universities in the county offer CS education courses to elementary and high school teachers across the country.
- School leaders, supervisors, principals, and IT school facilitators so they can lead school implementation and support the teachers.
- Beginner teachers with a four year teacher preparation program on CS education developed together with the National Pedagogic University.
- Current teachers who want to teach CS with 8 masters on CS education programs developed together with public universities and teacher preparation institutions.
FOR THE CLASSROOM
Teaching resources
With the purpose of helping teachers, Program.AR designed different resources to teach CS in the classroom.
- Apps to introduce CS programming to children (Pilas Bloques).
- Apps to introduce CS to teenagers (Gobstones).
- Workbooks and textbooks for elementary and high school teachers that follow an inquiry-project based and spiral based curriculum.
- TV and radio shows.
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