With the accession of the USA, Romania, Spain, Germany, and Mexico, they are already taught in 11 countries to program the experience-based method developed at the Hungarian programming school, Logiscool.
As young people grow up in their hands with digital devices, often using multiple screens, their stimulus thresholds are getting higher and harder to catch their attention. Founded in 2014, Logiscool recognizes this by developing its own educational method, the core of which is the Scoolcode educational platform.
The easiest way to imagine the interface is to have a virtual tweet: kids' first programs are made of colorful digital building blocks that they can develop their own games in the very first hours. This way they learn quickly the way they think about programming, they don't need long theoretical education.
After an instant success experience, the learners themselves become more interested in more sophisticated programming languages as they want to develop even more exciting games, even more robust robots or even more beautiful 3D animations. (At the same time, color blocks that make it easier for them to understand are also available to them if they want to redeem.)
The method is so effective that more than 19,000 students have signed up at Logiscool internationally; this autumn, the first schools will open after overseas - in Florida and Mexico - after Europe.
However, programming is not just about the experience, because there is no program without bug, that is, who is learning to program will make a lot of mistakes. So, the Logiscool's pedagogy is that children do not live up to mistakes as a personal failure, but as a task to be solved.
As learners go over one or more obstacles, they become more persistent, their self-confidence, their problem-solving ability and their creativity grow. That's why Logiscool is looking forward not only to future programmers, but to all children who want to turn the digital world into their own for the benefit of their own. Their role models are Estonia and Finland, where they have already incorporated programming into primary school curriculum.
(Source: marmalade.co.uk; hirado.com | Image: flickr.com)