Since 2018, the teacher Suleica F. Biesdorf Kretzer has been developing pedagogical practices on sustainability in the ECOPET Júnior project, in which 5th year students develop actions in the community such as:
collecting garbage on the beach in Coqueiros
collecting plastic bottle caps in the community and disseminating the ECOPET volunteers project, which aims at collecting plastic bootle caps that are sold for recycling and from the money castrations of abandoned animals (dogs and cats) are paid.
Continuing the actions of 2018 with the 5th year students in 2019 a new practice was added as a result of the master thesis in Education (PPGE/UFSC) of Giselle Araújo e Silva de Medeiros, an educational technology teacher of the municipal network in Florianópolis focusing on the development of mobile applications in K-12 supported by the initiative Computação na Escola/INCoD/INE/UFSC.
As part of this project the students learned basic computing and visual design concepts and applied them in the development of a mobile application to visualize ECOPET’s collection points.
At the end of the project students presented the results at a public educational space at the IFSC, leaving the school space to integrate another educational environment. During this event, the 5th and 6th year students presented the results of the project through videos and oral presentations: students from the morning class reported on the experience of developing an app and the students from the afternoon period reported the creation of a flyer about the ECOPET project.
Students of the 9th year of the Carvalhal School, participants of the Young Programming Tutors project, contributed with programming and design knowledge to finalize the app.
Also present were the president of ECOPET organization, Lisandro Nunes Ferreira and Claire Knapp Greghi, a member of the ECOPET volunteer team.
Soon the app developed by the students will be launched!
Students of the 7th. grade of Electronic Technician integrated course of Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina (IFSC) – Campus Florianópolis learned how to develop an IoT app with App Inventor.
In a workshop taught by student Michel Miola, under the supervision of IFSC professor Fernando Pacheco, students learned to implement an app integrated with an IoT device that receives data from temperature and humidity sensors and triggers visual and audible alarms.
The implementation of the components, the IoT server and the instructional material are results of the final project of the student of Information Systems Michel Miola.
Software components and material will be available for download on the Computação na Escola website.
Apps Programming Workshops for middle school students, conducted by the volunteer Mentors and supported by Young Tutors, teaching computing to more than 60 school students
Likewise, the participation and involvement of the teachers and the administration of the Escola Básica Almirante Carvalhal were fundamental for the success of the project.
Companies/organizations interested in sponsoring other projects of Young Programming Tutors can contact the initiative Computação na Escola via telephone (48) 3721-7380 / (48) 3721-4715 or email: computacaonaescola @ incod.ufsc.br
Assisted by professors and researchers of the Computação na Escola and with support of professional volunteers of the company Involves Tecnologia , the Young Tutors developed their own apps, seeking to solve problems in their local community. In addition to learning computer concepts by programming apps, Young Tutors have also developed important 21st century skills such as creativity and innovation, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration.
Find more information about the developed apps:
App: Achei o seu Emprego
The app “Achei o seu Emprego” helps find a job. Companies can register their job opportunities and interested can look for job opportunities.
This project is being coordinated by the Computação na Escola Initiative – INCoD/INE/CTC/UFSC, sponsored by Involves Tecnologia e Inovação , a software company based in Florianópolis/SC – Brazil.
Companies/organizations interested in sponsoring other Young Tutors projects can contact the Computação na Escola initiative: Telephones: +55 48 3721-7380 / +55 48 3721-4715 or via email: computacaonaescola@incod.ufsc.br
The students of the 2018 Youth Programming Tutors project are being trained for app development at the Escola Básica Almirante Carvalhal .
During this hands-on training, Young Tutors learn about the process of developing apps with App Inventor, software engineering practices, Design Thinking and UI design, and apply these concepts directly developing their own apps in order to solve real-world problems in their community.
The trainings are given by the team of the Computação na Escola/INCoD of the Department of Informatics and Statistics/UFSC with the support of Volunteer Mentors of the sponsor company Involves Technology and Innovation.
Companies/organizations interested in sponsoring other projects of Young Tutors please contact the Computing in School initiative:
Phones: (48) 3721-7380 /(48) 3721-4715 or email: computacaonaescola@incod.ufsc.br
A BIG THANK YOU to all volunteer mentors from Involves Tecnologia e Inovação, who were involved in the project Young Programming Tutors of the initivative Computing in School/INCoD/INE/UFSC. Sharing your knowledge and work experience was essential.
You are awesome!
Anderson Pereira, Daniela Silveira, Diogo Viana, Fernando Vasconcellos, Gabriel Werlich, Luana Viergutz, Neri Burato, Paulo Martins, Rafael Haviaras, Rodrigo Gomes
More than 50 elementary school students from Almirante Carvalhal Elementary School have had the opportunity to participate in an app programming workshop.
As part of the Young Tutors 2018 project activities, mobile application programming workshops for elementary school students are being applied at Almirante Carvalhal Elementary School by Young Tutors in conjunction with Volunteer Mentors, supported by members of the Computação na Escola and the school’s Educational Technology teachers.
At these three-hour-long workshops, participating students learn how to develop an app “Encontre-me” that lets the user share the his/her location. Participants have the opportunity to first get in touch with mobile programming, learn programming concepts and computational thinking, and leave the workshop taking their first app home!
These workshops are part of the 2018 Youung Tutors project, coordinated by the initiative Computação na Escola / INCoD / INE / UFSC and sponsored by the company Involves Technologia e Inovação. Aiming at teaching computing in elementary education in Brazilian schools, the objective of the project is to train Young Tutors (elementary students) and Volunteer Mentors (IT professionals) to program mobile applications. These Young Tutors and Volunteer Mentors are supporting the teaching of computing in public schools with the goal of reaching more students. The project also contributes to the training of Young Tutors in the area of computing, providing learning and contact with professionals of the area, bringing practical experience to the participants.
Companies / organizations interested in sponsoring other projects of Young Tutors can contact the Computing in School initiative by phone (48) 3721-7380 / (48) 3721-4715 or via email: computacaonaescola@incod.ufsc.br
SplashCode is a low-budget board game to reinforce the teaching of basic algorithms and programming concepts.
Core concepts: Algorithms and Programming
Educational stage: Middle school
The goal of the game SplashCode is to demonstrate algorithm and programming concepts as part of computational thinking. After playing the game school students will be able to:
Decompose the steps needed to solve a problem in a precise sequence of instructions.
Recognize that an algorithm is a set of step-by-step instructions to complete tasks.
The game was developed in a systematic way following an instructional design process, and applied and evaluated in a Brazilian public middle school. First results indicate that the game can have a positive impact on motivation, user experience, and student learning, as well as contribute positively to social interaction, relevance and fun, providing a pleasant, playful, efficient and effective learning experience. The game was also evaluated very positively regarding usability facilitating understanding.
For comments, future game release suggestions, content updates/corrections, and general information, please contact us at computacaonaescola@incod.ufsc.br.
Volunteer Mentors and Young Tutors of the Young Programming Tutors 2018 edition were received by the Computação na Escola Team in the Department of Informatics and Statistics/CTC/UFSC for an afternoon of training and integration. This is one of the first steps in the training of Young Tutors to support and disseminate computer learning in the school where they study.
In this training, ten students from Almirante Carvalhal Elementary School , selected as Young Tutors and eight Volunteer Mentors from the sponsoring company Involves Tecnologia e Inovação , participated in an afternoon of training with technical and pedagogical content. Also participating were the school’s Educational Technology teacher, who accompanies the students in the project and other teachers and students involved.
During this initial training the participants learned basic concepts of computational thinking, as well as making a first App with App Inventor.
The project is being coordinated by the Computação na Escola/INCoD/INE/UFSC, dedicated to providing all students of Basic Education with the opportunity to learn computing. This project is being sponsored by Involves Tecnologia e Inovação, a software company based in Florianópolis/SC.
Companies/organizations interested in sponsoring other projects of Young Tutors may contact the Computing in School initiative:
Telephones: (48) 3721-7380 / (48) 3721-4715 or via email: computacaonaescola@incod.ufsc.br
