Why don’t you get your class to create a wonderful coding project and Participate in the Coding Cup 2018? Details here: http://www.code-your-life.org/Mitmachen/1340_CodingCup_2018.htm
Coding combines literacy, numeracy and creative skills, teaches problem solving and algorithmic thinking (and is great fun). Teachers, ask your students. Students, ask your teachers! Parents, bring in your expertise and host a workshop...
Some useful links and easy to use programs can be found here:
- To learn and practice coding basics for everyone: https://code.org
- First coding steps: Scratch, https://scratch.mit.edu/
- Basic Scratch ideas: https://medium.com/scratchfoundation-blog/10-things-to-try-right-now-with-your-child-on-scratch-and-scratchjr-defd7f8ad0d1
- For older students, teachers and parents: Codecadeny offers great free learning videos and entire courses with hands-on learning, on for instance HTML, Java, Python, Ruby, Sql: https://www.codecademy.com/
If you want to work with a class set of Calliopes, contact Annemieke Akkermans (details).