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A professor and the academic secretary participated in “Expoaprende”

October 31, 2013
Dr. Inés Kereki, Professor of Programming in the School of Engineering, and Assistant Professor Víctor Paulós, Academic Secretary of the school, participated on October 17 and 18, 2013, in the “Expoaprende” exhibition, organized by Plan Ceibal. The event took place at the Sodre National Auditorium “Dra. Adela Reta.” During the event, they worked with Dr. Mitchel Resnick, LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research and Academic Head of the Media Arts and Sciences programme the Group Lifelong Kindergarten of the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Media Lab. Professor Resnick is the creator of Scratch, a visual and intuitive programming learning system designed for children and adolescents, which is installed on the “Ceibalitas” distributed by Plan Ceibal to elementary and secondary school students across the country.

Dr. Resnick had the opportunity to learn about the Scratch online course developed by the faculty for Plan Ceibal in a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) format on the organization’s “Crea” educational platform. Currently, more than 1,000 young people aged 12 to 17 and 165 teachers are taking the course as part of the first phase for a pilot group of participants.