Supporting European Code Week since day one, Apple works with educators, students, policymakers and coding enthusiasts from all over Europe to celebrate problem solving, creativity and collaboration skills through coding.
Apple to help educators celebrate European Code Week Celebrating You Instructor Guide and Inclusive App Design prepared the event.
Personalized for students to celebrate a place or tradition they hold important, Celebrating You features an introductory project that lets students write code for their own sample app in Swift Playgrounds.
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The guide has been translated into the languages of 18 countries in the region. For the first time, Ukrainian is among these languages. The accompanying Inclusive App Design guide helps students turn their passions and ideas into apps that consider inclusiveness and accessibility.
Believing that the effective use of technology can unlock the potential of all students, Apple has worked with teachers for more than four decades.
From the new Apple Education Community to Everyone Can Code resources to the Swift Playgrounds app, Apple and its instructors have personally witnessed how creativity through coding can increase student engagement and improve learning outcomes.
Swift Playgrounds takes students from the first line of code they write to developing their first app with Apple’s programming language, Swift. Apple’s Everyone Can Code resources introduce students to the concepts behind code and provide practice in coding and problem solving through on-device exercises.
Built-in accessibility features on iPad allow blind or visually impaired students to solve coding puzzles with tactile graphics that can be printed in embossed Braille to support students of all skill levels.
Chiara Franceschini, a mathematics and physics teacher at the Liceo Scientifico Bonsignori high school in Remedello, Italy, says:
“Coding can improve student development in many ways, including adaptability, patience and resourcefulness.” Franceschini is also learning to code with her students, with the support of Apple Distinguished Educator Giovanna Busconi. “Thanks to Swift Playgrounds, we can learn together. Every problem can be solved in many different ways.
That’s why students need to talk to each other about the solution logic and approach they’re taking while writing code. This experience, which adds so much to everyone, makes my students understand that there is no shame in asking questions, and that problems can be solved creatively by working together.”
The number of Today at Apple events is increasing!
Apple is making it easier than ever for customers to learn to code by doubling the number of Meet Swift events available in stores across Europe during Code Week. This event is offered year-round as part of Apple’s Today at Apple program.
Today at Apple is a Creative Pro-led program at all Apple Stores that helps customers learn how to develop their creative projects and artistic passions using Apple products. Over the past five years, Apple has hosted more than 60,000 Today at Apple coding events across the region, both online and in person.