The ALaDDIn project, proposed by Carlo Bellettini, Violetta Lonati, Dario Malchiodi, Mattia Monga, Anna Morpurgo and Massimo Santini, from the ALaDDIn working group at the Computer Science Department, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, is the winner of the 2016 Informatics Europe Best Practices in Education Award. “ALaDDIn was selected for the clear positive changes the project brought about in pupils' conception of computing. It shows that it can be fun to tackle challenging problems through computational thinking”, comments Michael E. Caspersen, Professor at Aarhus University and Chair of this year`s Award Committee. “It is particularly interesting that pupils recognise the necessity of precision and appreciate it as an important asset, not as an inappropriate constraint imposed by teachers.”
Concept
The project “was selected for the clear positive changes the project brought about in pupils' conception of computing. It shows that it can be fun to tackle challenging problems through computational thinking”, comments Michael E. Caspersen, Professor at Aarhus University and Chair of this year`s Award Committee. “It is particularly interesting that pupils recognise the necessity of precision and appreciate it as an important asset, not as an inappropriate constraint imposed by teachers.”
ALaDDIn was selected for the clear positive changes the project brought about in pupils’ conception of computing. It shows that it can be fun to tackle challenging problems through comput. thinking.
Award or Honor
RDF description of Best Practices in Education Award - http://irises.unimi.it/resource/prize/478