
Coding Platform Approved For Schools; All You Need To Know
After the curriculum developer approved Kodris Africa to provide the service, primary and secondary school students will soon begin taking coding classes.
Individuals and schools can both enroll in the program, which is available on their website for a fee.
According to Mugumo Munene, CEO of Kodris, schools can have the package divided among the total number of students.
Munene stated that once divided, the fees range between Sh250 and Sh300 per student to obtain the entire package.
“If an individual wants to get the package for coding, they can pay Sh17, 000 annually,” Munene said.
The curriculum is divided into grades or forms.
The Kodris curriculum was developed in collaboration with education departments at internationally renowned universities.
Pearson, one of the world’s largest education companies, has also accredited it.
This means that once you finish your course, your qualifications will be accepted globally.
Because of the platform’s acceptance by several tech companies, it employs java-script and Python programming.
“If you look at most big companies, they use Python and also it has easier to learn syntax compared to others,” Munene said.
When a user visits the website, Kodris employs block mode, which allows you to create algorithms using the provided blocks.
Because of its drag-and-drop functionality, this method is better suited for younger students.
Students attempt to complete the tasks assigned to them by collecting the food in the scenes with the assistance of Kodris Africa.
They also move the blocks to feed bananas to monkeys on the opposite side of the monkey.
In some scenes, the supporting characters assist them, while in others, the obstructing characters cause them difficulty.
The second method is known as Code mode, and it allows for text-based coding in accordance with the syntax rules of the programming language.
Here, the students are encouraged to use codes because it will help them improve their programming skills.
Munene also mentioned that students can be tracked to see how they arrived at their solutions.
“A student might have the right answer but they used a longer method, which took a lot of time,” he said.
Once the learner has completed the challenge, the site awards them with a number of stars.
The lowest ranking is one star, and the highest is three stars.
If a parent chooses to pay for their child individually, they will also benefit from the classes.
Parents will have learned five important skills by the end of the course: algorithmic thinking, productivity, analytical thinking, problem-solving, and design thinking.
Munene also stated that a teacher does not need to be an IT “guru” to teach coding through the website.
“We have a teacher’s guide on the website so the teacher will guide students using the content available.”
The guide provides access to a variety of online or classroom activities for learners, as well as examples and solutions to tasks in the Kodris Africa platform.
Teachers can track their students’ progress and see how many stars each student has earned by going to the teacher’s dashboard.
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The ICT Authority and the Ministry of Education will select the first batch of pilot public schools through the Digital Literacy Programme Technical Implementing Committee.
The move is expected to play a significant role in DLP content deployment.
DLP has resulted in the government distributing over 1.2 million laptops to students across the country.
“Now that KICD has approved content that can be used with this infrastructure, we will select schools where we will pilot this curriculum to support content in the country,” ICTA acting chief executive Kipronoh Ronoh.
Coding Platform Approved For Schools; All You Need To Know