App development: A special online program for children and teens
This is of course not the first time that you are hearing about the dangers of the age of computers and the internet. Researchers and psychologists warn about the destructive influence of too much “screen time”. There are those who describe addiction to the computer and content on the web as an epidemic which threatens children’s healthy development in the areas of thinking and expression, as well as in the personal and social spheres. So what do we do? Cut the children off from the computer? From the internet? From their smartphones? How possible is that?
Here at Tekkie Uni we have adopted a different approach in order to deal with this issue. Similar to a vaccination, in order to overcome the dangers of a computer, we use the computer itself. When children learn to program, their attitude toward the computer does a 180-degree turnaround; from being passive to active. They go from being “addicted” users that have no real control over the content they get from the computer, to being able to determine for themselves what will happen there.
To program is to be able to create whole worlds from nothing. This is an amazing and rare ability. The computer can go from being a threat to a tool with amazing potential for development, creativity and innovation. This is exactly what we do in our programming courses: we give children the knowledge and tools which allows them to think, to plan, and to work in a team to solve problems and to bring their ideas to fruition. In programming, and in life.
If you want your children to take part in our innovative program, leave your details and we will get back to you as soon as possible to give you more information about enrollment.
Code is a means of creative expression. We empower students to build apps that are important to them, and to actively lead the project from A to Z.