Master students of the Digital Pedagogy and Cognitive Technologies program implement applied projects

11:30, October 31, 2022

First-year students of the educational program “Digital Pedagogy and Cognitive Technologies” at the beginning of the academic year received an assignment to implement two projects from the partner of the educational program - the Center for Digital Education “IT-cube” Uralmash.

The IT-Cube digital education center teaches children from 8 to 17 years old innovative technical programs - robotics, programming languages, big data, mobile application development, work in virtual reality. Since the activity of “IT-Cube” is related to the development of programming skills, work in information systems, technical creativity, the request for a project for a master's program is in the field of technology using the advantages of an electronic educational environment, as well as innovative formats of educational interaction.

As part of the project “Digital Content for Mastering the Additional General Educational General Development Program of a Technical Focus”, the children are developing an electronic course in two disciplines of the center - “Graphic Design in Adobe Illustrator” and “Basics of Working in Python”. The applied value of this project is to increase the availability of IT-Cube classes for students who are on remote learning, for students to repeat the material after classes, for students located in other settlements, remote areas, as well as to automate the mechanisms for checking and collecting assignments.

The second project consists in the preparation, organization and conduct of the educational program of the IT-startup event by students. The event is held for the second time and is aimed at attracting schoolchildren to innovative technical creativity, who, after selection and preparation for defense, will present their ideas, and possibly develop a prototype of their project. More than 1,000 students from schools in the Ordzhonikidzevsky district are expected to participate in the IT-startup event. Students of the UrIH UrFU develop the concept of the event, organize the collection of ideas, develop the program of the event, and prepare the concept and design of the poster and questionnaires for collecting ideas. In addition, students will hold a series of master classes for the finalists on preparing the defense of the project, effective self-presentation, and will give a lecture on project activities.