Collective residencies / Educational programming and robotics VI / Olot
JOSÉ GARCÍA
From Thursday, 4 May 2023 to Thursday, 11 May 2023
Bio
José García studied Telecommunications Engineering at the UPC. He started in the programming world preparing multimedia applications for CD and DVD. In 2007 he started at Citilab, where he participates in the beginnings of the application of block visual programming, like Scratch, in the educational world. In 2010 he participated in the creation of S4A (Scratch for Arduino) within the Edutec project. In 2013 he is involved in the organization of the Scratch Conference. He also collaborates with european projects like Mind the Gap, Jam Today and Pelars.
He currently coordinates the education area at Citilab and the Edulab project, which promotes the teaching of programming and robotics as a transversal language to understand and relate to technology and to develop critical thinking and creativity in schools.
Project
We will meet in Faberllull Olot a passionate group of teachers, designers and creators of educational tools from around the world to promote these creative learnings in educational programming and robotics. Many of us already share projects during the year, from distant locations, enjoying the technologies that allow us to work remotely and asynchronously, but the personal and intensive meeting that Faberllull Olot offers us is an invaluable gift.