Digital Minds
One shared story world, animated block by block
Each child builds their own avatar and house; the groups become neighborhoods of one shared city, growing session by session on the same digital whiteboard.
- School level
- Primary school
- Age
- 8-11 years old
- Structure
- 30 hours over 8 sessions, one workstation per child, ages 8-11.
The programme
The True Name and the house
4hDigital awareness and construction of the avatar, first on paper and then on the digital whiteboard.
The network and the shared world
4hNetworks, data, privacy and security, with the composition of the collective plan.
The broken transmission
4hTeam activity on routing, reassembly and verification of a transmission split into packets.
Animating the world
4hTranslation of the designed environment into animation through block programming.
Memory, choice and repair
4hIntroduction of variables and conditions for memory and reaction to events.
Giving the tool its context
4hCompletion of the work with the assisted generation tool, under the group's direction.
Curating and editing
4hSelection and reworking of the generated material, with the final edit.
The Premiere
2hScreening of the works and observation of the settlement as a single representation.
The outcome
An animated short film per group, screened on the final day.
For the school
- The collaborative digital whiteboard and the block programming environment run in a browser, with no personal email addresses.
- The assisted generation tool is used under the group's direction and never independently by the pupils.
- Every concept is first addressed through a physical activity and only then transferred to the screen; peer support is verbal, without acting directly on another pupil's workstation.
Bringing this programme to your school
This page can be shared with the school leadership without sending the whole catalogue. A twenty-minute conversation defines the calendar, the number of sessions and the adjustments the institute’s context requires.