ACCL

About Us

One percent of African children leave school with basic coding skills.

All if not many of all the professions in the world have been or are going to be affected by the coding and computer science evolution.

These range from science to art, to banking, insurance, financial services, healthcare, law, communications and engineering.

Our goal Africa Creative Coding and Learning Foundation (ACCL Foundation) is to expand the availability of digital wisdom to children through creative learning and fun coding tools.

4P’s of Creative Learning

Projects

Creating projects is the central activity in the community

Passion

When people work on projects they care about, they’re willing to work longer and harder.

Peers

Creativity is a social process, with people collaborating, sharing, and building on one another’s work.

Play

Scratch is designed to support playful experimentation as a pathway to creativity.

Our Programmes

Monthly student and educator meetups

This includes:

Webinars and talks: participation in a monthly webinar for tinkering activities, experience-sharing, discussions, and special talks by renowned practitioners.

Translations

Translating educator materials to local languages to allow for more local and cultural engagement.

First translation: Creative Learning Guide - Coming soon

Open-source curricula development

Contribution to an open-source library of curricular resources for maker education, including for “making at home” activities.

Experience sharing

Educators will have access to a website where they will contribute short reflective journal entries, and receive feedback from other fellows, teachers, and researchers.

Educators will also generate at least three public blog posts per year, which will be publicized to other educational media outlets.

Magazine

Educators will contribute to a magazine that will collect maker education stories, practices and cases focused on play in the classroom and mainstreaming play in education.

Educators will also generate at least three public blog posts per year, which will be publicized to other educational media outlets.

HOST OF FIRST EVER SCRATCH CONFERENCE IN AFRICA-In October 2019, ACCL

Foundation hosted the
1 st ever Scratch Conference in Africa. This event had over 300 participants who over a period of 3-days
interacted in various panel discussions, workshops, talks and engagements of how best to bring digital
literacy to the fore-front of education in Africa.

Environment

Creative Learning

Teachers