The text of my welcome from the programme for the 2013 Naace Conference. It has been an interesting year for those concerned with advancing education through technology. The relentless pressure of Moore’s Law makes for a fresh wave of devices…
We’ve had some content on web-development on our primary teacher training programmes at Roehampton since before my time, but this is becoming a more significant part of our work, and increasingly a mode for assessed work these days. In the…
I wrote recently about the new draft National Curriculum in general, which shows a quite distinct shift from skills to knowledge, but perhaps not quite so far as understanding. Looking now at the new computing curriculum, knowledge certainly takes us…
A short summary of the change from ICT to computing at KS1-3, written for Rising Stars’ news blog, and posted originally at http://www.risingstars-uk.com/blog/?p=799. This is really quite radical change to the curriculum, with a much stronger focus on programming and…
Thursday saw Mr Gove publish the draft of a new National Curriculum for English schools. Not all English schools, of course, which means that the ideal of ‘entitlement’ which underpinned the whole project from Kenneth Baker’s time has been lost…
I don’t think many would doubt that learning through making things, ideally for an audience of other people, is a highly effective way of learning in ICT (including CS) in schools. Papert made this case some time ago now. I…
So many of the conversations I’ve had with really interesting people at and around BETT have focussed on learning through making, ie Papert’s constructionism: constructivism’s connotation of learning as “building knowledge structures” … happens especially felicitously in a context where…
I think there are many of us delighted by the announcement, timed to coincide with the start of BETT 2013, that computer science joins the other sciences as part of the list for the English Baccalaureate. I’ve no doubt that…
A post prompted by a discussion on the Mirandanet discussion list asking for software suggestions for developing adaptive learning materials. I’m still not quite sure how I feel about adaptive learning, and I think this is down to some concerns…
I’ve been in a couple of interesting meetings this week, both with teachers’ CPD high up the agenda. This certainly seems a priority for many as we move to a position with far more computer science in schools’ ICT. The…
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