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Recently, I’ve realised my motto regarding primary computing seems to have become ‘concepts first, language second.’ By that I mean, initially at least, we should […]
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Recently, I’ve realised my motto regarding primary computing seems to have become ‘concepts first, language second.’ By that I mean, initially at least, we should […]
Continue reading »One evening last week, I came home from work to the best package – a batch of my new books, the Learn to Code series. […]
Continue reading »I’ve been tinkering recently with a project that combines two of the key elements of computer science – sequence and selection – and literacy. Sequence […]
Continue reading »This week, I ran two sessions at Shireland Teaching School Alliance for local ICT Coordinators on my Switched On Computing resource and preparing for the […]
Continue reading »Like me, I’m sure you’re pretty time poor – it’s the default setting for most teachers. So I was thinking, how could I help teachers […]
Continue reading »I was lucky enough to be one of 20-odd educators to be selected to take part in the first ever Raspberry PiCademy that took place last […]
Continue reading »It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. – Albert Einstein When I was preparing activities for the UK […]
Continue reading »This week, 3rd–9th March, is the UK Hour of Code week (as well as Book Week, bad timing, anyway…) with the main aim being to […]
Continue reading »On Wednesday I presented at a very different sort of conference compared to what I’m used to. Different because the audience wasn’t predominantly teachers or […]
Continue reading »When I first took a look at the new computing programme of study I was a tad worried. Mainly because ‘algorithm’ was the first word […]
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