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Computing cartoons

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Claire Lotriet

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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My Learning to Code books: the journey

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Claire Lotriet

One evening last week, I came home from work to the best package – a batch of my new books, the Learn to Code series. […]

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Sequence, selection, Google Forms and stories

Posted on October 1, 2014 by Claire Lotriet

I’ve been tinkering recently with a project that combines two of the key elements of computer science – sequence and selection – and literacy. Sequence […]

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How to turn an ICT project into a computing one

Posted on June 14, 2014 by Claire Lotriet

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 […]

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15 second computing: videos 1–4

Posted on May 30, 2014 by Claire Lotriet

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 […]

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Getting physical: computing at Raspberry Pi Towers

Posted on April 19, 2014 by Claire Lotriet

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 […]

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Programming and perseverance: is there a connection?

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Claire Lotriet

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 […]

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Unplugged at the Hour of Code launch

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Claire Lotriet

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 […]

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Westminster Education Forum: the big message about computing

Posted on March 2, 2014 by Claire Lotriet

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 […]

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A is for Algorithm: the A-word in three steps

Posted on August 30, 2013 by Claire Lotriet

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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