
New challenges: ed tech columnist
I’m really chuffed to share that I’m going to have an ed tech column in The TES from September. Having the freedom to write about […]
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I’m really chuffed to share that I’m going to have an ed tech column in The TES from September. Having the freedom to write about […]
Continue reading »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 »It’s that time of year again: time to reflect on the highlights of the year just gone and hopes for 2015. Five of each this […]
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 »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 »BETT 2014 was quite a different experience for me: as the author of ‘Switched on Computing: take your first easy steps with Microsoft‘, I was […]
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