My Learning to Code books: the journey
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 »Tag: primary
Dear Nicky Morgan, here’s the problem with 100%.
In response to Nicky Morgan’s ‘war on illiteracy and innumeracy’ announcement – 140 characters just wasn’t enough. Dear Nicky Morgan, We seem to have a lot […]
Continue reading »
Evaluating digital content: 6 resources for teachers
Teaching responsible Internet use has always been been important and as of September 2014 teaching children to ‘be discerning in evaluating digital content’ officially became […]
Continue reading »
#Nurture1415 – thinglink style
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 »
#MindfulBreaktime: a challenge for busy teachers
I’ve toyed with writing a post about mindfulness for a while because I felt the topic was perhaps a little too ‘woo woo’ for a […]
Continue reading »
Sequence, selection, Google Forms and stories
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 »
Start with why: motivation for September and beyond?
September is just around the corner and for some teachers it can be hard to gear themselves up for a new year after the summer holidays – myself included […]
Continue reading »
Quick thoughts and questions about research
I’m increasingly fascinated by it and try to use it to inform my decisions at school more and more, but I think using research, even […]
Continue reading »
How to turn an ICT project into a computing one
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 »
15 second computing: videos 1–4
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 »