What Age Can Coding be Taught to Primary School Students?
Posted on 4th June 2018 in Computing at School, Creative Commons Attribution, Scratch Programming Language
Question: At what age can a primary school teacher realistically start teaching coding to primary school students? When to Teach Coding in Primary Schools The short answer is any age, the UK National Curriculum introduces coding to KS1 students. How […]
Teaching Advanced Programming Concepts with Scratch & ScratchJr
Posted on 21st May 2018 in Computing at School, Creative Commons Attribution, Scratch Programming Language
Flow Control In Primary Programming: In primary programming, do learners need to understand the flow of control of their program? The National Curriculum in England KS1 and KS2 Computing programmes of study doesn’t mention the need to teach pupils the […]
Scratch 3 Supports Micro:Bit, Tablets, and SmartPhones
Posted on 9th May 2018 in Creative Commons Attribution, Scratch Programming Language
The new version of Scratch to support micro:bit, tablets, and smartphones. The MIT Scratch Team is due to launch version 3.0 of its popular educational programming tool this August. Scratch is a visual programming language that enables students to learn the basics […]
EduBlocks Programming Tool – Transition from Scratch to Python
Posted on 8th May 2018 in Google's Blockly Programming Language, Scratch Programming Language
EduBlocks is a visual block based programming tool built by Josh Lowe from the Google Blockly visual coding language. EduBlocks was created to help teachers transition students from simple block based code (like Scratch blocks) to text based programming languages […]
Scratch for Primary Schools
Posted on 25th April 2018 in Computing at School, Scratch Programming Language
In 2014 primary school children in the UK were introduced to the principles of computer programming/coding via the new UK National Curriculum. The UK government finally recognized the importance of coding skills for young children who will be the next […]
