No Need To Pinkify Technology Subjects For Girls It’s time to avoid using female-friendly stereotypes in order to encourage girls into enjoying Information and Communications Technology (ICT) or computing concepts. Computer science within UK schools is in an interesting position […]
Coding The Caesar Cipher – The Caesar Cipher is one of the simplest, and oldest, systems for cryptography. Let’s see how the Caesar Cipher can be implemented very simply in Python. One of the simplest methods to create secret messages […]
Tangible Programming in Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and Key Stage 1 (KS1). Ever wonder how best to teach programming to Reception and Key Stage 1 children in a tangible manner – read on to find out more about Cubetto, […]
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 […]
Schools are full of expertise in teaching pupils, but how do we apply the science of learning to help develop computer science teachers? Teachers spend hours sitting in training sessions, but how much of this sticks? How much feels useful? […]
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 […]
Royal Society Report The ‘After the reboot’ report finds challenges still exist in computing education. Who Are The Royal Society? The Royal Society is the UK’s national science academy, a fellowship of scientists, and the oldest scientific academy still in […]
The MIT App Inventor 2 Android app development tool is a good introduction to Android app development for school children used to using visual programming languages like Scratch and Blockly which teach programming concepts using drag n drop coding blocks. […]
National Curriculum in England: computing programmes of study Purpose Computing Programmes of Study A high-quality computing education equips pupils to use computational thinking and creativity to understand and change the world. Computing has deep links with mathematics, science and design […]
Emotions in Education : Success of a CoderDojo Learning is always at its best an emotional experience. Complex tasks can easily result in feelings of frustration, anger, and helplessness that are highly demotivating. A sense of pride, admiration or excitement […]
