I presented at the third annual Computing at School conference, reporting Nili Naveh’s research in a seminar I proposed to discuss the research into childrens’ conceptions in computing. The central issue is the contrast in the attention paid to children’s conceptual development in maths and science compared to computing. In maths and science, research has [...]
Entries from June 2011
Computing at School
June 24th, 2011 2 Comments
Tags: computing · conference · learning · research
Old lobster almost boiled
June 3rd, 2011 1 Comment
The second annual Learning on the Beach unconference #lob11 has just scattered – I am blown away, boiled, invigorated and inundated – and that was just the weather. We were a self-select group of ‘old lobsters’ like me @richardmillwood and some fresh faces like @squiggle7 – the value of this mix in challenging the norms [...]
Tags: conference · delight · ideas · learning · well-being