Following up my presentations in 2007 at Naace in Feltham ‘The Importance of Computing as a Specialist Subject in Schools‘ and in 2010 at Computing@School in Birmingham ‘Computing at School‘, I am hosting a table at Collabor8 4 Change at BETT 2012 this year . Titled ‘Conceptual framework for computing‘ it is planned to be [...]
Collabor8 4 Change – Conceptual framework for Computing
January 12th, 2012 1 Comment
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Computing at School
June 24th, 2011 2 Comments
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 [...]
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The Importance of Computing as a Specialist Subject in Schools
September 29th, 2007 No Comments
Shared a platform with Gillian Lovegrove on this topic at the Naace All-Members Conference at Cisco in Feltham. I enjoyed the relatively easy task of listing some of the arguments for computing’s contribution to the wealth of human knowledge: computing > arithmetic – it is also the engine room of the social network / Web [...]
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