Shaping our children's education in computing
summary
England rewrites its school computing curriculum onto two sides of A4, yet only about one in ten students takes GCSE computer science and teachers lack qualifications. Concrete outputs: a national curriculum emphasizing logic, algorithms and programming; teacher-trainer networks and CPD; resources from the Raspberry Pi foundation and the Hello World magazine; and a formative-assessment effort called Project Quantum that already crowdsources roughly 8,000 questions to diagnose misconceptions and scale teacher feedback.
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chapters (45)
- 0:00What do I care about
- 0:30Our children are incredibly labor intensive
- 1:56It is good to frame things in an ambitious way
- 2:36Subject disciplines and skills
- 3:07What has happened in computing
- 3:40Too much focus on technology
- 3:55Bring discipline back into the subject
- 4:31Fleshing it out
- 4:47Computer Science
- 5:10Information
- 5:52Computation
- 6:56Sorting algorithms
- 7:34Encouraging experimentation
- 8:27Communication
- 9:32Interdisciplinary
- 10:45Myths
- 12:11Coding
- 12:31Programming
- 15:41A spectrum of careers
- 16:05Tomorrows jobs
- 16:41Two pillars
- 20:03National Curriculum
- 20:46Teachers
- 21:23How did we get there
- 22:46What has happened
- 23:52Exams
- 24:02Teacher recruitment
- 26:19Central Resources
- 27:24High Stakes Exams
- 28:01Getting alongside teachers
- 29:08Substantive training
- 29:44Research
- 31:11Formative Assessment
- 32:43Online Corpus
- 33:29Project Quantum
- 34:26Assessment experts
- 36:09Creative Commons license
- 37:04Informal slogan
- 37:58Roll up your sleeves
- 38:45Amazing organisations
- 39:48Being proactive
- 41:20One tiny cameo
- 41:57Selfesteem
- 42:34Its about our children
- 43:16Questions
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