Sabotage: Teach Debugging By Stealth | Teach Computing. The majority of my work at the moment is supporting ICT teachers who want to introduce and develop Computing within their own curriculum ahead of the changes planned for September 2014. Throughout my work with other teachers, I’ve been sharing some of the pedagogic devices and strategies I’ve been using with the aim of ensuring that their teaching of Computing is engaging and inspiring. One such game that I’ve developed with my classes I call ‘Sabotage’. I’ve discovered that this can be used in a whole variety of ways, but to help you develop an understanding of it I will attempt to describe just one simple example for you. The Problem: I found when I first moved from teaching Scratch (a visual programming language) to Python (a text-based programming language) that children became very frustrated with the high numbers of syntax errors which prevented their scripts from working.
Developing A Solution: The Solution: So, now we have progressed to playing Sabotage. 1. The Result: Like this: Junior Computer Science. Junior Computer Science. Faux Paw the Techno Cat. As a caring educator, you can equip your students to be ahead of the curve and understand early on the intricacies of new media and cybersafety. Students spend half of their waking hours connected to digital devices—impacting their reputations, learning opportunities, and futures. Faux Paw the Websurfing Techno Cat series has been created by a team of leading child psychologists, educators, and law enforcement.
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Maths. ICT curriculum. Specific apps and technology. E-safety. Child centred. Digital leaders. Sway Grantham | Just a teacher trying to make a difference for her students… Blogs. Learning • ingenuity • research • policy • design • technology • delight • (+ sailing!) Back to their Future. Literacy. Archives alive - Newcastle University Library. Digital literacy project part 1. I was asked recently to participate in a digital literacy project at the UEA with other Norfolk teachers. This immediately excited me as it not only includes areas of teaching that I am passionate about, but also came at a time when ICT and literacy have become even more prominent in my working life.
I have been employed by cluster schools to provide outreach for ICT, but with a strong emphasis on writing as it an area within the cluster targeted for development. I am also working with a fellow 'ex-AST' to put together an 'Inspiring Writing' blog, though credit must be given to Jenni for doing a much larger chunk of the work so far (this is a work in progress, not a fully polished site). The project The project has been inspired by Kate Pullinger, author of the innovative transmedia story Inanimate Alice, and put together by PGCE lecturers (Dr) Paul and Jeni. The group Kate Pullinger Kate introduced her Inanimate Alice work and resources, which we had varying degrees of familiarity with. Digital literacy project part 1. Inanimate Alice. LIVEWRITING.NET | Example of livewriting.
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