{"id":2015,"date":"2014-06-02T12:53:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T12:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2014-06-02T12:53:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T12:53:48","slug":"higher-computing-science-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/2014\/06\/02\/higher-computing-science-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher Computing Science Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Computing Science \u2013 support for new national Qualifications<\/h2>\n<p>Education Scotland organised and delivered a conference to support learning and teaching around the new Higher Computing Science on 29 May 2014.\u00a0 The main aims of the conference were to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Examine a range of appropriate approaches to learning and teaching<\/li>\n<li>Exemplify a significant amount of new course content<\/li>\n<li>Continue to build a successful learning community for computing science<\/li>\n<li>Examine other areas for development to be addressed over the next academic year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gerry Docherty, Chief Executive of Smarter Grid Solutions, who leads on the implementation of the ICT and Digital Technologies Skills Investment Plan was the keynote speaker.\u00a0 He did a tremendous job setting the scene for the conference and many of the issues he raised in the morning were discussed again in the closing plenary.<\/p>\n<p>It was a really great day and gives us lots to build on.\u00a0 If you have any suggestions as to how Education Scotland can further support this area of the curriculum please contact <a href=\"mailto:jim.lally@educationscotland.gov.uk\">jim.lally@educationscotland.gov.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computing Science \u2013 support for new national Qualifications Education Scotland organised and delivered a conference to support learning and teaching around the new Higher Computing Science on 29 May 2014.\u00a0 The main aims of the conference were to Examine a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/2014\/06\/02\/higher-computing-science-conference\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[705,631],"tags":[4200,5731,4835,674329,3517],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senior-phase","category-technologies","tag-partnership-working","tag-professional-learning","tag-skills-for-learning-life-work","tag-stemcentralinmotion","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}