WHERE TO START WITH COMPUTING SCIENCE
Computing is one of the most exciting subjects children and young people can learn about. Computers are all around us, embedded in the devices we use everyday, from kettles and toasters, to cars and buildings.
The DigiLearn team at Education Scotland aim to provide you with the knowledge and skills to bring this exciting, engaging and meaningful subject to life in, and out, of your settings across the country. We will develop capacity across education for practitioners to develop and embed computing science across the curriculum, with the support of training, resources and tailored guidance/support.
Did you know that Barefoot run FREE online workshops for early years practitioners?
LATEST FROM THE COMMUNITY
Dundee practitioner, Judi Regan has very kindly shared resources for some wonderful Code-a-pillar play activities for early level learners. If you were at SLF 2019, you may have been lucky enough to attend her seminar. Among the resources, there are the ‘human’ Code-a-pillar arrows for children to wear. Judi them… Read more
by Susan Ward, DHT Kingsland Primary, Scottish Borders Finding the time for computing science can be tough. With a slimmed-down recovery curriculum to contend with and a ‘to do’ list stretching to infinity and beyond, primary teachers could be forgiven for consigning CS lessons to the ‘would be nice’ pile rather… Read more
Dedridge Primary School, West Lothian shared this wonderful example of how early level learners created algorithms to programme BeeBots to retell the nativity story at Christmas time. How many areas of the curriculum can you identify in this clip? We would love to continually add examples of how you are embedding computing science… Read more
There is so much maths in computing and that presents excellent opportunities for interdisciplinary learning. Why not plan to introduce directional language through these engaging challenges form code.org? Learners simply drag blocks of ‘code’ together like jigsaw pieces to solve mathematical puzzles. There’s help videos and hints for each challenge… Read more
