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March 26, 2018 computer science education / concepts / micro:bit / pedagogy / programming / teachers / teaching

IT and Computing education in Guyana

Guyana is a small country (size of UK) in the north of South America bordering Venezuela, Brazil and Suriname. However

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January 5, 2018 computer science education / pedagogy / research / teachers / teaching / Uncategorized

A continuum of scaffolding: from copying code to tinkering

Jane Waite, of King’s College London & Queen Mary University of London, is researching ways of teaching programming, with the

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November 29, 2017 computational thinking / computer science education / teaching

Bebras Cards

The Bebras Computing Challenge introduces computational thinking to students. It is organised in 50 countries and designed to get students

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September 1, 2017 computer science education / pedagogy / research / teachers / teaching

PRIMM: A structured approach to teaching programming

PRIMM is one approach that we hope can help teachers structure lessons in programming.  It is based on research into

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July 11, 2017 computer science education / micro:bit / pedagogy / research / teachers

How do you teach with the BBC micro:bit?

At King’s College London we are pleased to host a visiting researcher, Filiz Kalelioğlu, from Turkey, who is researching pedagogy

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February 20, 2017 computer science education / pedagogy / research / teachers / teaching

Exploring pedagogies for teaching programming in school

Many teachers are able to recognise that students can find programming difficult and can identify the stages that novice school-aged

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September 1, 2016 CAS London / computational thinking / computer science education / pedagogy / research / teaching

My PhD: abstraction in primary Computing

Jane Waite: CAS London Project Manager, based at King’s College London, has had a poster accepted at WiPSCE 2016. Jane

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I research computing education in schools, particularly in the UK. My particular interests are programming pedagogy, teacher professional learning in computing, curriculum change, and physical computing. Any views expressed on this site are my own and not endorsed by my employer. I work for the Raspberry Pi Foundation and I'm a Visiting Fellow at King's College London.

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