Workshop on Teaching Programming
31st of March will see the 8th Programming Workshop of the HEA-ICS. This time it’s being held at Glasgow University – very handy for myself, so hopefully I’ll be able to attend. My colleague John...
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Games on the curriculum
I spotted this intriguing piece earlier in the week -” ‘Games’ to be taught in Scottish Schools” The article doesn’t reveal much in the way of details but claims: Scottish schoolchildren are to be...
View ArticleScratch for Second Life
What it says… Eric Rosenbaum at MIT (where Scratch, the programming environment for children, is developed) has put together Scratch for Second Life – allowing the creation of LSL scripts via the...
View ArticleComputer Programming as Digital Literacy
If the so-called ‘Digital Natives’ don’t know how to program a computer, are they really digitally literate? In his blog, Tony Forster presents an “argument for the authoring of interactive or...
View ArticleGame Blocks – Scratch based game & narrative development tool
The introductory programming environment Scratch has rightly become quite popular globally as a fun way to introduce children to programming concepts and software development. BYOB is a UC Berkeley...
View ArticleComputing Science for Schools
My own modest OER contribution (see previous post) pales into insignificance next to a fantasic set of materials from Jeremy Scott, developed with the support of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the...
View ArticleScratch 2 and Snap/BYOB 4
Scratch 2 is now in beta, here. Great timing, as just after a whole load of teacher resources for Scratch get published (CAS RPi manual, and RSE packs), Scratch 2.0 gets announced with a range of very...
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