Welcome back to the Brighter Thinking Pod! In this episode we dive into teaching programming to primary and secondary learners. We believe that learning to code is an important skill for young people in today's world - not just in itself, but with the '21st century skills' that come with it: computational thinking, critical thinking, creativity and much more.
Our host for this episode is Commissioning Editor for computing and ICT resources at the Press, Carys Morley. She is joined by Neil Rickus and Dr Jon 'Chip' Chippindall. Neil is a Senior Lecturer in Computing Education at the University of Hertfordshire. He also lectures at UCL, Brunel and for various School-Centred Initial Teacher Trainings. Chip is a Primary School teacher at a UK primary school where he teaches computing and science. He is the Director of BCS Barefoot programme and Lead Computing PGCE at The University of Manchester.
Show notes
Cambridge Primary and Lower Secondary Computing
Barefoot Computing
Bee-Bots
Daisy the Dinosaur app
Hour of Code
ScratchJr
Sphero
Neil Rickus Twitter
Dr Jon Chippindall (Chip) Twitter
Cambridge University Press Twitter
Cambridge University Press Instagram
Ep 44: Cultivating Green Shoots: A Practical Guide to Climate Change and Sustainability in Your School
Ep 43: Introduction to Climate Change Education
Ep 42: How to be an Effective Maths Teacher in the Fast-Changing Modern World
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Bonus ep: The Difficulties and Avenues for Delivering Educational Offerings About Healthy Eating to Minoritized Ethnic Communities
Bonus ep: Educating Adults to Eat More Healthily
Bonus ep: Understanding How Adolescents Could Eat More Healthily
Bonus ep: How to Educate Young Children and Caregivers About Healthy Eating
Ep 41: Mental Fluency in Maths
Ep 40: How to ‘NRICH’ Maths Students Through Project Work: Tasks for IGCSE
Ep 39: Top Tips for Teaching Primary and Lower Secondary Global Perspectives
Ep 38: Stretch, Support and Challenge in Upper Secondary Science part 2
Ep 37: Stretch, Support and Challenge in Upper Secondary Science part 1
Ep 35: Assessment part 3: Steering a Course in the Sea of Data
Ep 34: Assessment part 2: Setting up Assessments for Success
Ep 33: Assessment part 1: Here, There and Everywhere
Ep 32: Positive Peace
Ep 31: Developing Essential Skills for IB Sciences
Ep 30: Behaviour for Learning
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