Professor Sarah Younie and her colleagues are undertaking research about, er, research. Do you find educational research useful in your teaching? What would make it more useful? Please take part in a brief survey that is looking into questions like these.
Continue reading →How do you maintain your professional development record. Terry Freedman suggests a few approaches.
Continue reading →How can teachers keep up with technology? Helen Boulton reports on a project that sought a solution to this thorny issue.
Continue reading →Helen Boulton reports on a huge game-making project. Early results suggest much higher engagement by disaffected pupils.
Continue reading →Chris Shelton reports on this year’s World Conference on Computers in Education.
Continue reading →Helen Boulton reports from the International Conference on Open and Innovative Education in Hong Kong.
Continue reading →In England year 7 children (first year of high school) are asking “what is a mouse?” Secondary teachers are reporting that children are arriving at secondary school not having used a computer mouse. In addition, some children have not used … Continue reading →
Andy Connell shares a few thoughts about the 2017 annual ITTE Conference, and reflects on the recent news that the number of students opting to study computing has fallen.
Continue reading →How can a teacher or educator keep up to date? For Marilyn Leask, ITTE provided a solution.
Continue reading →Draw and Tell is a simple iPad drawing and painting app for children. Emma Goto puts it through its paces.
Continue reading →In this article, Emma Goto argues that technology can be used well, or poorly, and sets the scene for a series of reviews of interesting apps.
Continue reading →Here are five good ways of introducing and developing computational thinking across the curriculum through fun, physical, ‘unplugged’ activities.
Continue reading →How can the Raspberry Pi be used to help children understand the Internet of Things? Helen Caldwell explains.
Continue reading →You’ve had a great idea for teaching, let’s say algorithms. How do you know if it will work though, ie in the sense of extending or deepening pupils’ knowledge?
Continue reading →There are so many resources you could use for teaching Computing and education technology, how do you choose the best ones? This article suggests a few criteria.
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