I spoke at the EAL/New Arrivals Team briefings last week about the free tools that teachers and support staff can use to help learners with English as an Additional Language (EAL) access the curriculum. This isn’t the specific apps and pieces of software, rather the tools included in hardware and…
The eLearning Service is delighted to announce that we have partnered with Learn Sheffield to become an associate service. This brings benefits to us all. You will be able to find us in our new home at the Learn Sheffield Training and Development Hub next door to Newfield School (for…
There is a lot of great work being done in Computing in Sheffield, across Primary, Secondary and Special schools, and we want to help teachers share best practice and find resources. In the past we have run Primary Computing Co-ordinator’s Briefings every term, but we have now cancelled these. This…
This post was originally published in the Teaching Computing in Secondary Schools group on the National STEM Centre website: Technology is a great enabler, and can support students with special educational needs and disabilities to access learning and create meaningful content. The programming elements of the computing curriculum can, however, be…
This week I spent a day at the wonderful National Science Learning Centre in York learning about the BBC micro:bit on a Computing at School roadshow. The micro:bit is a very simple computer that is being sent out to schools this year for every year 7 pupil to enable them…
I attended a Hack the Curriculum event last week in London with a number of teachers and digital industry professionals to start work on a Wikibook for KS3 Computing. It was organised by #include – a working group of Computing at School who are working to make Computing accessible for…
This post is a collection of ideas about Secondary Computing that have arisen from two years of work on these issues with and for schools. In particular I have been heavily involved in the last three months in working with a CAS (Computing at School) Master Teacher and a couple…
