Although the IT industry broadly welcomed education minister Michael Gove’s announcement today of a fundamental overhaul in the way ICT is taught in schools, those at the ‘chalkface’ were much more ...
Twenty-five teachers from Redlands Unified School District recently completed training by the UC Davis C-STEM Center and UC Riverside on integrating robotics and computing into math classes. (Redlands ...
An overview of the BBC Bitesize Guide to AI for teachers and how it can be used in the classroom with students age 14-19.
ICT teachers have reacted more positively to the Royal Society report on how computing education can be improved, than they did to education minister Michael Gove’s proposals on Wednesday. Gove had ...
When trying to ensure all students get access to the knowledge they need for college and careers, sometimes policy can get ahead of teacher capacity. Computer science is a case in point. As of 2022, ...
Computer science teaching in U.K. schools has been broken for years, having a soft focus on ICT teaching — i.e. showing kids how to use computer software — rather than teaching them how to use ...
The UK government has announced changes to the school computing curriculum in a bid to reverse the declining number of young ...
Peter Twining was the Director of Vital, a DfE funded programme to support staff in state funded 5-19 education in England to enhance their use of and teaching about digital technology. He is ...
The government is to scrap the teaching of the GCSE ICT curriculum in schools this September, with plans to replace the subject with the “rigorous” teaching of computer science and programming ...
The government will attempt to reverse the declining numbers of young people studying computing at school through a broader programme of study of the subject that retains its core principles. This ...
Sesugh Shiekaa, a teacher at the NKST Primary School Ahondo in the Nigerian state of Benue, had never used a computer before. Even though he had been a teacher for more than five years, he had no ...
Many TechSpot readers are experts in the field of information and communication technology (ICT) and its many subdivisions. Some may even be educators in computer science. But I wonder, how many of us ...