Grrr. I was intending that my next post would be a follow-up to this one, but events, dear boy, events! So, Nesta and The TES commission YouGov to run a survey on teachers levels of confidence in delivering the new Computing curriculum. They may well have their own motives for asking the particular set of… Read More The significance of confidence levels
This week we have two groups appearing on the edu scene to show schools the way to work with technology. The Year of Code arrived to fairly universal derision, with a Chief Exec who, by her own admission, couldn’t code. It has a group of ‘advisors’ who have a fairly limited number of actual coders… Read More Flipping things
Ewan McIntosh has pointed out Eric Schmidt is wrong in Scotland, but he is also wrong in England as careful readers of the ICT National Curriculum Programme of Study and (particularly) the Level Descriptors (the key bits of which I have extracted below): Level 3 – They use sequences of instructions to control devices and achieve specific outcomes.… Read More Why Eric Schmidt (and quite a few others) are only partly right
Distant Ramblings on the Horizon 