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Programming in a Primary School

The mud pie or the lego bricks


Programming in a Primary SchoolBuild your confidence in using technology to:•Provide excellent educational experiences •Generate high levels of engagement and commitment to learning•Help learners acquire knowledge and develop understanding across the curriculum

Build your knowledge and understanding of programming:•Increase knowledge of free or existing resources to develop programming•Increase confidence to use appropriate resources to teach programming•Recognise cross curriculum links to harness the creativity of programming•Extend knowledge of how programming contributes to the achievement of learners across the curriculum


Programming in a Primary School

Introduction: Where does it fit? Why? How?

Progression in Logo

Scratch

Models and Robots

Other software and apps

Key actions for back in school


What are the opportunities for your learners?

explore

engage

investigate

analyse

review

collaborate

create



‘Freedom to go everywhere and anywhere, as far as the eye can see.’

14 year old glider pilot


Finding things out

• Handling data

• Research

Exchanging and sharing information

• Presentation

• Collaboration

Developing ideas and making things happen

• Control and monitoring

• Modelling and simulation

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Computing Programme of Study

• Computer Science

• Creative use of ICT

• Digital Literacy

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Learning Power!

Typical learning criteria relevant to educational robots

Catlin, D. Valiant Technology Ltd and Blamires, M. Dept of Education, Canterbury Christ Church University; The Principles of Educational Robotic Applications framework for understanding and developing educational robots and their activities, cited in Advancing Education Summer 2012


Learning Power!

Catlin, D. Valiant Technology Ltd and Blamires, M. Dept of Education, Canterbury Christ Church University; The Principles of Educational Robotic Applications framework for understanding and developing educational robots and their activities, cited in Advancing Education Summer 2012

Involvement of sustainable criteria in a sample of 30 classic Roamer activities

Dynamic relationship allowing any participant to

be teacher or learner


Creator

Investigator

Problem Solver

Consumer

Collaborator

Learner as …



To Pi or not to Pi: that is the question


Control and Monitoring Modelling and Simulation

Poisson Rouge

Floor robots

Pivot stick animator/Stykz

Logo (2Simple, Textease Turtle, Superlogo, FMS)

Scratch

Go Control / Flowol

Smartnotebook

Big Day Out

BBC Science Clips

Maths ITPs

Spex+

Excel or Textease Spreadsheet

Existing resources


Logo

2Simple Infant Video Toolkit

Textease Turtle

FSW Logo Superlogo

PurpleMash2Go and Logo


What will it create?

Repeat 5Fd 10Rt 132Fd 10Lt 60end



Repeat 6Fd 10Rt 120Fd 10Lt 60end



Predict the letter that these instructions produce.

1) FD 90 RT 90 FD 40 BK 40 RT 90 FD 40 LT 90 FD 30

2) FD 30 RT 90 FD 20 BK 20 RT 270 FD 20 RT 90 FD 30

3) BK 60 FD 30 RT 90 FD 30 RT 90 FD 30 BK 60

Now can you draw the letter K? Now try the letter Z.


Taking logo further


… and further


Game Creation

2Simple 2DIY PurpleMash

Kodu Scratch


Code Club


10 Block activity


Hands - on


Go Control


Hands - on


What thinking is happening?


Open-ended challenge process


Action planning

Where will you include programming?

Which are the key resources for your school?

What staff development is required?


eLIM website – How can it help you?

Somerset Learning Platform https://slp.somerset.gov.uk – select ‘Somerset ELIM’

Support sheets in Primary blog

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