Bloomsbury Curriculum Basics: Teaching Primary Computing
Aug 2024 · Bloomsbury Publishing
Ebook
176
Pages
About this ebook
The Bloomsbury Curriculum Basics series provides non-specialist primary school teachers with subject knowledge and full teaching programmes in a variety of key primary curriculum subjects.
This is a revised and up-to-date hands-on guide to planning and delivering primary computing lessons in a fun and refreshing way. Updates include the following:
- Coding
- New uses and capabilities of the program Scratch
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and virtual reality, including how to create art using AI and how to use ChatGPT.
The teaching ideas are well-structured, engaging, easy to implement, and use mostly free tools that operate across the many digital platforms that primary schools use, while keeping in line with National Curriculum guidelines for KS1 and KS2. Each chapter offers practitioners an essential summary of all the information and vocabulary needed to successfully implement exciting computing lessons that will keep your class riveted!
This is a revised and up-to-date hands-on guide to planning and delivering primary computing lessons in a fun and refreshing way. Updates include the following:
- Coding
- New uses and capabilities of the program Scratch
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and virtual reality, including how to create art using AI and how to use ChatGPT.
The teaching ideas are well-structured, engaging, easy to implement, and use mostly free tools that operate across the many digital platforms that primary schools use, while keeping in line with National Curriculum guidelines for KS1 and KS2. Each chapter offers practitioners an essential summary of all the information and vocabulary needed to successfully implement exciting computing lessons that will keep your class riveted!
About the author
Martin Burrett is a primary teacher, speaker, editor of UKEd magazine and administrator for Twitter's UKEdChat. Martin has written widely on educational issues for many journals and is the author of 100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: Coding. Follow him on Twitter @ICTmagic.
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