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A website full of IGCSE ICT notes and resources.

Romo is a curious robot that you can train!

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Linda Liukas's project Hello Ruby smashed its Kickstarter funding goal in under four hours.

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What's in the Hour-of-code? Try any of Tynker's 8 free Hour of Code tutorials: Puppy Adventure Mini - a Beginner coding puzzle Puppy Play Time - a free play activity for Beginners Lost in Space - a Beginner coding puzzle Sketch Racer - an Intermediate coding puzzle Space Zombies - an Intermediate Build-a-Game tutorial Puppy Adventure Complete - an Intermediate puzzle and debugging tutorial Math Art - an Intermediate tutorial to learn how to program to draw shapes. 15 block Challenge - a free play activity to spur creative juices. What do these tutorials teach? The puzzles are designed to teach students the basics of computer programming such as sequencing, repetition, and conditional logic. Students solve each puzzle by connecting visual code blocks to achieve a goal.

Phil is a CAS (Computing at Schools) Regional Coordinator, Primary Computing Master Teacher funded by the DfE and Hampshire Computing Lead Teacher. In 2013 he spoke about Computing in the primary phase at the CAS England conference, CAS Wales conference and the CAS Scotland conference. He has a wealth of computing and ICT experience as he was an ICT advanced Skills Teacher for many years. Phil facilitates the CAS primary group whose aim has been to include computing science into the primary curriculum. Phil was involved at the drafting stage in creating and refining the new Computing Curriculum through the BCS and CAS. Phil currently teaches computing science in five Hampshire junior schools where he has created a curriculum that covers all the objectives of the new National Curriculum and promotes Mathematical understanding. Phil can be contacted for advice about improving Computing at your school.

Phil is a CAS (Computing at Schools) Regional Coordinator, Primary Computing Master Teacher funded by the DfE and Hampshire Computing Lead Teacher. In 2013 he spoke about Computing in the primary phase at the CAS England conference, CAS Wales conference and the CAS Scotland conference. He has a wealth of computing and ICT experience as he was an ICT advanced Skills Teacher for many years. Phil facilitates the CAS primary group whose aim has been to include computing science into the primary curriculum. Phil was involved at the drafting stage in creating and refining the new Computing Curriculum through the BCS and CAS. Phil currently teaches computing science in five Hampshire junior schools where he has created a curriculum that covers all the objectives of the new National Curriculum and promotes Mathematical understanding. Phil can be contacted for advice about improving Computing at your school.

Sample KS2 Computing Plan A sample document showing how some of my planning could be used across KS2 incoporating most aspects of the new computing curriculum whilst keeping essential digital literacy skills.

Sample KS2 Computing Plan A sample document showing how some of my planning could be used across KS2 incoporating most aspects of the new computing curriculum whilst keeping essential digital literacy skills.

How to create a school newsletter that uses text for effect and allows pupils to insert graphics and sound.

How to create a school newsletter that uses text for effect and allows pupils to insert graphics and sound.

This is a crowd-sourced document to show resources that are available for the proposed computing curriculum. Share this document with anyone who will find it useful! Please let me know of any computing blog posts that can be added here http://carryonlearning.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/the-proposed-computing-curriculum.html Lots of ipad apps have been collated here http://www.ipadsinprimary.co.uk/control-and-programming

This is a crowd-sourced document to show resources that are available for the proposed computing curriculum. Share this document with anyone who will find it useful! Please let me know of any computing blog posts that can be added here http://carryonlearning.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/the-proposed-computing-curriculum.html Lots of ipad apps have been collated here http://www.ipadsinprimary.co.uk/control-and-programming

The Parts of a Computer System &;What is a Computer?

A GCSE revision and recap resource for ICT systems.