Charlie Love discussed computing in schools and computational thinking.
Links:
- Charlie Love (charlie_love) on Twitter
- CompEdNet: Computing Education Forum
- Charlie Love’s Blog
- CASScotland Conference – October 26th – a great day for educators!
- Ross Penman – A 14 year’s view of what’s wrong with Computing Education in Schools
- Nesta On Day Digital for Teachers – great creative technology CPD
- Coder Dojo (Scotland) – fab free coding clubs for young people
- Flow – state often developed when programming
- Royal Society of Edinburgh/BCS – Computing Science CfE resources
- Great blog post on the concept of Computational Thinking
- Consolarium Code Club: something new in Glow
Key recent reports:
- Shut down or restart? The Royal Society
- Next Gen, Ian Livingston and Alex Hope from Nesta
- Computational Thinking in Schools
Programming/games
- LiveCode
- Scratch 2.0 – makes games in the browser
- Kodu Game Lab – awesome game making in 3D
- Minecraft – digital lego and creativity
- Minecraft in Education links
- Massively Minecraft – safe minecraft world for learners (and parents!)