Stella James & Tim Rylands, premier IT educational speakers, give their insights about online safety and enthusing learners using technology. http://www.timrylands.com http://www.timrylands.com/2016/10/20/nape-computing-edtech-conference-2016-oxford-2/ http://gooseberryplanet.com http://nape.org.uk http://nape.org.uk/computing-edtech-conference-2/
Tynker is a complete learning system that teaches kids to code. Kids begin experimenting with visual blocks, then progress to JavaScript and Python as they design games, build apps, and make incredible projects. 50 Million Kids 60 Thousand Schools 2.4 Billion lines of code https://www.tynker.com/ https://www.parrot.com
mama.codes mission is to start all young children on their coding journey and give them the confidence and ability to code. The teaching method introduces children as young as three to coding through song, rhyme and storytelling using free kids’ coding App ScratchJr. Coding is the new literacy. It is on the school curriculum in…
Listen to the award winning DigiExam on how the revolution has started with Easy to use – Collaborative – Reliable digital exams. DigiExam is an intuitive digital assessment platform used to create, administer and grade assessments. Through a comprehensive set of tools, the platform simplifies the exam process for instructors and teachers, helps students complete…
Apps for Good is an open-source technology education movement that partners with educators in schools and learning centres to deliver our course to young people 10-18 years of age. “The pedagogy Apps for Good uses has transformed my teaching of IT.” Jonathan Kemp, Bolton St Catherine’s Academy, North West England https://www.appsforgood.org https://twitter.com/AppsforGood
Interviews with the 2016 Winners Check out the student app winners from the Apps for Good Awards 2016 who have turned bright ideas into real technology products to solve problems in their world. Lilies Donate it DiPloy Changes Allergy Basket Fear Nothing
Heather Picov, UK Managing Director explains how Apps for Good equips students to research, design and make digital products and take them to market. But apps are not the point of what we do. Our goal is to produce more able, self-confident, collaborative young people, ready to make a difference to their world. Most children…
While celebrating the milestone of 1 million children being reached by the Barefoot Computing Programme I interview 2 teachers from the top of the BT Tower. http://barefootcas.org.uk http://www.computingatschool.org.uk https://www.raspberrypi.org https://techliteracy.co.uk https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education http://www.btplc.com View from the top of the BT Tower Liz Williams – Director Tech Literacy and Education programmes at BT Bill Mitchell – BCS…