Programming in a Primary School

1. Programming in a Primary School The mud pie or the lego bricks

2. Programming in a Primary School • Build 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

3. 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

4. explore What are the opportunities for your learners? engage investigate analyse create collaborate review

5. What are the opportunities for your learners? ‘Freedom to go everywhere and anywhere, as far as the eye can see.’ 14 year old glider pilot

6. ICT curriculum • Finding things out • Handling data • Research e-sense • Exchanging and sharing information • Presentation • Collaboration Planning, developing and evaluating • Developing ideas and making things happen • Control and monitoring • Modelling and simulation

7. Computing Programme of Study e-sense • Computer Science • Creative use of ICT • Digital Literacy

8. 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

9. Learning Power! Involvement of sustainable criteria in a sample of 30 classic Roamer activities Dynamic relationship allowing any participant to be teacher or learner 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

10. Creator Collaborator What are the opportunities for your learners? Learner as … Investigator Consumer Problem Solver

11. To Pi or not to Pi: that is the question

12. Existing resources

13. Logo 2Simple Infant Video Toolkit PurpleMash 2Go and Logo Textease Turtle FSW Logo Superlogo

14. What will it create? Repeat 5 Fd 10 Rt 132 Fd 10 Lt 60 end

15. What will it create? Repeat 5 Fd 10 Rt 132 Fd 10 Lt 60 end

16. What will it create? Repeat 6 Fd 10 Rt 120 Fd 10 Lt 60 end

17. What will it create? Repeat 6 Fd 10 Rt 120 Fd 10 Lt 60 end

18. What will it create? 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.

19. Taking logo further

20. … and further

21. Game Creation 2Simple 2DIY PurpleMash Kodu Scratch

22. Code Club

23. 10 Block activity

24. Hands - on

25. Go Control

26. Hands - on

27. What thinking is happening?

28. Open-ended challenge process

29. Action planning Where will you include programming? Which are the key resources for your school? What staff development is required?

30. eLIM website – How can it help you? Somerset Learning Platform https://slp.somerset.gov.uk– select ‘Somerset ELIM’ Programming page Progressions page Support sheets in Primary blog