CAS Conference (Birmingham) 2015
Links to resources and presentations given at the CAS Conference (Birmingham) 2015
Note to presenters: please add slides, notes, external links as you wish to the following resource
Story of the day
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Slides and Presentations
Plenaries/Keynotes
Research Stream
- What we found out and how we did it (Part I)
- What we found out and how we did it (Part II)
Teachers’ Perspectives on successful strategies for teaching Computing- Sue Sentance & Andrew Csizmadia
- Where Do I Begin - Experiences of Teacher-Researchers
— no slides used —
- Plan-Your-Research Workshop
Task-based workshop
Workshops
- Teach great computer science in primary with Barefoot Computing (Zoe Ross)
- Showcasing the BBC Micro Bit
- An Insight into the Digital Schoolhouse Programme (Shahneila Saeed)
- Capturing attention for Computer Science: from Parents’ Evenings to Assemblies, from KS1 to A-level and beyond (Peter Dickman)
- The new A level (AQA, OCR, WJEC) (Kevin Bond, Robert Leeman, David Pearce()
- Resources for CS - interactive and self driven (Mr Oli Howson)
- Assessing Computing (especially programming)(Chris Coetzee)
- Codio - Comprehensive Teacher Support for the New Curriculum (Philip Snalune, Freddie May)
- Boolean Logic and more advanced logics (Aiden Delaney)
- Fantastical Computer Systems and Computational Thinking (Jason Budge)
- Helping primary and secondary schools to deliver the new computing curriculum successfully using the QuickStart CPD Toolkit for teachers (Yvonne Walker)
- Unplugged Programming KS2-KS3 (Dave White)
- Turtle System (Peter Millican)
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Explorers need maps: Abstraction, representation and graphs (Paul Curzon) See Teaching London Computing for linked resources
- The new A level (AQA, OCR, WJEC) (Kevin Bond, Robert Leeman, David Pearce)
- What’s a programming paradigm anyway? (Neil Brown)
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Are we giving enough opportunities to think outside the box? (Dharini Krishnamoorthy)
- Tools to teach the other bits (Ben Stradling)
- Programming Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi (Sarah Zaman)
- Narrowing the gap between PP and non PP students (Chloe Gardner)
- Digital Schoolhouse - Inspirational Computing (Shahneila Saeed)
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The Magic of Computer Science (Paul Curzon) See Teaching London Computing for linked resources
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What is OOP and why does it matter? (Michael Kölling)
- Help me teach GCSE Computing (Alan O’Donohoe)
- Using Cospace to teach Computer Science (Nicky Hughes)
- Computing in Yr 7 - Keep them busy (Mrs Manique Wilson)
- Where are the girls?!? Strategies to bridge the gender gap. (Pete Marshman)
- Scratch Across The Curriculum (Matthew Parry) All resources available here
- Showcasing the BBC Micro Bit Howard Baker (Editor, BBC Learning) & Jo Claessens (Producer, BBC Learning)
- Transition from blocks to text-based programming with Greenfoot 3 (Michael Kölling and Neil Brown)
(No slides; description of frame-based editing; Greenfoot 3 download)
- Introduction to programming with TouchDevelop (Simon Johnson)
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Computer Science PGCE - Preparing for the Future (Mr Michael Jones)
- Transforming expectations: Computing Science - a doorway through to a career in visual effects (VFX). (Tony Micilotta)
- Promoting problem solving and resilience and combatting learnt helplessness (Phil Bagge)
- Encouraging girls into IT (Trevor Bragg)
- New OCR GCE Computer Architecture unplugged (Christine Swan): Computer Architecture unplugged presentation, CPU Board Game, SNAP card game,
LMC card game,
CPU worksheet.
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