TY - GEN
T1 - A working model for teacher training in computing through the literacy from Scratch project
AU - Williams, Lawrence
AU - Černochová, Miroslava
AU - Demo, G. Barbara
AU - Younie, Sarah
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2014.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - From September 2014, classroom teachers in the United Kingdom are required to move away from teaching ICT, towards new Programmes of Study in Computing, including computer programming. This chapter presents a developing international working model for teacher training, designed to support this major change in focus. Conceived at Brunel University, west London, ideas for the development of computer coding in the classroom were swiftly shared with colleagues at Charles University in Prague, at the University of Torino, Italy, and with De Montfort University, UK. Based on the MIT Scratch program, teacher trainers and classroom pupils are introduced to elementary block-coding, through a highly creative cross-curricular teaching and learning project called “Literacy from Scratch”. This centres on the crosscurricular production of animated narratives, together with the pupils’ own art work, for Sprites and Backgrounds. The project has successfully engaged pupils in computer coding from the ages of 5 through to 14 in the UK, and to 16 in Italy.
AB - From September 2014, classroom teachers in the United Kingdom are required to move away from teaching ICT, towards new Programmes of Study in Computing, including computer programming. This chapter presents a developing international working model for teacher training, designed to support this major change in focus. Conceived at Brunel University, west London, ideas for the development of computer coding in the classroom were swiftly shared with colleagues at Charles University in Prague, at the University of Torino, Italy, and with De Montfort University, UK. Based on the MIT Scratch program, teacher trainers and classroom pupils are introduced to elementary block-coding, through a highly creative cross-curricular teaching and learning project called “Literacy from Scratch”. This centres on the crosscurricular production of animated narratives, together with the pupils’ own art work, for Sprites and Backgrounds. The project has successfully engaged pupils in computer coding from the ages of 5 through to 14 in the UK, and to 16 in Italy.
KW - Computing
KW - Creativity
KW - Key competencies
KW - Teacher training
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84919642245
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-662-45770-2_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-662-45770-2_3
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84919642245
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 25
EP - 33
BT - Key Competencies in ICT and Informatics
A2 - Passey, Don
A2 - Tatnall, Arthur
PB - Springer
T2 - IFIP WG 3.4/3.7 International Conference on Key Competencies in Informatics and Information and Communication Technologies, KCICTP and ITEM 2014
Y2 - 1 July 2014 through 4 July 2014
ER -