Teaching Computing Unplugged in Primary Schools: Exploring primary computing through practical activities away from the computer - Softcover

Helen Caldwell; Neil Smith

 
9781473961708: Teaching Computing Unplugged in Primary Schools: Exploring primary computing through practical activities away from the computer
Softcover
ISBN 10: 147396170X ISBN 13: 9781473961708
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

Teaching primary computing without computers?

The Computing curriculum is a challenge for primary school teachers.  The realities of primary school resources mean limited access to computer hardware.  But computing is about more than computers. Important aspects of the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science can be taught without any hardware.  Children can learn to analyse problems and computational terms and apply computational thinking to solve problems without turning on a computer.

This book shows you how you can teach computing through ‘unplugged’ activities. It provides lesson examples and everyday activities to help teachers and pupils explore computing concepts in a concrete way, accelerating their understanding and grasp of key ideas such as abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation. The unplugged approach is physical and collaborative, using kinaesthetic learning to help make computing concepts more meaningful and memorable.

This book will help you to elevate your teaching, and your children′s learning of computing beyond the available hardware.  It focuses on the building blocks of understanding required for computation thinking. 

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About the Author

Helen Caldwell is the curriculum lead for Primary Computing in Teacher Education at the University of Northampton. Her teaching covers the use of technology across primary subjects, implementing the computing curriculum and assistive technologies for SEN.

From the Back Cover

Practical guide to teaching computing without a computer (or any technology) in primary schools.

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Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
147396170X
ISBN 13 
9781473961708
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
216
Editor
Caldwell Helen, Smith Neil

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