Computer Science in Secondary Schools in the UK: Ways to Empower Teachers
@inproceedings{Sentance2013ComputerSI, title={Computer Science in Secondary Schools in the UK: Ways to Empower Teachers}, author={S. Sentance and M. Dorling and Adam McNicol}, booktitle={ISSEP}, year={2013} }
The recent move towards more Computer Science in school in the UK has obvious implications for teacher education, both for in-service and pre-service teachers. In England and other parts of the UK we have seen an unprecedented rate of change in the way that curricula are changing from a focus on learning to use software applications to the introduction of Computer Science throughout primary and secondary schools. In this paper we describe some of the challenges that we have faced, the progress… CONTINUE READING
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