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Literacy from Scratch - Primary Teaching - Algorithms
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Using Scratch to support pupil learning. Materials by Teachers in English - Primary. Project to educate teachers on how to teach children algorithms. 1 How has this project impacted on your personal learning? What did you find challenging? My biggest challenge that I faced was timing. It was extremely difficult to make sure that every Sprite speaks at the right time. It was a very time-consuming aspect of my project that kept changing every time I added a new sentence. What did you learn? When starting m...
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Literacy from Scratch -WCCE 2013 Conference Paper
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Using Scratch to support pupil learning. Paper presented at WCCE 2013 Conference. Introduction Computer Science Education in the UK and the Czech Republic. A Model of Innovative Teaching of Computer Science in Primary and Secondary School Education in the UK. A Model for Creative and Collaborative Teaching of ICT and Art Education in Czech Primary Schools. Working Model in Primary and Secondary Schools, and Linking UK and CZ. Conclusion and Future Developments. You can download this paper. Or the MIT Scr...
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Literacy from Scratch - Scratch download and starter materials
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Using Scratch to support pupil learning. Download Scratch and get started! The first thing you will need to do is to download the Scratch software. Links to the current versions are given below. Getting started can be a little daunting if you have never used the software before, but it is really easy, especially if you have a play with a file which someone else has done! The student teachers involved in this project have kindly supplied the Scratch files which they used as a starter/stimulus for others.
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Literacy from Scratch - Primary Teaching - Algorithms
http://literacyfromscratch.org.uk/teaching/using_scratch.htm
Using Scratch to support pupil learning. Materials by Teachers in English - Primary. Using Scratch with Year 1 (Donna Roberts). Download this document in Word. Download Scratch Story Planning Sheets. Lessons to develop the Key Stage 1 materials for the Literacy from Scratch project were taught by the Year 1 and 2 classroom teachers at Swaminarayan School, West London, and took place in a fully-equipped ICT suite over a timetabled lesson of one hour each week. I need your help! But I have seen such a mass...
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Literacy from Scratch - Primary Teaching - Music
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Using Scratch to support pupil learning. You can add music to your Scratch narratives, in different ways. There are at least four ways of doing this, and at varying levels of technical and musical difficulty:. By importing music files from the Scratch sound archive. By adding music through coding within Scratch (See also Loops and Repetition below). By singing, and/or playing a musical instrument directly into the program. From Audacity files (currently under development). How to do it. Loops and repetit...
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Literacy from Scratch - Primary Teaching
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Using Scratch to support pupil learning. Materials by Teachers in English - Primary. This section contains some schemes of work provided by the teachers and students. Primary teachers will find some of the work from secondary colleagues useful and stimulating as well! A short, three-lesson introduction to using Scratch in the Primary classroom. A walk through our town. A scheme of work developed by the Czech teachers. Creating a story in Scratch. KS3 Scheme, but of interest to KS2 teachers). Living and n...
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Literacy from Scratch - BETT13 Press Release
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Using Scratch to support pupil learning. Lawrence Williams supported by pupils from Bishop Ramsey School gave a presentation about their work with Scratch to a seminar at the prestigious IT Exhibition BETT13 held in January at the Excel Centre, London. The session began with an Interview with Bob Geldof. MirandaNet Archive site), followed by the pupils' presentation. Other items included a session on ' Re-engineering education. MirandaNet Archive site) and 'Digital Publication'. The full press release.
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Literacy from Scratch - Algorithms TES Press Release
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Using Scratch to support pupil learning. Algorithms and 5 year olds? By Lawrence Williams and Miroslava Černochová. Many Head Teachers have been dismayed by the seemingly impossible demands of the new Programmes of Study for Computing. Can ICT teachers now, suddenly, develop a wide range of new skills in Computing? Can pupils, aged only 5 years, really understand, write, and debug computer programmes? And, in any case, why should they? Papert and Harel, 1991) and Stager’s:. But how can this be achieved?
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Literacy from Scratch - Teaching - A walk through our town
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Using Scratch to support pupil learning. A walk through our town. See the section on Pedagogy. For an insight into the differences in approach undertaken by British and Czech teachers. This is the Scheme of Work for a Year 3-7 class which we developed for ZS Korunovacni in Prague. Each pupil designs his or her own story independently. This is the outline of the scheme:. Design a set of pictures (comics) drawn on a paper using pencils. Design and change backgrounds. Phase 1: User skills development to use...
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Literacy from Scratch
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Using Scratch to support pupil learning. Welcome to the “Literacy from Scratch” website. How to use this site. Teaching materials on this site are now quite wide-ranging, and I think the best starting point is the outline PowerPoint presentation. 8226; In Prague, Miroslava Černochová (Charles University) is carrying out on-going classroom research in order to ascertain which computer science (or informatics) concepts are actually being learned through undertaking this project. Contact us for further info...
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