Professional Learning And Networking for Computing
Summary of Technique Pupils (in pairs) differentiate data items used in a system and attempt to classify or group those items based on their knowledge of the system being examined. After classifying the data structures pupils will explore how the data items interact and determine rules...
Summary of Technique Office mix This technique is used to interrogate pupils’ knowledge of relational databases by looking at alternative conceptions. A list of known alternative conceptions (see the approach post here) is used as the basis for a question set. The questions can act as a...
Summary of Technique Parson’s puzzles can be created in any authoring environment that provides a matching exercise format or using a specially developed Javascript library called JS Parsons and HTML. This allows the puzzle to be self-marking which means that it can be used as an...
Summary of Approach The principle behind Parson’s puzzles is to provide students with a selection of jumbled up code fragments that they can rearrange to solve the puzzle. This approach allows learners to focus on how to compose program code to solve a particular problem...
Summary of Approach Office Mix goes here Unplugged computing is a form of kinaesthetic, or tactile, learning in which learning takes place by the students carrying out physical activities, rather than listening to a lecture or watching demonstrations. In Computing Science these activities usually give an overview of...
