Professional Learning And Networking for Computing
Activity Summary This is a set of slides for presenting to a class with TrueBASIC questions. The questions work well when used with Peer Instruction. The TrueBASIC content covers National 5 level concepts for programming. Suggested Number of Lessons Spread over a unit of learning TrueBASIC. Resources TB PIQs—PLAN...
Activity Summary National 5 Pupil Revision Notes covering the programming constructs assignment, selection and repetition. These are linked to worked examples of explaining code questions, written in the SQA Reference Language (also known as ‘Haggis’). Suggested Number of Lessons These will be used throughout the SDD course....
Activity Summary This is a set of slides for presenting to a class with Scratch questions. The questions work well when used with Peer Instruction. The Scratch content covers the majority of National 5 level concepts for programming. Suggested Number of Lessons Spread over a unit of...
Activity Summary This is a diagnostic test and set of PI questions that helps a teacher to identify alternative conceptions of structured style code. They can be used as a multiple choice test with the most common alternative conceptions at National 5 being identified or as individual...
Summary of Technique Bill will complete this post! This is an ultimately understanding-first method of teaching programming – which involves introducing the reference language constructs alongside (even ahead of) the corresponding specific programming language constructs. Students both work to understand explain code as well as writing code...
Summary of Technique Exercise(s) for Teachers Ways of Using the Technique in the Classroom The most important thing about using TRACS is to be flexible in its use. The process captures all the features of a piece of code and allows you to concentrate on...
Summary of Technique The aim of this technique is to enable learners to think about the execution level of HTML and CSS. Learners are provided, on paper, with a piece of HTML and/or CSS code along with an image of how it will appear in a browser. They will be asked to identify...
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 Technique Pupils need to be ready to understand and explain code fragments presented using the SQA Reference Language in exams. Different techniques are possible here, and this post describes one of them. An alternative can be found at XXX. Slides here. Exercise(s) for Teachers...
Summary of Technique Office mix TRACS for expressions is a technique for analysing the expressions in code. This could be as simple as the expression 4+5, to a complex expression such as (INT(RND*23)+1)>ROUND(a,3) OR b<j*r. The approach uses annotation to outline the order of evaluation of...
