We can now send a set of our 5 A3-sized Computer Science Hero posters completely free to primary computer science teachers, librarians and home educators in the UK. Please click the pink button below (or this link) to fill in the form and we’ll send you a set.
What do computer scientists look like?
We have a set of free posters for primary school teachers, home educators and librarians to download and print (PDF), or to use as a digital display (PowerPoint), or if you’re in the UK we can send you a set. Each celebrates a different computer scientist from history and gives a little bit of information about them. Our posters in this series are by illustrator (and computer scientist) Richard Butterworth.
Find out more and download the posters.
Activity
Younger children might enjoy creating an imagination poster of themselves in future, with a paragraph saying what useful computing- / technology-related thing they’ve invented… or perhaps making a poster about another computer scientist from history (we have plenty of suggestions here). If you do this we’d love to see them (email / Twitter / BlueSky*) and please let us know if we can share them (we will hide names or faces if you send us pictures).
*Paul Curzon (who co-founded CS4FN with the late Peter McOwan) is also on LinkedIn and regularly posts there too.
Further reading
The NCCE (National Centre for Computing Education) and Raspberry Pi have published a 2-pager “Culturally relevant pedagogy” (PDF), part of the ‘Pedagogy Quick Reads‘ series – “Teaching computing through culturally relevant pedagogy can engage more diverse groups of students and support learning.”
More resources at our Diversity portal on the CS4FN blog.
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