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7 June 2022 by Jo Brodie

Teaching London Computing – Newsletter #10 – June 2022

This is the full text of the 10th newsletter which I (Jo B) email to all the UK teachers on our Teaching London Computing subscription list. Despite the name we support teachers across the UK and our resources can be freely downloaded by anyone anywhere in the world.

Details in the text below on how you can sign up if you’re reading this for the first time and would like to get the emailed version in future. It’s all free :)

 


 

Dear colleagues

Welcome to the June 2022 Teaching London Computing newsletter, our tenth (previous newsletters live here).

We have a few free London events coming up in June and July, a new issue of CS4FN imminent, and our big news is that Paul Curzon has been awarded an EPSRC grant for his work on public engagement with computer science. This will also allow us to expand the A Bit of CS4FN project for primary schools.

For new subscribers – Teaching London Computing (TLC) supports computing educators with free classroom resources and events and is a sister project to Computer Science 4 Fun (CS4FN), a free computing magazine (and website) to enthuse young people about computer science. CS4FN was founded in 2005 by Profs Paul Curzon and Peter McOwan (who died in 2019).

1. New issue of CS4FN – issue 28

Cunning Computational Contraptions is the 28th issue of CS4FN, our free computing magazine for schools. It’s currently on its way to the printers before being distributed to our UK school subscribers (not a subscriber? Fill in your details using the purple form here). This issue is about contraptions with links to computation, if not always computers themselves, and looks at the history of computing. The magazine will be online shortly, before the print copies land, so please keep your eyes on the link above.

 

2. Events (all are free)

2a. Barts and Queen Mary Virtual Science Festival 2022
Friday 10 June (10 – 4pm)

[Online] A family-friendly science festival for older secondary school children. This year’s festival will feature short live talks as well as fun website activities. Paul will be giving a half-hour talk at 3pm this Friday, on good medical device design and how computer scientists can help.

Contact sciencefestival@qmul.ac.uk to register your class, see the festival website, and our own page about it.

 

2b. QMUL Festival of Communities
Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th June (11.30 – 4.30pm)

[In person] Our university (QMUL) hosts an annual free family-friendly event for our local communities in Tower Hamlets (everyone’s welcome though!) – no tickets, just turn up.

We’re excited to be back at the festival this year (after Covid) on the Saturday (only) with our stall in Stepney Green Park. We’ll have our ‘make a cyborg hat’ and ‘colour in a computer zine’ activities for younger visitors and Paul will be giving a talk on The Magic of Computer Science at noon, as well as doing some close-up table magic at the stall.

Find out more at our blog post and on QMUL’s Festival of Communities page.

 

2c. Discovery: Humans and Machines
Wednesday 6 July (9.45 – 2pm), QMUL Mile End

Icon for the Isaac Discovery event showing a graphic of a hand belonging to a Black person passing a lightbulb to another hand which belongs to a White person.

[In person] This is a free event, for A level Computing students (with their teachers registering them), jointly run between Isaac Computer Science and colleagues in the Computer Science department (EECS) at QMUL. We’ve now reached capacity (~100) but there is a waiting list.

Paul will be giving the keynote talk exploring “how programmers can prevent medical error with good interaction design”.

Find out more at Isaac Computer Science’s event page, and our blog post.

 

2d. Festival of Play, from Digital Schoolhouse and Electronic Arts
Guildford: Friday 8th July 2022
Salford: Wednesday 13th July 2022

Image for Festival of Play

A new creative careers and Computing conference for students aged 8-15 in association with Electronic Arts to showcase the breadth and depth of roles available in the UK games industry. Book your free tickets.

 

3. EPSRC ICT Public Engagement Champion

Paul has been awarded funding from the EPSRC for three years as one of 5 newly appointed ICT Public Engagement Champions. The grant will enable him to produce another three issues of our ‘mini CS4FN’ magazine for primary aged children (A Bit of CS4FN) and an issue of CS4FN focusing on diversity in computing for secondary schools on diversity. These and other events planned will empower teachers to champion computer science in their own classrooms. The funding will also enable him to support academic computing researchers (at QMUL and beyond) in embedding public engagement into their work.

You can read more about it in our blog post and see the original call for applicants.

 

4. Ofsted – Research review series: Computing education literature review (16 May 2022)

Ofsted have published a review of research into factors that influence the quality of computing education in schools in England. “Its purpose is to identify factors that can contribute to high-quality school computing curriculums, assessment, pedagogy and systems. We will use this understanding of subject quality to examine how computing is taught in England’s schools.” Ofsted will (later) publish a subject report to share what they have learned. Both Paul Curzon’s and Jane Waite’s research has been included in this review.

View the research review document and see what people have said about it on Twitter (main landing page, or about the report itself)

 

5. CS4FN blog: Lego Computer Science

Paul Curzon has been writing a series of blog posts on using Lego as a tool to understand and teach computing.

Part 1: Lego Computer Science: pixel pictures
Part 2: Lego Computer Science: compression algorithms
Part 3: Lego Computer Science: representing numbers
Part 4: Lego Computer Science: representing numbers using position
Part 5: Lego Computer Science: Gray code

 

Follow us on Twitter @cas_london_crc or @cs4fn.

 

 

8 May 2020 by Jo Brodie

Teaching London Computing – Newsletter 7, Lockdown Edition ^JB

This is the full text of the 7th newsletter which I (Jo B) send to all London-based teachers on our subscription list. Teachers outside London get a shorter version with anything geographically irrelevant (ie things happening in London) removed, however during lockdown this is less clear. I also send a much shorter version to our international subscribers. Details in the text on how you can sign up if you’re reading this for the first time and would like to get the emailed version in future.


Dear colleagues

Welcome to Newsletter 7 (previous newsletters live here), the Lockdown Edition. During lockdown we’re converting lots of our puzzles and activities to ones that can be done at home without a printer. Many can be done with pen and paper, others on computers / tablets.

Please feel free to share this newsletter by forwarding it to colleagues in case they’d like to sign up too – new readers can sign up using the orange form on this page. You are receiving this email because you’ve previously signed up to the ‘TLC mailing list’ to hear about new courses and resources etc but if you no longer want to hear from us please let me know and I’ll remove you.

Best wishes Jo

Follow us on Twitter @cas_london_crc or @cs4fn.

1. [New] Family Newsletter – for parents and carers
We’re already in touch with lots of teacher subscribers but we want to reach parents and carers directly so that they can hear about our free computing resources as well. To that end we’re starting a new Family Newsletter – please let your friends know about this. People can sign up with an email address using the Google Form here, or bookmark this page (we’ll add links to the newsletters there for anyone who prefers not to give out email addresses) and there’s more explanation here.

2. Scalable Vector Graphics and programming images in SVG
Create and adapt vector drawings and puzzles while learning about data representation, mathematical scaling and the difference between bitmap images and vector images. No printer needed (though we do have printable options available) for most of these activities as they can be done on any device with a text editor (eg TextEdit for Macs or notepad.exe for Windows computers) and saved with the .svg file ending.

MyMondrian100dpi
Start with Vector Drawing Puzzles and this Summer Dot-to-dot puzzle. Fans of heraldry can make their own shields and artists can explore the work of Wassily Kandinsky, Bridget Riley and Piet Mondrian.

3. Egyptians KS2 project
We have a range of resources for different age groups. Our Egypt Gods and Goddesses Word Search is a simple word search that also provides a way to introduce search algorithms. Similarly some sort of strategy is needed to fit all the words into this Egyptian kriss-kross puzzle (starting with the longest words and paying attention to the position of the letters in the other words). Both of these puzzles can be done on a computer or printed out (the word search could just be copied onto paper).

All activities in the Egyptians project can be accessed here : https://teachinglondoncomputing.org/egyptians/

4. Home Learning / Computing At Home
As mentioned in the introduction we’ve gathered together a selection of our activities for primary and secondary-aged students and are adding more items there regularly. On either page the activities that have been highlighted in yellow can be done without a printer.

Primary Computing At Home image
Secondary resources

Home Learning resources for Primary …            …and Secondary students

We are also tweeting out our own new or adapted activities from the @cs4fn Twitter account and you’ll also find other resources on the #ComputingAtHome / #HomeLearning hashtags.

Other curated lists of computing-at-home activities
Computing At School (CAS) has a CAS Home Learning portal with links to a range of activities (subdivided into Primary, Secondary and Apps), Connecting with others, and Online Safety.

London Learning At Home – for those in London the Mayor’s London Curriculum team has launched a new platform to help people access resources to use at home, with a London flavour. Teaching London Computing’s primary and secondary pages are included (we have previously been funded by the Mayor of London’s ‘London Schools Excellence Fund’).

Teach Computing have a series of remote / online courses for teachers including support for primary and secondary teachers as well as home learning resources.

5. Paul Curzon talks / workshops – online
Prof Paul Curzon will be giving a series of free online talks via Zoom for teachers, dates to be confirmed.

The first talk will be on the Chocolate Turing Machine on Wednesday 13 May at 4.30pm UK time via Zoom. We’ll put some more information on this page about time / dates and registration and how to access Zoom (you can do so via a browser).

6. Intro to Primary Computing: CPD webinar for Primary Teachers
On Wednesday 13 May 2020 there is a free STEM webinar for primary teachers supported by the Mayor of London which “will explore the computing curriculum for Key Stage 1 and 2 in England and the support, resources and free CPD that is available for teachers and schools.” [More information] [Eventbrite link]

7. London History Day
Save the date – Sunday 31 May 2020 is London History Day and we have lots of computing-themed activities to do and things to read that relate to London’s history. For other subjects see the London Curriculum pages at the Mayor of London’s website.


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24 June 2019 by Jo Brodie - 2 Comments

Teaching London Computing Newsletter – July 2019

Welcome to the Summer newsletter from Teaching London Computing. Our previous newsletters can be found here) and new readers can sign up using the orange form on this page.

Table of contents

  1. [Free] Teaching Games Development course – Oct 2019
  2. [Free] Digital Art and Design course – Nov 2019
  3. [Free] Other Tech Pathways London courses
  4. NCCE courses portal
  5. Drawing shapes with Euclid
  6. Gender Action award pilot
  7. Paul Curzon’s latest blog post – Learning to Learn (to program): Semantic Waves
  8. Hatagons – the colouring in ‘cyborg’ hat
  9. Hackspaces and maker communities: computer science / electronics / making / music / tinkering / hacking

1. [FREE] Teaching Games Development for Secondary Schools – Oct 2019

Two-day Games Design and Development course

An introduction to teaching Games Development for secondary school teachers or educators in informal settings who teach this topic to learners of ages 11 to 24. There are two cohorts for this event. Everyone does Day One on Wed 2nd October and then the group splits across two dates, doing Day Two on either Thursday 3rd or Friday 4th October.

This free event takes place at Alexandra Palace.

  • Tickets for Cohort 1 (Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd October 2019)
  • Tickets for Cohort 2 (Wednesday 2nd and Friday 4th October 2019)

2. [FREE] Digital Art and Design for Secondary Schools (for Art or Computing Teachers) – Nov 2019

One day professional development course

An introduction to teaching Art and Design using Processing and other digital tools for secondary school teachers (and Year 6 primary teachers). This course is for Art and Design teachers and Computing teachers and we are particularly keen to see teachers from both departments so that they can support each other in introducing digital art and design in their schools.

This event takes place at Manorfield Primary School, E14 on 1 Nov 2019 and is free.

  • Register for free tickets and find out more (Friday 1st November 2019)

 

3. [Free] Other Tech Pathways London courses

There are a range of free teacher professional development courses for all London-based educators of young people aged between 11 and 24. Some of the courses offered are led by QMUL colleagues, worth bookmarking this site and having a look around https://techpathways.london/available-courses-4/

 

4. NCCE courses portal

The National Centre for Computing Education’s website is also worth bookmarking for face to face and online CPD courses (you’ll need to create an account to book a course but course info is here), for example “If you’re a secondary school teacher without a post A level qualification in computer science or a related subject then the Computer Science Accelerator Programme is specifically designed to help you. Find out more.”

5. Drawing shapes with Euclid


Euclid on the block…

A nice calm end of term maths, art and algorithms activity. Can you work out how to draw a perfect square with only a straight edge and compass? That is the sort of challenge the Ancient Greek mathematician Euclid set himself. You need to devise an algorithm to do it – a sequence of steps that guarantee you end up with a square.
More shapes from Euclid’s algorithms here https://teachinglondoncomputing.org/euclid/

6. Gender Action award pilot

Challenging stereotypes in nurseries, schools and colleges

UCL, King’s College London, the Institute of Physics and the University Council of Modern Languages (with support from the Mayor of London) have created Gender Action, a framework to support teachers and schools in challenging gender stereotypes. They’ve launched a Phase 1 roll-out in London and invite nurseries, schools and colleges to register and progress through the four recognition levels (Supporter, Initiator, Champion and Beacon).
Twitter: @_Gender_Action
Blog: https://www.genderaction.co.uk/latest-news/

 

7. Paul Curzon’s latest blog post – Learning to Learn (to program): Semantic Waves

We all learn naturally but some ways of learning are more effective than others. Whether it is a skill or knowledge you want to learn there are good ways and bad ways. These pages are about how to learn quickly and effectively. There is advice for how students can learn more effectively and for teachers on how they can support their students in learning more effectively. Paul’s latest post on his Learning to Learn (to Program) blog is on Semantic Waves.

8. Hatagons – the colouring in ‘cyborg’ hat

Half-human, half-computer

Aimed at primary school kids (~6 and up) this is a colouring in “brain” hat in which half of the hat relates to human brains and half to “computer brains”. This was a colouring in activity developed for the CS4FN stall at Queen Mary University of London’s “Festival of Communities” where we had lots of young children colouring them in, and parents cutting them out and gluing / taping them together for the kids to wear. We’re putting together some additional resources to go with the ‘hatagon’ (the hat is based on a tweaked half rhombicuboctahedron shape) and you can print your own here (for A3 and A4 printers). See the photos from the CS4FN stall here.

9. Hackspaces and maker communities: computer science / electronics / making / music / tinkering / hacking

There are lots of organisations, workshops and events in London that have an overlap with computer science and informal learning such as Dorkbot, Hackspace as well as events at the Barbican and V&A etc; this document highlights some of them.

 

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12 February 2019 by Jo Brodie - 0 comments

Teaching London Computing newsletter – February 2019

Welcome to our first newsletter of 2019 (previous editions live here). It contains a mix of free resources from our Teaching London Computing website and pointers to some other resources and information which we hope you find useful.

If a colleague has forwarded this email to you and you’d like to receive a copy of the newsletter in future please use the orange form on this page.

Table of contents

  1. Free course on teaching networks from Techpathways London
  2. New free resources from TLC – Valentine’s Day pseudocode poems and Happy Times cards
  3. Diversity in Computing posters
  4. NCCE Hubs – apply for your school to be 1 of 40 Hubs in England
  5. Discount code for The Power of Computational Thinking
  6. Applications open (for Sep 2019) to join Digital Schoolhouse
  7. QMUL is part of the Institute of Coding (IoC)
  8. LGBT History Month
  9. Royal Society funding for schools’ STEM projects

 

1. Free course on teaching networks from Techpathways London

QMUL is jointly running TechPathways London which is a new programme of free training and professional development for (formal and informal) educators of London’s young people aged 11-24.

Sign up here for a FREE course on 28 June 2018 on networking. This is for any teacher who teaches networks to learners of 11 to 24 years of age. Educators from non-formal settings who teach this topic are welcome too. This is a 1.5 day course split over Autumn and Summer terms, download a flyer for more. We expect this to sell out as only 15 places are available.

What digital skills do people need? Techpathways London survey for educators

In order to support educators to better equip their students to enter the digital workforce we (QMUL, CS4FN, Teaching London Computing and London CLC) are working with the Mayor of London to develop some CPD material and would like to hear from teachers/educators and people from industry in London to help us shape, and benchmark this.

• Survey for London educators

(There’s also a survey for industry people too, more information here).

 

2. New free resources from TLC

Valentine’s Day pseudocode poems & Happy Times cards

Pseudocode poems
Created by Paul Curzon, pseudocode poems are poems that work both as an algorithm/program and as a poem. They incorporate sequencing, selection or repetition constructs and other kinds of statements. You can implement them as an actual program – see what you think of our poems and have a go with your class to create some other ones https://teachinglondoncomputing.org/pseudocode-poems/.

As it’s Valentine’s Day on Thursday how about some Valentine Computing.

valentine heart

Happy Times
Created with Paul’s son Daniel ‘Happy Times’ is a fun Happy families / Rummy style card game where you collect sets of cards in the same times table to win. Playing helps younger children learn about the fun of numbers with a focus on times tables, multiplication, division and prime numbers. It also helps young children start to gain an understanding of the patterns in numbers. This is part of our expanding range of interdisciplinary computational thinking pages which cover the links between CT and other subjects, or look for Mix subjects in our website’s main menu.

 

3. Diversity in Computing posters

We have a set, free to download, of 30 ‘Diversity in Computing’ posters featuring a range of computer scientists from different backgrounds. There’s also a powerpoint slide stack of the posters which could be used as a looping presentation. We’ve had some lovely feedback from teachers about them and we’d love to know what you think of them. Jane Waite, their creator, wrote about the thinking behind them here https://equalities.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/2019/01/16/posters-celebrating-diversity-in-computer-science/

Celebrating diversity in computer science

 

4. NCCE Hubs – apply for your school to be 1 of 40 Hubs in England

“The National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE) invites proposals from interested parties to become one of around 40 Computing Hubs in England, supporting the work of the NCCE to July 2022. The final number will be determined by the need to provide a geographical spread across England, and will lead the delivery of computing CPD in local areas.”

If your school would like to become one of the 40 NCCE Hubs you’ll need to get your tender application in by 25th February 2019.

There are three Hub levels, find out more in the specification document and full application information available from https://www.stem.org.uk/opportunities-tender

 

5. Discount code for The Power of Computational Thinking

Paul Curzon and Peter McOwan’s book featuring “Games, magic and puzzles to help you become a computational thinker” published by World Scientific has a 30% discount code WSTPOCT30, available from https://doi.org/10.1142/q0054. Hardcover £48, softcover £20 before discount.

 

6. Applications open (for Sep 2019) to join Digital Schoolhouse

Ukie’s Digital Schoolhouse uses play-based learning to engage the next generation of pupils and teachers with the Computing curriculum. They are looking to expand their network of 34 Schoolhouses to total 50 across the country. The programme aims to reach 25,000 students and 5,000 teachers in 2019 and schools and colleges from across the country are invited to join them. More information in this PDF, and from their website. Applications close on 31 March 2019.

7. QMUL is part of the Institute of Coding (IoC)

The Institute of Coding (IoC) is an exciting, new nationwide initiative, bringing together a range of universities, industry, and training providers to develop computing skills for a rapidly changing and increasingly digital workplace.

We have an IoC page on our main departmental website outlining new events and courses coming up. There are a couple of 3-day ‘Introduction to Coding’ courses in June (registration isn’t open yet but keep an eye on the page).

11-13 June | 18-20 June 2019
Introduction to Coding
Join our beginner-friendly coding course. No prior coding knowledge needed! Registration opens soon.

 

8. LGBT History Month

To help your class celebrate LGBT History Month we have some information on LGBT computer scientists, also on that page is a link to a PDF version of the 14th issue of CS4FN magazine, which celebrated Alan Turing’s work and influence on computing.

 

9. Royal Society funding for schools’ STEM projects

Partnership Grants of up to £3000 are available to schools to enable students, aged 5–18, to carry out science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) projects with a STEM professional from academia or industry. Additionally we are looking to support projects on computing and data science. (emphasis added) The round will remain open until the end of the month for initial expressions of interest (Stage 1). Once the project has cleared the eligibility stage, teachers have until the end of March to submit their full application.

To find out more please visit the Royal Society’s website or contact the Education Outreach Team.

 

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