Past Events

Teaching primary learners how to be data citizens (9 May 2023) Kate Farrell (University of Edinburgh) Data science is the ability to collect, analyse, interpret, and communicate and ask questions about data. As technology makes it easier to collect vast amounts of data, the skills to use data to solve problems will become even more important to today’s learners. This session will introduce you to how data literacy can be taught in primary and early years education across different curricular areas.…

Young children’s ScratchJr project scores and processes across a 12-week coding curriculum (6 June 2023) Apittha Unahalekhaka (Tufts University) This seminar will present two ScratchJr studies, which were part of the Coding as Another Language (CAL) project. The first study is the development and testing of the ScratchJr Project Rubric, which has been used to evaluate children’s purposeful creation on the coding and project design aspects of ScratchJr. The study showed that although children (ages 6–8) were able to create more complex projects over…

The 18th WiPSCE Conference on Primary and Secondary Computing Education Research Research in primary and secondary computing education is a young field with strong ties to national educational systems. Nevertheless, its theories, methods, and results are internationally applicable and of interest to researchers and practitioners in the field. WiPSCE is the premier international venue for school-level computing education. It aims to improve the exchange of research and practice relevant to teaching and learning in primary and secondary computing education, teacher…

https://sigcse.cs.manchester.ac.uk/2023/09/07/sigman-40/