CAS & King's College London Computing Teachers' Conference (CKC 2025)

Join us at the Computing at School & King’s College London (CKC) London Computing Teachers’ Conference for a day of exciting speakers and discussions, as well as hands-on workshops on classroom computing and more. 

This free in-person event in central London is open to Key Stage 3–5 computing teachers from London and beyond. It is an opportunity to discuss teaching best-practice with peers, discover new coding tools, and learn from academic staff from the Informatics department about new areas of research, expanding your knowledge beyond the curriculum.

Programme

The programme for the conference is now available.

Keynote

Don Syme from GitHub Next:  Trends in AI-Assisted Software Development

Talks, workshops & panels

The program includes presentations, workshops and panels. Registration will start at 9:30 for a 10:00 start and the conference will finish at 17:15. Session topics are:

• How to engage girls in programming (Hina Malik)
• Preparing students to tackle A level website and database projects (Laura James)
• Eight tips for teaching creative programming (Michael Kölling)
• Flock XR, the free 3D creation tool for young people (Dr Tracy Gardner and Rebecca Franks)
• Creative and fun Python teaching with Strype (Neil Brown, Pierre Weill-Tessier)
• TICE: Teacher Inquiry in Computing Education (Sue Sentance and others)
• Transitioning from school to university: What I wish I had known (Panel with Computer Science students)
• Elan – why do we need a new programming language for education? (Richard Pawson)
• Crafting with Code (Margaret Low MBE)
• Rethinking Computer Science Education in the Age of LLMs (Jie Zhang)
• Computing Education in Ireland: the past, present and future - with some lessons along the way! (Keith Quille)

Refreshments

Lunch as well as refreshments (tea, coffee and biscuits) will be provided during the event.

Accessibility

This event will take place in teaching rooms on the Strand Campus. The rooms are fully wheelchair accessible via lift, and there are accessible bathrooms in this building.

The nearest step-free underground station is Blackfriars, but a number of bus routes stop outside the Strand Campus.

If you have any questions or would like any further details, please email nmes-outreach@kcl.ac.uk.

Registration

Registration is done on this CAS website.  You must register by 12:00 (midday) Monday 23rd June for our planning purposes (e.g. catering, room allocations).  Our organising team will be in touch nearer the event date to ask for dietary requirements and ask you to confirm your place.