CAS Conference (Birmingham) 2014
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Keynotes
Tony Hey - the computing universe: origins of computational thinking
Quintin Cutts - CT is the new CS - isn't it just as hard though?
Seminars
Peter Millican
Exploring the social and ethical dimensions of the Computing curriculum - Adrian Mee
Aaron Sloman
(A) Teachmeet web page:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/compthink.html TYPES OF COMPUTATIONAL THINKING: What Forms of computational thinking will our children need when they grow up?
(B) Slides prepared for the talk:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#talk105 The second link provides PDF versions, of both the original slides prepared for the ALT conference presentation in 2012
Talk 105 (2012 original): What is computational thinking? Who needs it? Why? How can it be learnt? (Can it be taught?)
(also available in flash format at [slideshare.net](slideshare.net), previously referenced on the CAS forum)
- Computational Thinking and progression from school to university to employment - Peter Dickman
No slides: I spoke about the general educational and employment value
of Computational Thinking and the timescales involved in education.
Workshops
Sensing our World - Margaret Low
What's in it for the Learners - Julia Briggs
Java for GCSE in 7 levels - Chris Coetzee
CS Unplugged Activities - Peter Marshman
Raspberry Pi, What's the Point? - Clifford French
Preparing ICT Teachers for Confident Computing - Ilia Avroutine (see attached files) additionally: using Excel and VBA to teach Little Man Computer
Small Basic - programming for curriculum and administration - John Hughes
App Inventor for GCSE - Trevor Bragg
CAS Certification - Sue Sentance
Investigating Images - Roger Davies
System Management project with Raspberry Pi - Simon Marsden
Creative Pedagogies for (Primary) Computing - Zoe Ross
Java on the Raspberry Pi - Neil Brown, Fabio Hedayioglu
Managing the transition from ICT to Computing - Mark Dorling
Hack the Curriculum - Rebecca Franks
Complete a GCSE Coursework in under 1 hour - Alan O'Donohoe
How to learn to code and teach coding rapidly (Python JavaScript and C) - Ajit Jaokar
Raspberry pi in primary Schools - Sarah Zaman
cs4fn - Paul Curzon
YOY? --- Computational Thinking and Programming - Dave White
Countdown to Computing -