CAS Conference (Birmingham) 2015

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Story of the day

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Slides and Presentations

Plenaries/Keynotes 

• Computational Thinking - Unplugged! (Paul Curzon)  See Teaching London Computing for linked resources
• An Open Learning approach to Computational Thinking (Aida Martinez)
• Inspiring a Generation - the BBC Micro Bit (Cerys Griffiths)

Research Stream

1. What we found out and how we did it (Part I)

2. What we found out and how we did it (Part II) Teachers' Perspectives on successful strategies for teaching Computing - Sue Sentance & Andrew Csizmadia

3. Where Do I Begin - Experiences of Teacher-Researchers --- no slides used ---

4. Plan-Your-Research Workshop Task-based workshop 

Workshops

• Teach great computer science in primary with Barefoot Computing (Zoe Ross)
• Showcasing the BBC Micro Bit
• An Insight into the Digital Schoolhouse Programme (Shahneila Saeed)
• Capturing attention for Computer Science: from Parents’ Evenings to Assemblies, from KS1 to A-level and beyond (Peter Dickman)
• The new A level (AQA, OCR, WJEC) (Kevin Bond, Robert Leeman, David Pearce()
• Resources for CS - interactive and self driven (Mr Oli Howson)
• Assessing Computing (especially programming)(Chris Coetzee)
• Codio - Comprehensive Teacher Support for the New Curriculum (Philip Snalune, Freddie May) 
• Boolean Logic and more advanced logics (Aiden Delaney)
• Fantastical Computer Systems and Computational Thinking (Jason Budge)
• Helping primary and secondary schools to deliver the new computing curriculum successfully using the QuickStart CPD Toolkit for teachers (Yvonne Walker)
• Unplugged Programming KS2-KS3 (Dave White)
• Turtle System (Peter Millican)
• Explorers need maps: Abstraction, representation and graphs (Paul Curzon) See Teaching London Computing for linked resources 
• The new A level (AQA, OCR, WJEC) (Kevin Bond, Robert Leeman, David Pearce)
• What’s a programming paradigm anyway? (Neil Brown)
• Are we giving enough opportunities to think outside the box? (Dharini Krishnamoorthy)
• Tools to teach the other bits (Ben Stradling) 
• Programming Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi (Sarah Zaman)
• Narrowing the gap between PP and non PP students (Chloe Gardner)
• Digital Schoolhouse - Inspirational Computing (Shahneila Saeed)
• The Magic of Computer Science (Paul Curzon)  See Teaching London Computing for linked resources 
• What is OOP and why does it matter?  (Michael Kölling)
• Help me teach GCSE Computing (Alan O’Donohoe)
• Using Cospace to teach Computer Science (Nicky Hughes)
• Computing in Yr 7 - Keep them busy (Mrs Manique Wilson) 
• Where are the girls?!? Strategies to bridge the gender gap. (Pete Marshman)
• Scratch Across The Curriculum (Matthew Parry) All resources available here 
• Showcasing the BBC Micro Bit Howard Baker (Editor, BBC Learning) & Jo Claessens (Producer, BBC Learning)
• Transition from blocks to text-based programming with Greenfoot 3 (Michael Kölling and Neil Brown) (No slides; description of frame-based editing; Greenfoot 3 download)
• Introduction to programming with TouchDevelop (Simon Johnson)
• Computer Science PGCE - Preparing for the Future  (Mr Michael Jones)
• Transforming expectations: Computing Science - a doorway through to a career in visual effects (VFX). (Tony Micilotta)
• Promoting problem solving and resilience and combatting learnt helplessness (Phil Bagge) 
• Encouraging girls into IT (Trevor Bragg)
• New OCR GCE Computer Architecture unplugged (Christine Swan): Computer Architecture unplugged presentation, CPU Board Game and instructions, SNAP card game, LMC card game, CPU worksheet.

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