Description
The Bloomsbury Curriculum Basics series provides non-specialist primary school teachers with subject knowledge and full teaching programmes in a variety of key primary curriculum subjects.
This is a revised and up-to-date hands-on guide to planning and delivering primary computing lessons in a fun and refreshing way. Updates include the following:
- Coding
- New uses and capabilities of the program Scratch
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and virtual reality, including how to create art using AI and how to use ChatGPT.
The teaching ideas are well-structured, engaging, easy to implement, and use mostly free tools that operate across the many digital platforms that primary schools use, while keeping in line with National Curriculum guidelines for KS1 and KS2. Each chapter offers practitioners an essential summary of all the information and vocabulary needed to successfully implement exciting computing lessons that will keep your class riveted!
A revised and updated easy-to-follow guide to teaching primary computing, with ready-to-go lesson plan ideas for teachers who may not be specialists but who have to teach or co-ordinate this subject in their schools.
About the Author
Martin Burrett is a primary teacher, speaker, editor of UKEd magazine and administrator for Twitter's UKEdChat. Martin has written widely on educational issues for many journals and is the author of 100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: Coding. Follow him on Twitter @ICTmagic.
Book Information
ISBN 9781801993968
Author Martin Burrett
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint Bloomsbury Education
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 438g
Dimensions(mm) 244mm * 188mm * 12mm
