Learn To Code

Code Academy have set up Code Year. A lesson a week that over the course of the year will teach you how to code.

Slate suggest each lesson will run to about 5 hours. Which is a hefty commitment. But I’ve signed up and will be encouraging learners at school to do the same. With our big push on Computing and the future ICT curriculum changes on the horizon, it’s about time I can walk the talk!

Source: Slate

Ban Calculators?

Just catching up on last week’s reading and found the Conservative’s latest idea from the NC Review. Banning calculators in early years of Primary school.

As someone planning a one device per child school you’d think I’d be up in arms. But I teach maths. And most pupils arrive at our school aged 11 and don’t know their times tables. And it genuinely does hold them back for the rest of their mathematical (and general) lives. Technology is wonderful, but basic literacy and numeracy skills are still vital and will be for the foreseeable future.

What do you think?