Tag: Education
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CODE Portal and David Jonassen
First I want to point you towards the PDF a lot of my research is based on. This great PDF is where I read about David Jonassen’s “five essential aspects to learn in a meaningful and effective manner”. http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/data/uploads/CASPrimaryComputing.pdf (See pages 19 and 20) David Jonassen’s five essential aspects to learn in a meaningful and […]
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Children Participate, they don’t Win and they don’t Lose
When I was at School, we won or we lost. Participation was a giving, need to be in it to win it. You would be right in assuming that I didn’t always win and I didn’t get picked for the School football team. I admit not being picked for the team caused new feelings at […]
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CODE Portal Creator Responsibilities
I am the creator of CODE Portal and after finding a “Teacher of Computing” vacancy in my own town I discovered that I might have new responsibilities. After reading about the teaching position I realized that I’m not just creating a tool. I’m also acting as a teacher through that tool. I’m not a qualified […]
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CODE Portal Project Phases
Technically the project is bigger than this short list of phases but what I’m going to type here should help you to understand that the CODE Portal project is serious enough to be broken into many, equally important steps. Phase 1: Planning/Research Days of research has already gone into the CODE Portal project. Time has been […]
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CODE Portal Research Sources
CODE Portal is a little unorthodox in some ways so I had to do a lot of research. This post covers some of the sites I got to know and still need to iterate over for the sake of further clarity. I went through each of the websites below, one at a time, getting to know […]
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CODE Portal Prototype Needs Avenxo Theme by KaijuThemes
CODE Portal is an ambitious project for UK Primary Schools and potentially Secondary Schools much later in the future. The core idea behind CODE Portal is something much like Open-Source, that is what makes it a great idea. There many free online solutions for teaching coding, but CODE Portal will be owned by Schools and […]
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CODE Portal for Primary Schools
Teachers are now expected to learn a high level of Computer Science, basically playing catch up in a fast changing world while also managing everything else that comes with a teaching career. The CODE Portal will include learning material for different age groups, including adults.
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