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Future Schools 2016 Future Schools 2016 had a focus on computational thinking and coding. There lots of fantastic speakers and interesting delegates to network with. This year I spoke at 2 congresses on coding. In the coding congress the focus was on coding and the curriculum. In the young learners congress I spoke on introducing computational thinking using offline tasks and modifying or modifying existing tasks to cover computational thinking skills, this presentation included links to the curriculum also.  Links to my presentation and resources are and can also be found at iMerinet.weebly.com Tim Bell - csunplugged.org Tim presented activities from the csunplugged website.  Check that digit  This was almost a magic trick where Tim was able to predict the final number of a random water bottle in the audience.  Other error detection lessons are also listed in the Error Detection activities. Each activity on the csunplugged.org site is dense with links and information.

Updated September 2021 ----------------------------- The curriculum is overloaded, how to integrate new technologies and coding without adding additional content. The key is to integrate the ideas. This lesson took 2 hours and we completed it in one 2 hour session. Ensure you have equity with access to all tasks eg: boys don't dominate the using the technology while girls colour. Observe your students as some may need encouragement to do the coding and connect the Makey Makey. They may need some concrete scaffolding eg: provide them with a sample of code. Incomplete poster that shows the beginnings of lifecycle. Goal: Create a poster that illustrates the lifecycle of a tomato. The poster could be used to cover any outcomes or lesson ideas.  My Prelearning: 3 lessons Research on lifecycle of tomato Art lesson - still life on how to draw a tomato Design the Code - talk through with the students how to plant their code. When I press space Stop all other sounds Play