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What are your plans? Ada Lovelace is truely cross curricula, her father was a poet, she studied maths and science and she is credited with being the first programmer before there were computers to be programmed.  Why Ada Lovelace Day Matters. Who is Ada Lovelace? Source Did you know Lord Byron the poet only had one legitimate a daughter? Her name Ada Lovelace Byron. His wife -  Lady Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron ,  only tolerated his philandering ways for a short while and left him when Ada was 8 weeks old. Lady Anne had Ada tutored in Maths and Science so she was not go the way of her father. Ada went on to study Advanced mathematics at a time when women did not study mathematics or go to university. At 17, Ada went on to work with Charles Babbage who is credited with inventing the first programmable computer.  Ada was later asked to translate an article on Babbage's analytical engine that had been written by Italian engineer Luig...

Computational thinking is a buzz word in many countries across the world. This blog gives 5 ways to identify if you are teaching computational thinking. The BBC website has a definition of computational thinking that clearly lays out the components of computational thinking. There are four components of computational thinking decomposition   - breaking down a complex problem or system into smaller, more manageable parts pattern recognition   – looking for similarities among and within problems abstraction   – focusing on the important information only, ignoring irrelevant detail algorithms   - developing a step-by-step solution to the problem, or the rules to follow to solve the problem Each cornerstone is as important as the others. They are like legs on a table - if one leg if missing, the table will probably collapse. Correctly applying all four techniques will help when programming a computer. You are teaching coding Coding is the most comm...

Significant Challenges Impeding Technology Adoption in K-12 Education See Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , of this series on the Horizon Report 2015 Difficult Challenges: Those that we understand but for which solutions are elusive  Personalizing Learning: The move toward personalised learning has been discussed for many years. Previously termed Student Centred Learning, there is much research discussing this concept for many years.  1990 , 1997 , 2000 . Another term that impacts on personalised learning is differentiation , where we make adjustments to cater for the needs of all abilities in the classroom. The evolution of personalised learning has been made more possible by technology.  Personalised learning challenges the traditional educational paradigm. For this model to progress we need to modify teaching pedagogies from traditional methods of imparting knowledge to teachers facilitating learning. This will require cultural and attitudinal change from teachers...