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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Programming Pedagogy in Secondary Schools: Inspiring Computing Teaching
Raspberry Pi Foundation and National Centre for Computing Education
In this course, learners examined different pedagogies suitable for use with 11- to 14-year-olds studying Computer Science, such as unplugged activities and PRIMM. They also experienced these approaches being used in a programming project, and created a lesson plan using one of these approaches.
3 weeks, 2 hours per week
Dr Sue Sentance
Chief Learning Officer
Raspberry Pi Foundation
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe a range of pedagogical approaches suitable for use with 11- to 14-year-olds
- Demonstrate an understanding of how these approaches can be used in the classroom
- Evaluate the suitability of each approach for a particular audience and teaching objective
- Produce a lesson plan using one of the pedagogical techniques addressed in the course
Syllabus
- Computational thinking
- The unplugged approach
- Use-Modify-Create and PRIMM
- Worked examples and live coding
- Pair programming
- Parson’s Problems
- Using functions, loops, variables, and selection to create a rock-paper-scissors game
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Issued on 22nd December 2020
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