Q&A session with Dave Gibbs
The question and answer (Q&A) session is your opportunity to ask Dave specific questions about Teaching Computing. Dave will record responses to a selection of your questions posted below.
Take a look back at your discussions and your weekly reflection grids. What questions are outstanding? You might also like to discuss a specific issue about your teaching context.
Thank you for all you questions. We recorded a response to the following topics on 7 June. A transcript will be uploaded as soon as it has been processed.
Q&A topics
- 0m28s – Establishing starting points – Sarah
- Diagnostic questions
- See also Assessment for Learning in STEM Teaching for an introduction to Hinge-Point Questions and the STEM Teaching program
- 3m47s – Planning the curriculum – Daniel, Jordan and Meena
- 6m23s – Involving parents with e-safety – Rosa
- 9m07s – Scratch and choices of programming language – Meena, Jordan, Marianne
- 11m47s – Linking computing and robotics – Rick
- 14m38s – Web development offline/closed environments – Hilary
- 18m45s – Introducing functions – Lucy
- 21m53s – Learning objectives for KS2 (age 7-11) – Jordan
- 24m54s – Keyboard skills – Alison
Don’t forget you can join the STEM Group for Computing to continue your discussion on any of these topics with the wider Teaching Computing community.
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