Monday, 5 October 2015

Subject Specialism Training - Introduction 5/10/15

Key issues

Time to learn
'winging it'
Keeping one step ahead
Dry subject - trying to 'pimp' up the resources/lessons
Programming - not comfortable 'modelling' it in front of the class
Hard to motivate students to WANT to learn

Impact on pupils

Attitudinal surveys - Finding out if their subject knowledge has improved, they are the feeling more motivated, etc

Admin

Alison Annetts and Nicky Henry - admin
mslc@soton.ac.uk

Support in school

Tig to teach 11m7!!

Computing with Tig - Intro

Definition of Computing: Solving real world problems using computers
History of Booting - boot-strapping - use as a starter task
History of Spam - spamming a thread using the Monty Python SPAM clip - use as a starter task
Computational thinking starters e.g. chicken crossing the road solution
GIF images have 256 colours (128, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1)
Abstraction (London tube map) --> what we turn it into
Decomposition --> breaking it down into manageable chunks
Systems analysis --> a problem solving technique that decomposes a system into its component pieces


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