Cover image for PRIMARY COMPUTING & DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES : KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING & PRACTICE /cAuthors, KEITH TURVEY, JOHN POTTER, JEREMY BURTON WITH JONATHAN ALLEN, & JANE SHARP
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PRIMARY COMPUTING & DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES : KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING & PRACTICE /cAuthors, KEITH TURVEY, JOHN POTTER, JEREMY BURTON WITH JONATHAN ALLEN, & JANE SHARP
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ix, 317 pages : illustrations, 24 cm.
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9781473961562
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This book offers practical guidance on how to teach the computing curriculum in primary schools, coupled with the subject knowledge needed to teach it. This Seventh Edition is a guide to teaching the computing content of the new Primary National Curriculum. It includes many more case studies and practical examples to help you see what good practice in teaching computing looks like. It also explores the use of ICT in the primary classroom for teaching all curriculum subjects and for supporting learning in every day teaching. New chapters have been added on physical computing and coding and the importance of web literacy, bringing the text up-to-date. Computing is both a subject and a powerful teaching and learning tool throughout the school curriculum and beyond into many areas of children’s learning lives. This book highlights the importance of supporting children to become discerning and creative users of digital technologies as opposed to passive consumers.

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What do you need to know to teach computing in primary schools? How do you teach it?

This book offers practical guidance on how to teach the computing curriculum in primary schools, coupled with the subject knowledge needed to teach it. This Seventh Edition is a guide to teaching the computing content of the new Primary National Curriculum. It includes many more case studies and practical examples to help you see what good practice in teaching computing looks like. It also explores the use of ICT in the primary classroom for teaching all curriculum subjects and for supporting learning in every day teaching. New chapters have been added on physical computing and coding and the importance of web literacy, bringing the text up-to-date. Computing is both a subject and a powerful teaching and learning tool throughout the school curriculum and beyond into many areas of children's learning lives. This book highlights the importance of supporting children to become discerning and creative users of digital technologies as opposed to passive consumers.


Author Notes

Jonathan Allen is a New York Times best selling author and an award winning political journalist. He was started out as the Washington bureau chief for Bloomberg News and the White House bureau chief for Politico. He is a winner of the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for reporting on Congress and the Sandy Hume Memorial Award for excellence in political journalism.

He is a graduate of the University of Maryland and lives on Capitol Hill. Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign, his second book with Amie Parnes, debuted on The New York Times Best Seller List just like their first book - HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton.

(Bowker Author Biography)


Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsp. vii
About the authorsp. ix
Introductionp. 1
Section A Digital Technologies in Teaching and Learningp. 17
1 Organising digital technologies in your classroomp. 21
2 Planning for digital technologies across the curriculump. 35
3 Panning to use digital technologies in the Early Years Foundation Stagep. 58
4 Digital display technologiesp. 65
5 Mobile technologiesp. 76
Section B Primary Computing and the National Curriculump. 85
6 Planning for primary computing as a subjectp. 89
7 Assessment in primary computingp. 104
8 Computational thinking and programmingp. 115
9 Physical computingp. 139
10 Web literacy (including coding for the web)p. 155
11 Digital media/digital literaciesp. 172
12 Writing with digital technologiesp. 199
13 Social media - tools for communicating, collaborating and publishingp. 217
14 Graphing programsp. 224
15 Databases and spreadsheetsp. 243
Section C Digital Technologies and the Professional Teacherp. 265
16 Professional use of digital technologiesp. 269
17 Safety; online and offp. 276
18 Ethical and legal issuesp. 289
Self-assessment questionsp. 294
Answers to self-assessment questionsp. 301
Indexp. 311