La experiencia de Inglaterra tras 3 años del lanzamiento de la asignatura Computing.

1. Three years on -
what has England learnt?
Miles Berry
University of Roehampton
@mberry | #CodeEducaLAB
18 October 2017
These slides: bit.ly/CodeEducaLAB

2. Oates, 2010
Curriculum Coherence
The term ‘coherence’ is a highly precise
technical term: a national curriculum
should have content arranged in an order
which is securely based in evidence
associated with age-related progression,
and all elements of the system (content,
assessment, pedagogy, teacher training,
teaching materials, incentives and drivers
etc) should all line up and act in a
concerted way to deliver public goods
The term ‘coherence’ is a highly precise
technical term: a national curriculum
should have content arranged in an order
which is securely based in evidence
associated with age-related progression,
and all elements of the system (content,
assessment, pedagogy, teacher training,
teaching materials, incentives and drivers
etc) should all line up and act in a
concerted way to deliver public goods

4. Content

5. The computing curriculum
“We have replaced the old
information and
communications technology
curriculum with a new
computing curriculum, with
help from Google, Facebook
and some of Britain’s most
brilliant computer
scientists.”
Gove, 2013

6. Computing
DfE, 2013
A high-quality computing
education equips pupils to
use computational thinking
and creativity to understand
and change the world.

7. Foundations
Applications
Implications
CS, IT, DL

8. Before 5
Having their own ideas
● Thinking of ideas
● Finding ways to solve problems
● Finding new ways to do things
Making links
● Making links and noticing patterns
in their experience
● Making predictions
● Testing their ideas
● Developing ideas of grouping,
sequences, cause and effect
Choosing ways to do things
● Planning, making decisions about
how to approach a task, solve a
problem and reach a goal
● Checking how well their activities
are going
● Changing strategy as needed
● Reviewing how well the approach
worked
Development Matters, 2012

9. From 5 to 16
DfE, 2013

10. Qualifications: 14-16, 16-18

11. Assessment

12. Attainment target
DfE, 2013
By the end of each key stage,
pupils are expected to know,
apply and understand the
matters, skills and processes
specified in the relevant
programme of study.

13. Berry and Kemp, 2014

14. Test questions
The Commission recommends the
establishment of a national item bank of
assessment questions to be used both for
formative assessment in the classroom, to help
teachers evaluate understanding of a topic or
concept, and for summative assessment, by
enabling teachers to create bespoke tests for
assessment at the end of a topic or teaching
period.
McIntosh et al 2015

15. Project Quantum -
5,743 questions
● free
● formative
● online
● automatically marked
● high quality
● to support teaching
○ guiding content
○ measuring progress
○ identifying misconceptions
qv Oates et al 2015

16. GCSE Projects
AQA, 2016

17. A level questions
AQA, 2015

18. AQA, 2015

19. Pedagogy

20. programming = algorithms + code

22. The pragmatic teacher?
Computer Science instructors rely
mostly on intuition and anecdotal
evidence to make decisions about
changes in their daily teaching
practice… instructors used little
empirical data for deciding to make
a change, and for deciding whether
a change was successful or a
failure.
Fossati and Guzdial, 2011

23. n=339
Sentance and Csizmadia, 2016

24. What we’re learning about teaching computing
● It’s not about the code - think before you click
● You don’t have to use a computer
● It’s easier to read code than to write code
● It’s easier to edit code that to start from a blank screen
● Making things matters
● Pair programming is powerful
● Debugging helps grow mindsets
● Go for depth not breadth
● Look for interesting contexts
● This is for everyone

25. Rubber ducks!

26. Coding helps computational
thinking?
There was no evidence
that attending Code Club
had any effect on
children’s computational
thinking at the end of their
academic year attending
Code Club over and above
changes that would have
occurred anyway.
NFER, 2017

27. Teacher training

28. Teaching matters
The quality of an
education system
cannot exceed the
quality of its teachers
Interview South Korea 2007, cited in Barber and Mourshed 2007

29. Outstanding computing?
Pedagogy
ICT skills
CS
knowledge
Outstanding
teaching of
computing
+ =
CS
knowledge

31. Roehampton, 2015-16

32. Roehampton, 2016

33. Computing At School

34. Network of Excellence

35. Master teachers
Computing At School has swiftly
developed a cadre of Master Teachers
to support the development of
computing in schools. This study
indicates that Master Teachers and
CAS more generally are well-regarded
by teachers who have engaged with it.
CAS is making a significant difference
to the implementation of the new
computing curriculum.
Boylan and Willis, 2016

37. QuickStart Computing
Rt Hon Nicky Morgan MP, Secretary of State for Education:
“QuickStart Computing is an important national programme that will help all computing teachers to
confidently plan, teach and assess the new computing curriculum.
We value the funding that Microsoft has provided and it’s essential that we work in partnership
with industry and teacher networks like Computing At School.”

39. Teaching materials

40. Oates, 2014 and BESA / The Publishers Association, 2015

43. Code Club

44. 4,263 CAS Resources

45. BBC micro:bit

46. Raspberry Pi
“We recommend getting hold of a
Raspberry Pi and following one of the
many hardware and software tutorials
for it on the web. An additional
advantage of this route is that you will
gain familiarity with the UNIX command
line: a very valuable skill to have in the
Tripos!”
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory: Undergraduate Admissions

47. Incentives and drivers

48. Ipsos / MORI for BT, 2016

49. Training Scholarships
£27,500, tax free
Since 2013, BCS has been in partnership with the Department of Education
(DfE), offering a teaching scholarship aimed at creating the next generation of
Computing teachers for our Secondary schools. To date, the scheme has
proved a great success, with more than 1,000 applications over its four years.

50. DfE, 2016

51. Making the case
Computing matters to the future of
the UK, but much more importantly
it’s about giving every child the
essential thinking skills they need to
succeed in our digital, connected
society
CAS, 2017

52. DfE, 2013, qv BCS 2012
EBacc
Today, the Education Secretary
announced that computer science
will be added to the list of separate
science options (so there are now 4
separate sciences instead of the
traditional 3) in the EBacc. Pupils
who sit any 3 of the 4 separate
sciences and get at least a C in 2 of
them will get the EBacc.

53. Kemp, Wong and Berry, 2016

58. University entrance
Useful for:
Aeronautical engineering
Biochemistry
Biology
Chemical engineering
Economics
Chemistry
Civil engineering
Geology / Earth sciences
Electrical / Electronic
engineering
Engineering
Mathematics
Mechanical engineering
Medicine
Materials science
Optometry
Orthoptics
Pharmacy
Physics
Psychology
Sociology
Teacher training (!)
Russell Group

59. Shadbolt, 2016

61. Royal Society:
Computing Education
The curriculum is in its infancy and in the next few years students will become more and
more proficient in computing, meaning the curriculum, its assessment and the resources
available will need to evolve.
The Society wants to convene a consortium of educational partners, science
organisations and businesses willing and able to take forward a strategic plan to support
computing education in schools.
The first stage of the project will pull together evidence-based proposals for the
programmes and policies that need to be in place to make the school computing
curriculum flourish.
This will involve a six-month research stage to examine computing teaching in schools
today and establish priority objectives for the second stage. A report will be published in
mid 2017.

63. Concluding remarks
Writing a curriculum framework isn’t enough
Plan for coherence
Training and resources are vital for success
Pedagogy?
Try to get the transition right
CS for all

64. @mberry
m.berry@roehampton.ac.uk
milesberry.net
These slides: bit.ly/CodeEducaLAB
Questions?

65. URLs
These slides: bit.ly/intef17
My blog: milesberry.net
My email: m.berry@roehampton.ac.uk
Computing At School: computingatschool.org.uk
Barefoot Computing: barefootcas.org.uk
QuickStart Computing: primary.quickstartcomputing.org and bit.ly/qsks3
Project Quantum: bit.ly/projectquantum
CAS TV: youtube.com/user/computingatschool
Raspberry Pi: raspberrypi.org
Code Club: codeclubprojects.org
Hello World: helloworld.cc
micro:bit: microbit.org
Switched On Computing: switchedoncomputing.co.uk