Coding and computer skills are now being taught starting in primary school, yet many parents are unfamiliar with this aspect of their children's education. The document discusses the importance of parental involvement in their children's coding education by exploring block-style programming, online safety, and ways for families to engage with coding together through projects on websites like Scratch. It also provides examples of coding projects and instructions for building an infrared bird box using a Raspberry Pi camera.

1. The Importance of Parental Involvement
- in kids’ coding / computing
Premalatha Balan

3. Computer learning
• No longer “technology study” for secondary school or later
• Basic reading / writing
• Maths / English
• “Scratch” programming - in year3
• Not many parents know this

4. Digital as part of their learning environment

6. Coding is Creativity. Defining it as a
nerdy, maths related thing is a single
story.
Stop at 3:19
Coding as creativity in
the first bit by Ken
Robinson
Replace “bamboo”
with “coding” in the
second bit Elora Hardy
“Stereotyping coding”
as “maths only related
thing” in the third bit
Chimamanda Adichie

7. How do children do it?
Block style programming

8. The digital natives

9. Easy to build
The world as they
know it

10. Online Safety

11. Parental controls and timed “computer time”
• Only at home
• Reduced learning
• Not necessarily monitored
computer access
• Not necessarily unaccessed by
online threats
• Smart phones
• Other children’s phones

12. • https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/170041077/
• That was my project
• https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/176018144/
• This one is copied from someone else.
• https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/12113414/
• Same concept – see the difference in interaction
with peers

13. Things children enjoy as a family together

14. • https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/170041077/
• That was my project

15. Infared bird box using raspberrypi
What you will need
Hardware
• Raspberry Pi NOIR camera module
• 3 or more x Female-to-female jumper leads
• Some 220 Ohm 1% Resistors
• Some Infrared LEDs (5mm 890nm)
Software installation
• You’ll need to make sure you have the
following packages installed to proceed with
the workshop.
• ffmpeg
• Instructions for installing ffmpeg are provided
here (but I couldn’t find it)

16. Thank you
Premalatha Balan