Prof Miles Berry
@milesberry.net
Professor of Computing Education at University of Roehampton
In this thought-provoking episode, we sit down with Miles Berry, a leading voice in education, computing, and teacher training. We dive into the evolving role of technology in schools, current teacher training frameworks, Ai and more. www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-qh...
LATEST PODCAST: "Will AI revive the art of tinkering?" @beccip.bsky.social gives practical AI tips. @milesberry.net favours a knowledge-based curriculum but knows nothing about K-pop. And we ask "Is CT 2.0 just tinkering?" #TeamCompSci #CSED #caschat buff.ly/8rFN8Bl
NEW PODCAST EP: "Will AI revive the art of tinkering?" We ask "Is CT 2.0 just tinkering?" @beccip.bsky.social gives practical AI tips. @milesberry.net favours a knowledge-based curriculum but knows nothing about K-pop. 50 minutes of pure gold. #TeamCompSci #CSED #caschat pod.httcs.online/e/s2e05/
Playing with the offer and uptake data for GCSE CS in summer 2024. Still big variations by deprivation indicators...
The Big Computing Leadership Conference '24 wrap up! @wearecomputing.bsky.social @milesberry.net @janewaite.bsky.social @httcs.online @mwimpennys.bsky.social @duckstar.bsky.social @petermarshman.bsky.social @sciencehub.bsky.social @beccip.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWRS...
The Big Computing Leadership Conference - Wrap up of 2024
YouTube video by Phil Wickins
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“Generative AI tools can make certain written tasks quicker and easier, but it cannot replace the judgement and deep subject knowledge of a human expert.” www.gov.uk/government/p...
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education
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@stephenfry.bsky.social on the danger of an educated elite and a trained majority. cf knowledge vs skills? #bett25
I like @stephenfry.bsky.social’s idea of more open assessment with AI, as a conversation exploring and drawing out what a child knows, Socratic method and assessment as learning. #bett25
“You can’t invent flying without putting in air traffic control, otherwise everyone dies“ @stephenfry.bsky.social at #bett25
@stephenfry.bsky.social at #bett25 suggests that the flourishing of AI is a consequence of Moore’s law and Big Data, rather than human ingenuity.
I liked Bridget Phillipson’s emphasis on the importance of the relationship between pupils and teachers, as well as addressing the digital divide and inclusion. Optimism about AI to help with workload, but addressing recruitment, retention and school attendance may be more complex… #bett25
Bridget Phillipson says we must close the digital divide. Use of Ed tech should be based on evidence, including ‘the latest neuroscience’ #bett25
Duncan Verry opens #bett25, saying education has massively changed over the last 40 years, since RM launched the Nimbus at the first BETT at the Barbican back in ‘85. Has it?
Wonderblocks is a new CBeebies programme, released on Jan 20th, that aims to develop children's early computational thinking skills & problem solving. I'm very proud to have been involved. @compscitsui.bsky.social @milesberry.net @computingatschool.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
CBeebies unveils new educational animation series Wonderblocks to teach pre-coding skills
New educational series launches on CBeebies and BBC iPlayer from Monday 20 January
bbc.co.uk
The third season of Charles doesn’t have the same dramatic thrust as the first.
Dear Computing Teachers, as the term ends and you get a well-deserved break, we have a Christmas present for you… …from January, the entire Codetoday Unlimited platform is FREE FOR SCHOOLS 50+ hrs of Python videos from beginner to advanced Use them as you wish Read more in rest of thread…
It’s a trick question. Interestingly, Chat GPT answers in the passive voice.
Hmm! It said I won then overwrote it with a message saying it had won...so it learnt to be a poor loser from humans perhaps? :-) I do love Nim though. Randomly reminds me of Sprouts (and even better Brussel Sprouts) as also wonderful games as learnt the maths behind them at same time (from Conway)
Inspired by Simon Peyton Jones and @beccip.bsky.social at #BCLC24 - here's Claude playing Nim claude.site/artifacts/48...
Claude Artifact
Try out Artifacts created by Claude users
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Taken (a)back by the photo from the launch of Quick Start compuitng back in Jan 2015, shown by Simon Peyton Jones in his keynote for #BCLC24 - copy online here: pure.roehampton.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...
Safety and security day with my PGCE computing trainees today. GPT o1 has done a fine job with cracking a random substitution cipher. It shows its working.
New DfE ITT Computing figures. Numbers are up on the last two years, but so is the shortfall from the DfE's own target.
I visited #ElectricDreams at Tate Modern earlier this evening - early, digital art. It’s stunning! If my computing teacher friends on here are looking for trip ideas, this should be high on your list! #CSEd
Can anyone recommend a free, easy to setup autograder for Python programming? Github Classroom looks useful, but seems tricky for secondary pupils. Replit used to be good for this but now costs... #CSEd
Ta da - we are live :D go.bsky.app/JnLGoFt Kind of wish I'd called it Public Engagement and #SciComm in Computer Science but I also like that there's a bug in it ;) btw the name is exactly 50 characters (the limit), pleasing.
EdTech systems are often less about teaching than they are monitoring. Read more about the increasing web of surveillance children are experiencing in schools.
Studying under Surveillance: the securitisation of learning
Increasingly, EdTech systems are less about teaching than about monitoring, security and ‘safety’ – although those aims are often mixed with wider educational claims.
privacyinternational.org
I’d read that folks had noticed some gender bias in the ‘personalities’ of Notebook LM’s enthusiastic hosts. I was pleased that the one I caused to be produced for my trainees this week had the male voice introduce the female voice with ‘This week, we have an expert with us…’
Have just started reading Shipman’s Out, and was reminded of this, also from 2019, in the shadows when Johnson became PM
