Schlagwort: Hello World
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Beyond phone bans: Empowering students to critically navigate and reimagine technology
Reading Time: 6 minutesAmidst heated discussion of smartphones and their impacts on young people’s lives, it’s become a frequent recommendation to ban phones in schools. Below I summarise the research evidence on smartphone bans (it’s mixed) and share tips for computing educators on how to constructively address the topic with their learners and empower them…
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Teaching digital literacy without devices
Reading Time: 5 minutesLack of access to devices presents teachers with challenges in any setting. In schools, money is often limited and digital technology may not be the priority when buildings need maintenance or libraries need replenishing. This issue is particularly important when the very subject you teach relies on and relates to devices that…
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How to bring digital literacy into your classroom: practical tips from the Hello World podcast
Reading Time: 4 minutesAre you looking to strengthen digital literacy in your classroom? In the latest episode of the Hello World podcast, three experienced teachers from the USA and the UK share practical tips they’ve used in their classrooms to help their students build digital literacy. Whether you’re just getting started with digital literacy or…
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Hello World #26 out now: Digital Literacy
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe often believe we understand the meaning of ‘digital literacy’, but it can be a misleading term. Do we mean digital skills? Online safety? Where does AI fit in? As computer science education evolves to meet the needs of our increasingly digital world, we believe that true digital literacy empowers young people…
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Three ways to help students learn about the impact of technology
Reading Time: 5 minutesAs adults, it’s easy for us to see the impact technology has had on society and on our lives. Yet when I tell pupils that, within my lifetime, it wasn’t always illegal to hold your mobile phone to your ear and have a call while driving, they are horrified. They are living…
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Ocean Prompting Process: How to get the results you want from an LLM
Reading Time: 5 minutesHave you heard of ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude, but haven’t tried any of them yourself? Navigating the world of large language models (LLMs) might feel a bit daunting. However, with the right approach, these tools can really enhance your teaching and make classroom admin and planning easier and quicker. That’s where the…
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Hello World #25 out now: Generative AI
Reading Time: 3 minutesSince they became publicly available at the end of 2022, generative AI tools have been hotly discussed by educators: what role should these tools for generating human-seeming text, images, and other media play in teaching and learning? Two years later, the one thing most people agree on is that, like it or…
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Hello World #24 out now: Impact of tech
Reading Time: 3 minutesDo you remember a time before social media? Mobile phones? Email? We are surrounded by digital technology, and new applications impact our lives whether we engage with them or not. Issue 24 of Hello World, out today for free, gives you ideas for how to help your learners think openly and critically…
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Season 6 of the Hello World podcast is here
Reading Time: 3 minutesThrough the Hello World podcast, we help to connect computing educators around the world and share their experiences. In each episode, we expand on a topic from a recent Hello World magazine issue. After 5 seasons, and a break last year, we are back with season 6 today. Episode 1: Do kids…
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Hello World #23 out now: Global exchange of computing education ideas
Reading Time: 3 minutesHow is computing taught around the globe? Our brand-new, free issue of Hello World, out today, paints a picture for you. It features stories from over 20 countries, where educators, researchers, and volunteers share their work and their personal challenges and joys in bringing computing education to their part of the world.…
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Teaching about AI explainability
Reading Time: 6 minutesIn the rapidly evolving digital landscape, students are increasingly interacting with AI-powered applications when listening to music, writing assignments, and shopping online. As educators, it’s our responsibility to equip them with the skills to critically evaluate these technologies. A key aspect of this is understanding ‘explainability’ in AI and machine learning (ML)…
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AI isn’t just robots: How to talk to young children about AI
Reading Time: 5 minutesYoung children have a unique perspective on the world they live in. They often seem oblivious to what’s going on around them, but then they will ask a question that makes you realise they did get some insight from a news story or a conversation they overheard. This happened to me with…
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Hello World #22 out now: Teaching and AI
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecent developments in artificial intelligence are changing how the world sees computing and challenging computing educators to rethink their approach to teaching. In the brand-new issue of Hello World, out today for free, we tackle some big questions about AI and computing education. We also get practical with resources for your classroom.…
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Introducing the Hello World newsletter
Reading Time: 2 minutesLaunched six years ago, Hello World magazine is the education magazine about computing and digital making. It’s made for educators by educators, and a community of teachers around the world reads and contributes to every issue. We’re now starting a monthly Hello World newsletter to bring you more great content for computing…
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Hello World #21 out now: Focus on primary computing education
Reading Time: 2 minutesHow do we best prepare young children for a world filled with digital technology? This is the question the writers in our newest issue of Hello World respond to with inspiration and ideas for computing education in primary school. It is vital that young children gain good digital literacy skills and understanding…
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Preparing young children for a digital world | Hello World #21
Reading Time: 5 minutesHow do we teach our youngest learners digital and computing skills? Hello World‘s issue 21 will focus on this question and all things primary school computing education. We’re excited to share this new issue with you on Tuesday 30 May. Today we’re giving you a taste by sharing an article from it,…
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Computing curriculum fundamentals | Hello World #20
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhy are computing systems at the heart of our computing curriculum design? Senior Learning Manager Sway Grantham from the Foundation team explains in her article from the brand-new issue of Hello World, our free magazine for computing educators, out today. Whether you plan lessons on a Computing topic, develop curriculum content, or…
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Reflecting on what we teach in computing education and how we teach it
Reading Time: 5 minutesReflecting is important within any line of work, and computing education is no different. Reflective practice is always valuable, whether you support learners in a non-formal setting, such as a Code Club or CoderDojo, or in a more formal environment, such as a school or college. When you reflect, you might for…
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Out now: Hello World’s special edition on Computing content
Reading Time: 3 minutesHello World, our free magazine for computing and digital making educators, has just published its second special edition: The Big Book of Computing Content. A special edition on the content we teach in the Computing classroom While Hello World‘s first special edition, The Big Book of Computing Pedagogy, focused on how we…
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A taxonomy of Computing content for education
Reading Time: 5 minutesSupporting educators to provide high-quality computing education has always been integral to our mission. In 2018, we began creating more learning resources for formal education settings. The UK government had recently announced future investment in supporting computing educators. Schools in England were offering the national Computing curriculum established in 2014. (In the…
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Back to school 2022: Our support for teachers
Reading Time: 9 minutesThe summer months are an exciting time at the Foundation: you can feel the buzz of activity as we prepare for the start of a new school year in many parts of the world. Across our range of fantastic (and free) programmes, everyone works hard to create new and improved resources that…
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Repair cafés in computing education | Hello World #19
Reading Time: 5 minutesMany technology items are disposed of each year, either because they are broken, are no longer needed, or have been upgraded. Researchers from Germany have identified this as an opportunity to develop a scheme of work for Computing, while at the same time highlighting the importance of sustainability in hardware and software…
