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Tag Archives: computer science concepts
Education system issues 1
I recently met a well qualified Digital Technology teacher who was made redundant due to falling school roll. There were two DT teachers at the particular school, one well qualified, one not so well qualified. How do you choose? On merit, qualifications, performance etc. , apparently not … … Continue reading
Walking in their shoes..
For various reasons I have found myself learning (re-learning) basic probability theory and PHP access to a MySQL database from a web page. Its actually quite hard without good on-line resources, teachers or examples that are fit for purpose. In … Continue reading
Teaching efficient programming if-elif
Teaching students the differences between lots of sequential if statements versus if-elif can be challenging. One technique I tried was: 1. Select eight students and write one of their names on a piece of paper e.g. Eliza 2. Line the 8 students … Continue reading
Extrapolation
I showed this to a couple of programming classes. By way of example that a computer program cannot extrapolate you can try.. (in a class of 15,16 and 17 year olds) if your age = 15 have a lolly else if your age … Continue reading
Testing the Education Payroll, a classroom learning opportunity.
By coincidence I was teaching my Digital Technologies class about system testing this week. I had just received a Novapay (MoE contracted) payslip, albeit that could it not be opened due to having a password on it (PDF file). I have no idea if … Continue reading
Facebook dunce
I have been showing students the above as a lesson in both: 1. Computer security. Reminding them not to forget to logout: “its not just your email and files at risk it’s your Facebook account”. 2. Testing systems is important. People will … Continue reading
Puzzling about thinking
A core competency required by students is thinking. For abstract thinking and problem solving good cognitive skills are required. I have presented a range of problems for students to solve such as this word problem……… What does it say? … Continue reading
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localhost 127.0.0.1
Teaching MySQL, PHP and XHTML in 2012. This means finding out exactly how localhost works. Thank goodness for course notes, YouTube and Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localhost Time for another donation to Wikipedia.
Computer Science for High Schools
I have just returned from the brilliant ” Computer Science for High Schools” Conference at Canterbury University hosted by Tim Bell, and sponsored by Google. It is clear that WEGC is definitely up there at the cutting edge compared with schools nationally. … Continue reading
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