by Rebecca Franks | Jul 16, 2024 | Education Reform
Introduction We have been captivated by the discussions around the possibility of changing the GCSE qualification for Computer Science in England. Spurred on by the findings from the SCARI computing report (PDF), we have created our draft proposal for a brand new...
by Rebecca Franks | Jul 10, 2024 | Education Reform
The thought experiment I decided to do a little thought experiment this morning and see if Chat GPT could design a new computing curriculum based on the English national curriculum and the current GCSE Computer Science subject content document. I created a prompt that...
by Rebecca Franks | Jul 9, 2024 | Education Reform
Background On 27th June, Rebecca Franks was invited to the launch of the report from the SCARI computing project. The report is a culmination of a three year long project to dig into the data to establish a picture of the state of computing education in England. You...
by Rebecca Franks | Nov 20, 2023 | Announcement
Once we reach December, kids just want to do festive activities so why not give them what they want – with plenty of coding and creativity of course! At Flip Computing we’ve put together four free activities from the 24 Days of Scratch Coding advent calendar...
by Rebecca Franks | Nov 13, 2023 | Announcement
On 8th November 2023, Flip Computing released ‘24 Days of Scratch Coding’. This activity book gives young people (and the grown ups around them) 24 winter themed Scratch activities that could be used as an advent calendar in the lead up to Christmas. Each day, young...
