On 17 August 2011 09:55, Alan O'Donohoe <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi. I am a teacher @teknoteacher at a secondary school in Preston, Lancs. I > am going to be teaching Python for the first time in a few weeks to 14/15 > year olds at my school as part of their Computing GCSE. I am trying to move > our school curriculum away from teaching MS Office to real computing! > After spending a long time searching for the write model or language in > which to teach programming, I have finally settled on Python. It seems > perfect for what I was looking for. > > I am intending to come to meeting on Thurs 18th August at Madlab and have > persuaded a teaching colleague from another school to attend, Don Jones > @fallibroomeICT > > If you are interested, on Thursday I could give a short presentation on the > Computing GCSE and how I think Python fits in and share some of the free > resources I have discovered while I have been planning. It would be useful > to open this up to a discussion later to hear what other Python users have > to contribute or suggest. > > Here is a blog I wrote about the last Computing At School meeting we > hosted... http://caspreston.blogspot.com/ It would be wonderful to see a presentation on the Computing GCSE, and especially if it involves Python! I know that several members of our group (myself included) have an interest in computing in education. You'd be very welcome and I look forward to seeing you tomorrow! Cheers, Safe -- To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] Feeds: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west/feeds More options: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west
