Rachel

A very interesting read - currently 99p on Kindle www.amazon.co.uk/Range-Genera...

The cards look great - very pleased with my recent order which will be making an appearance in my first lessons with GCSE classes

We got a review of marking for my daughter’s AQA GCSE Comp Sci last year- went up by 7 marks across the 2 papers…

Just managed to get my new Windows 11 laptop to talk to our 20+ year old Brother black and white laser printer via USB - that’s impressive longevity

That brings back memories from my children’s primary school days! Used to have thousands of the things…

And registers are your hands holding the items currently in use e.g. the pen you are writing with

Favourite topics are the programming (probably the most popular with the majority of my students), data representation and Boolean logic (that will be the mathematician in me)

About to start my third year teaching secondary computing in Kent after many years of Maths - enjoying the change! #TeamCompSci

All my end-of-topic tests use past exam questions or extracts from them (constructed using exam builder) and the associated mark schemes to get used to the style of questions and what detail is needed

That one is definitely going on my list! Now I’ve finished “Range” I’m reading this (same author as Computational Fairy Tales)

Excellent and fascinating holiday read (recommended by @advanced-ict.info a few weeks ago on another platform)

I always go with fairly minimalist and I think that is backed up in terms of cognitive load/distraction of having lots of visual clutter on the walls.

Trying this out as an alternative to X/Threads. Interested in computer science teaching particularly but also general teaching/pedagogy/cognitive science as I continue to develop in teaching a newish to me subject area!