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The National Curriculum enjoins schools to teach not computer science but ICT – a strange hybrid of desktop publishing lessons and Microsoft tutorials. While PowerPoint and Excel are useful vocational skills, they are never going to equip anybody for a career in....
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“Computer science is to ICT what writing is to reading.” Ian Livingstone, Games Publisher
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Introducing Kodu
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The story so far…
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Kodu Game Lab – BETT 2010 ????
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Premiere Stories Project The idea
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The Kodudes! – reluctant readers / writers…??? … disengaged ??? The cohort
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Reluctant readers – not interested in story narrative??? Session breakdown – narrative study
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Reluctant writers?? Session breakdown – purposeful writing
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Kodu skills progression – land tools and basic functions Session breakdown – creating interactive key scenes
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The Premiere - entrance Session breakdown – the story walkthrough experience …
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Kodu skills progression – paths, if > then procedures … Session breakdown – the story walkthrough (coding in the bg)
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Game design – supporting the narrative Session breakdown – the mini-game – narrative climax
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Kodu skills progression – Creatables and variables Session breakdown – the mini-game – narrative climax
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Editing and revising - a more traditional end product! Session breakdown – the XML ‘hack’
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Engaged motivated learners Summary USB
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Adapting the concept, making it more ‘mainstream’ The Wreck of the Zanzibar
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Interrogating the text – stimulating writing The Wreck of the Zanzibar
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Modelling the Scilly Isles, turtle rescue scene, gig boat race (mini-game) The Wreck of the Zanzibar
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On-going self evaluation of coding capabilities… working towards Kodu certification! The Wreck of the Zanzibar
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Collaborative Challenge
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Let’s make a PONG!
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Primary Computer Science Club Innovating the Primary Curriculum tmeeky@googlemail.com @tmeeky tmeeky@googlemail.com @tmeeky
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