Chris Carter

For teachers moving to Chromebooks as their main teaching device, this handy guide from HFL Education will show them what they need to know to get started.

With new AI tools and capabilities emerging rapidly, it can be hard to know where to start and how these tools can actually be useful in your day-to-day teaching. HFL Education's Chris Carter introduces a short, freely accessible elearning course to help you.

In this article Chris Carter looks at some iPad apps that can be used to support children, particularly those with additional needs and SEND.

It’s that time of year again, and whilst many children’s priorities may not be those of computational thinking skills and creative ICT, there are plenty of fun, seasonal computing activities we can run in class.

The National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE) is a DfE funded organisation that aims to support the teaching of computing in primary and secondary schools across England. Through a range of online and face-to-face CPD and support from local area computing hub schools, the NCCE is working to increase teacher confidence in computing and drive up participation and attainment in GCSE and A Level computer science.

Whilst not essential in primary schools, exploring the basics of a text-based programming language can help solidify children's understanding of programming principles, as well as gain some experience of 'real' coding. In this blog post we look at three easy ways to access text-based programming for beginners.

As I mentioned in a recent blog post about apps for programming, we are rather spoilt for choice in the number of learn-to-code tools that are available today.

It seems that a new app for programming or teaching children to code appears every week, and we are rather spoilt for choice these days.

The BBC Micro:Bit is the small (very small – smaller than a credit card) computer being distributed to every year 7 child in the country as part of a BBC initiative to help get children coding.