Creativity and Cross Curricular Computing

This short course demonstrates that computing is one of the most fundamentally cross curricular subject areas in education. It's about using technology, logic, creativity and computational thinking to solve problems that cross all disciplines. It requires the systematic breakdown (decomposition) of both the problem and the solution. This short course will explore how to teach the skills and knowledge children need to become creative, digitally literate, computational thinkers to stimulate and maintain their digital curiosity across the wider curriculum. This short course demonstrates that computing is one of the most fundamentally cross curricular subject areas in education. ​ It's about using technology, logic, creativity and computational thinking to solve problems that cross all disciplines. ​ It requires the systematic breakdown (decomposition) of both the problem and the solution. ​ This short course will explore how to teach the skills and knowledge children need to become creative, digitally literate, computational thinkers to stimulate and maintain their digital curiosity across the wider curriculum.

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John Jefferies works extensively in support of schools for computing and D&T. He works with the National Centre for Computing Education as a Subject Matter Expert and has worked nationally and internationally through Naace and Becta. He is an accredited Lead Facilitator for STEM Learning. John is a STEM Learning Enthuse Partnership Coach providing support for D&T. He holds a certificate of accreditation from EPICT as a Facilitator for Online Safety and regularly provides Online Safety guidance and training for school leaders and teachers, governors and trustees, parents and children throughout primary.

John is an expert in cross-curricular computing and digital skills, and in the application of Ed Tech. He has many years’ experience supporting trainee teachers, and in helping groups of schools to collaborate.