Literacy from Scratch
Lawrence Williams, Miroslava Černochová · 2013
from is a response to the United Kingdom (UK) government's ini- tiative to develop computer programming skills in both the Primary phase of educa- tion (pupils aged 5-11) and the Secondary phase (aged 11-18). The project has several related aspects: it involves the reworking of Primary and Secondary Initial Teacher Training (ITT) programmes at Brunel University, through which Postgradu- ate students are taught how to use the MIT Scratch programming language, to cre- ate sustained and animated narrative work. This work has also been developed by a whole year group (187 Year 8 pupils aged 12-13) at a local London secondary school. Support materials for creating these animated narratives are being devel- oped at both institutions (the school and Brunel University), and are sent by email to a school in Prague, Czech Republic (CZ) where, with the assistance of both the teaching staff and student teachers at the Faculty of Education in the Charles Uni- versity in Prague, a local Prague Basic School is undertaking the same project with several groups totalling 45 Year 3-7 pupils (aged 8-13). Literacy from is also, therefore, a response to the existing situation regarding the provision of ICT education in the Czech curriculum for Primary Education.