Moving to mainstream
Sue Sentance · 2019
In 2018, the Department for Education in England awarded a contract for over £80 million for a 4-year programme of development of teacher training and student resources in computing. Together with a mandatory curriculum for computing for all children aged 5-16 since 2014, this represents one of the most substantial moves towards educating all children in the discipline of computing in the world. This initiative focuses on supporting and developing teachers in order to establish computing as a core and foundation subject. Such a large-scale and lengthy project has the potential to deepen our understanding of what works in computing education, and there will be much to explore and report on. In this keynote presentation, I will look at research opportunities, and how this project can feed into the global computing education research agenda and contribute to our understanding of what computing for all children means in practice.