Switched on Computing 1 Third Edition

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You may be trying to connect your Joy-Cons or Pro Controller to your PC rather than your entire Switch. While you’re better off using an Xbox controller or even a Playstation controller with PC games, if all you have is a Nintendo controller (or you’re emulating Nintendo titles), they are easy to hook up to your computer. Amanda is a Senior Inspector, working for HES - Havering Education Services. She has 20+ years' experience working across the primary and secondary sectors, including 12 years in school improvement. She is a School Improvement Professional (SIP) and LA Quality Assurance Inspector for primary schools in Havering, supporting and challenging on whole school improvement. Amanda has worked with Rising Stars on the development of Bett Award winning Switched on Computing, Switched on Online Safety and other titles. She has recently worked with the Department for Education to support the creation of the education technology content of the Teacher Workload Reduction Toolkit. Beyond work, Amanda is a governor of a primary school in Essex, sitting on the Curriculum Committee and chairing the Resources Committee. Dave Smith System Settings > Data Management > Manage Screenshots and Videos > Copy to a Computer via USB Connection The new Switched on Computing units follow the same tried and tested approach as Switched on ICT. They include: This 5-step guide provides you with some hints and tips to help you to fully embed Switched On Computing within your school successfully.

Plus a look at the contribution made by Ada Lovelace to our history with the bicentenary of her birth coming later in the term, a host of teaching ideas and some really informative contributions illustrating the pedagogy emerging from reflective practice. Help your students stay safe online with a whole school online safety provision including lessons and assemblies, teacher guidance, CPD videos and regular guidance on key online safety issues. One year on and it is clear that Computing teachers are rising to the challenge of the new curriculum and a vibrant grassroots community of practice is emerging. This issue reports on developments to support the wonderful work of CAS members. The first half of this issue is focused on encouraging developments in primary schools. It teems with stories of teachers and pupils trying things and reflecting on what works.Lessons are well resourced and planned for. Teachers would definitely benefit from using the videos and slides, especially if they are not confident with computing.’

Login or register Important notice for pupils, teachers and parents accessing online resources at Rising Stars These are exciting times for CAS. In January, Michael Gove announced that Computer Science would count towards the English Baccalaureate, placing the subject as "the fourth science" In February, the new draft Programme of Study re-titled the subject as "Computing", and explicitly establishes Computer Science as a deep subject every child should have the opportunity to learn from Key Stage 1 onwards, alongside the creative use and application of information technology. These are goals for which we scarcely dared hope four years ago. If you teach computing and do it right, you can help children develop their learning in literacy and numeracy," says Bill Mitchell, Director of Education at the Chartered Institute for IT. Year 2 definitely builds on Year 1 in lots of ways, and I think there will also be a fair amount of learning about new technologies for both teachers and pupils. Laptops / netbooks / PCs will be used more this year than iPads I think. Sign up to our monthly CAS newsletter to hear the latest news from across the community. Stay updated and access the latest resources, events and discussions.This fine collection puts creativity and collaboration to the fore. It draws on deep and extensive knowledge of computing, progression and continuity, and is well planned, innovative, cross-curricular, stretching but accessible, and vitally, it has been well-trialled in schools. As you can tell from the various workarounds, there isn’t a true way to connect Nintendo Switch consoles to a PC that lets the devices operate. At best, you can make your PC act as a glorified TV, but if your main goal is to capture game footage, then that’s exactly what you want to do! Software required: Microsoft Word, Powerpoint and Excel, Picasa or IrfanView to edit the photos, Google Earth In addition to this Adam speaks at local and national events and is an Apple Distinguished Educator, a CAS Master Teacher and an Ambassador for Book Creator, Seesaw, Nearpod and SamLabs.

Scratch Jr is due to be launched as an iPad app in "Summer 2014" according to http://www.scratchjr.org/and may be another option for this unit. As more teachers embrace Computing, we will all have ideas to share. No-one has a blueprint for what works best. CAS brings fellow professionals together in the Network of Excellence, to share ideas and develop that subjectAgain iPhoto is a paid-for app so we will need to sort out our VPP account as per Unit 1. One of my schools currently uses IrfanView to edit and manipulate photos, so we will need to compare this against Picasa and decide which one to use. This looks at first glance like a relatively straightforward unit which is nice and open-ended so should lend itself well to whatever topic the class is studying. Author of the Teacher Guide, Miles is principal lecturer in Computing Education at the University of Roehampton. He is a board member of Computing At School, the BCS Academy of Computing, the National Centre for Computing Education and the CSTA. He is a fellow of the BCS, RSA, HEA and Chartered College of Teaching, and a member of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Supports teachers of all levels of experience with software demos and detailed step-by-step planning Ensure children become positive digital citizens by teaching them safe and appropriate online behaviour. Too many people still see Computing as a niche subject for the technically minded. CAS takes a different view. Computational Thinking has generic educational value for developing ways of thinking and learning in all children. The benefits are applicable to many areas, not just our own discipline — one reason CAS lobbied for a curriculum entitlement across all key stages. This issue focuses on inclusion; on making Computing accessible to every child, not just a select few.

How teachers portray our emergent subject to pupils is crucial. Computing and IT has often been viewed as a boys' thing. Negative stereotyping, project contexts, the hidden curriculum of the classroom, past contributions from women going unrecognised and peer pressure amongst girls themselves have left a gender imbalance. A new beginning carries opportunities to portray the subject in a fresh light.  Inside this issue we've a special focus on 'minding the gap'. You'll find reports on initiatives, pointers to resources and insights into things that can work in the classroom. If you see a “Connected to the Computer” message, you can open the Switch drive in your operating system. When done, remember to select Disconnect. Use Smart Device Transfer for Photos and Videos Adam’s specialism is how we can use Unplugged Learning to aid children’s understanding. He believes that it has a place in all aspects of Computing and EdTech as it’s where children understand the why and how digital processes work. There is no doubt that many of the new visual programming resources provide hugely motivating environments for pupils. Reading the stories and seeing what is already happening makes you wonder just what is possible!Embed important online safety principles with interactive, online cross-curricular activities and 6 themed units of work in each print teacher’s guide. Incidentally, I am wondering how I did not know about the Snipping Tool available in Windows 7. Goodbye to Alt & PrtSc. I think this will be a brilliant tool to get children using so that they can capture elements of their work and put them together in a presentation! AB - ‘A high-quality computing education equips pupilsto use computational thinking and creativity tounderstand and change the world.’Computing programme of study, DfE, 2013Switched on Computing has been designed with theabove aims in mind. It covers all the requirements ofthe Computing programme of study in a way thatis intended to develop pupils’ understanding of theconcepts, practices and perspectives that underpinprogramming and other aspects of computer science,while providing ample opportunity for creative,collaborative project work in which pupils can acquirethe information technology skills they will need.Switched on Computing also helps pupils to understandthe implications of technology for individuals andsociety as they become digitally literate.The approach adopted here is one grounded inthe best primary practice. Ideas of learning throughexperiment, discussion and making are woventhrough the scheme. The topic-based approachprovides enough flexibility for you to link theseactivities with work in other subjects.