Raspberry Pi Foundation & Pedagogy

Raspberry Pi Foundation Initiatives

• Raspberry Pi Foundation offers free training, resources, and guidance for teaching computing with confidence.
• The foundation's project library has over 200 online project guides with step-by-step instructions for learners, accessible at projects.raspberrypi.org.
• The foundation also provides support for parents, offering tutorials and engaging resources for children, available at raspberrypi.org/learn.

Hello World: The Big Book of Computing Pedagogy

• Focuses on teaching computing in the classroom
• Includes articles on computing pedagogy, based on 12 principles developed originally for the UK's National Centre for Computing Education.
• Aims to bridge the gap between research and teaching practice, giving educators accessible research and classroom application stories.

Core Principles

• Lead with concepts
• Structure lesions
• Make concrete
• Unplug, unpack, repack
• Work together
• Read and explore code first
• Foster program comprehension
• Model everything
• Challenge misconceptions
• Create projects
• Gets hands-on
• Add variety

Importance of Computing

• Computing connects to many subjects
• Rich in concepts
• Need to focus on these concepts to build a solid understanding and vocabulary.

Assessment and Review

• Concept maps, glossaries key
• Regular practice to ensure concepts are embedded in students’ understanding.
• The process should inform the planning of learning experiences
• They are also an opportunity for facilitating communication and collaboration between educators.

Concept Maps

• Concepts are arranged in a hierarchy, with links that connect to show relationships.
• Labels specify the relationship between the concepts.
• A focus question provides context and direction.
• Educators should break down knowledge into propositions.
• The planning of lessons will help with the lesson sequence, aid communication and support teaching as well as assessment.
• The should be integrated as they inform the learning and teaching process.

Non-Programming Activities & Skills

• A research team found improved learning gains using non-programming activities to teach computing concepts.
• Students find defining the components of a variable collaboratively useful.
• Programming languages can be hard to grasp, thus using relatable activities may improve understanding

The Code's Not All Right

• Often there are many options for teaching code
• The best method is the best method for specific learners
• Avoid shortcuts to allow for necessary discovery

Learning Graphs and Program Progression

• Progression framework offers a sequence for student learning, indicating when concepts are introduced.
• The learning charts present it using a map of possible paths through learning waypoints to build understanding
• Allows for assessment by understanding each landmark and addressing gaps in understanding with students.
• Focuses towards students understanding that they need to understand before they are capable of more information on topics.

Lessons Structure

• Computing lessons benefit from structure and planning
• Popular frameworks are Use-Modify-Create and PRIMM (Predict–Run–Investigate–Modify–Make) in teaching.
• Differentiation at various lesson stages, reduces cognitive load, supports and challenges students at the right moments.

Cognitive Load Theory

• Cognitive load theory addresses the limits of our limited short-term memory and maximizing our long-term memory(essentially infinite).
• Effective learning aims to transfer information from working memory to sound schemas to our existing and known schemas.
• Balances intrinsic load (complexity of concepts) and extraneous load (presentation of materials)
• Intrinsic load needs smaller tasks, prerequisite awareness and managed understanding
• Reduce overload in visual text/graphics, combining sensory info.

PRIMM

• The stages are: Predict then Run then Investigate then Modify then Make
• Promotes code reading and discussions
• Labels what you are doing while teaching code

The Block Model

• PRIMM has an investigation phase that is supported code tracing, explaining and questioning.
• Can be carried out in pairs in small groups away from computer.
• Helps verbalizing small steps for code and terminology through language and practice.

UDL

• UDl uses different network processing to adapt to different learners.
• Encourages educators to use engagement, representation (materials and examples), and expression activities.

21st Century Skills

• Helps prepare students for a digital career while working.
• Use coding to teach those skills, and critical thinking.

Could Curriculum Design be as simple as ABC

• Adapt of designing curriculum to balance online activities with the six learning types (acquisition, collaboration, discussion, innovation, practice, and production)
• Each step has a low-tech and medium-tech version to make it easy for students to follow

Make Concrete:

• Make items more relatable, as that in turn will make it easier for students to learn.

Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

• Culturally relevant pedagogy emphasizes all learners' knowledge, heritage, and methods.
• Educators should value experience, provide opportunities to have personal meaning, and provide a curriculum related to all
• This can lead to learners wanting to get into computing.

Learning Through Making

• Learning can be fun if students can work hands on
• Also leads to better way of understanding more for computer world.

Semantic Waves

• Uses a journey for novice learners of complex terms and meaning
• This process should become easier for students to come up with ideas.

Go Unplugged

• Unplugged can be done without a computer, thus letting students be able to do their work without one.
• Students have been found to like this activity.

Semantic waves and crazy characters

• Important to create and help a learner.
• Can make all students better for having this way