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Computing: Resources, ideas, advice

The move from ICT to computing continues to challenge schools, especially those relying on non-specialist teachers. Fiona Aubrey-Smith looks at some useful resources and offers three steps to help move your computing curriculum forwards

Computing is one of the subject areas that has posed the greatest challenge over the last few years. The majority of both headteachers and teachers are not computing specialists, and the shift from ICT to computing has been a sizeable one.

As one headteacher said: “It’s effectively a brand new subject that I didn’t know anything about, so it’s felt quite overwhelming.”

There is a direct relationship between technology-confident headteachers and technology-confident schools, so with all this in mind, here are three considerations to move your school forwards in computing.

When the national curriculum changed in 2014, computing replaced ICT, a subject which had often become used as part of the wider curriculum – word processing in literacy, spreadsheets in maths and robots in geography.

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