Secondary ICT

How to add context to your GCSE 9-1 Computer Science lessons

One thing you can say about Computer Science as a teaching subject is that it certainly isn’t static! The nature of computing, new technology, processing speeds and programming language developments means that to stay relevant the courses that support it need to be ‘patched’ on a regular basis. I’ve… Read More

Secondary ICT: Using code to create events

The intention of this session is to move the students on to using code to create events, in this case programming buttons to make a calculator, although once the basic principles are mastered, there are other opportunities which the students could investigate. Arrangements needed prior to the lesson 1. Students… Read More

ICT: Basic Programming with Visual Basic, Part 2

Click here to read Part 1 of the lesson plan! We left the first lesson at the stage of near completion of the GUI. The focus of this second session is to add some functionality, making the picture appear/disappear, but for the more able student other functions of the… Read More

ICT: Basic Programming with Visual Basic, Part 2

Click here to read Part 1 of the lesson plan! We left the first lesson at the stage of near completion of the GUI. The focus of this second session is to add some functionality, making the picture appear/disappear, but for the more able student other functions of the… Read More