Jane Waite – Noise https://noise.getoto.net The collective thoughts of the interwebz Thu, 08 Jan 2026 11:17:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 How can we teach about AI in the arts, humanities and sciences? Research seminar series 2026 https://noise.getoto.net/2026/01/08/how-can-we-teach-about-ai-in-the-arts-humanities-and-sciences-research-seminar-series-2026/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 11:17:29 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=92203 For the last five years, once a month, we have hosted an online seminar sharing computing education research. Seminars are organised as usually year-long series with changing themes. In 2025, for example, our theme was ‘Teaching about AI and data science’. In 2024, it was ‘Teaching programming (with or without AI)’. It is not surprising…

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]]> Secondary school maths showing that AI systems don’t think https://noise.getoto.net/2025/12/12/secondary-school-maths-showing-that-ai-systems-dont-think/ Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:25:58 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=92020 At a time when many young people are using AI for personal and learning purposes, schools are trying to figure out what to teach about AI and how (find out more in this summer 2025 data about young people’s usage of AI in the UK). One aspect of this is how technical we should get…

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]]> Teaching about AI – Teacher symposium https://noise.getoto.net/2025/02/25/teaching-about-ai-teacher-symposium/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:28:01 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=89514 AI has become a pervasive term that is heard with trepidation, excitement, and often a furrowed brow in school staffrooms. For educators, there is pressure to use AI applications for productivity — to save time, to help create lesson plans, to write reports, to answer emails, etc. There is also a lot of interest in…

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]]> How can we teach students about AI and data science? Join our 2025 seminar series to learn more about the topic https://noise.getoto.net/2024/12/12/how-can-we-teach-students-about-ai-and-data-science-join-our-2025-seminar-series-to-learn-more-about-the-topic/ Thu, 12 Dec 2024 09:54:06 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=89069 AI, machine learning (ML), and data science infuse our daily lives, from the recommendation functionality on music apps to technologies that influence our healthcare, transport, education, defence, and more. What jobs will be affected by AL, ML, and data science remains to be seen, but it is increasingly clear that students will need to learn…

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]]> Teaching about AI in schools: Take part in our Research and Educator Community Symposium https://noise.getoto.net/2024/10/31/teaching-about-ai-in-schools-take-part-in-our-research-and-educator-community-symposium/ Thu, 31 Oct 2024 10:51:41 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=88786 Worldwide, the use of generative AI systems and related technologies is transforming our lives. From marketing and social media to education and industry, these technologies are being used everywhere, even if it isn’t obvious. Yet, despite the growing availability and use of generative AI tools, governments are still working out how and when to regulate…

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]]> AI education resources: What do we teach young people? https://noise.getoto.net/2023/03/28/ai-education-resources-what-do-we-teach-young-people/ Tue, 28 Mar 2023 09:29:49 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=83513 People have many different reasons to think that children and teenagers need to learn about artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Whether it’s that AI impacts young people’s lives today, or that understanding these technologies may open up careers in their future — there is broad agreement that school-level education about AI is important. But how do…

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]]> Are you technocentric? Shifting from technology to people https://noise.getoto.net/2022/07/12/are-you-technocentric-shifting-from-technology-to-people/ Tue, 12 Jul 2022 11:58:43 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=80359 When we teach children and young people about computing, do we consider how the subject has developed over time, how it relates to our students’ lives, and importantly, what our values are? Professor Pratim Sengupta shared some of the research he and his colleagues have been working on related to these questions in our June…

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]]> 170 research papers about teaching programming, summarised https://noise.getoto.net/2022/03/17/170-research-papers-about-teaching-programming-summarised/ Thu, 17 Mar 2022 09:54:38 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=78790 Computer programming is now part of the school curriculum in England and many other countries. Although not necessarily the primary focus of the computing curriculum, programming can be the area teachers find most challenging to teach. There is much evidence emerging from research on how to teach programming, particularly from projects with undergraduate learners. That’s…

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]]> Creating better online multiple choice questions https://noise.getoto.net/2022/01/25/creating-better-online-multiple-choice-questions/ Tue, 25 Jan 2022 09:46:17 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=78017 In this blog post we explore good practices around creating online computing questions, specifically multiple choice questions (MCQs). Multiple choice questions are a popular way to help teachers and learners work out the next steps in learning, and to assess learning in examinations. As a case study, we look at some data related to learner…

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]]> The machine learning effect: Magic boxes and computational thinking 2.0 https://noise.getoto.net/2021/11/17/the-machine-learning-effect-magic-boxes-and-computational-thinking-2-0/ Wed, 17 Nov 2021 12:28:14 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=77173 How does teaching children and young people about machine learning (ML) differ from teaching them about other aspects of computing? Professor Matti Tedre and Dr Henriikka Vartiainen from the University of Eastern Finland shared some answers at our latest research seminar. Their presentation, titled ‘ML education for K-12: emerging trajectories’, had a profound impact on…

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