Laura Kirsop – Noise https://noise.getoto.net The collective thoughts of the interwebz Tue, 27 May 2025 10:45:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Beyond phone bans: Empowering students to critically navigate and reimagine technology https://noise.getoto.net/2025/05/27/beyond-phone-bans-empowering-students-to-critically-navigate-and-reimagine-technology/ Tue, 27 May 2025 10:45:27 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=90250 Amidst heated discussion of smartphones and their impacts on young people’s lives, it’s become a frequent recommendation to ban phones in schools. Below I summarise the research evidence on smartphone bans (it’s mixed) and share tips for computing educators on how to constructively address the topic with their learners and empower them to think critically…

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]]> Experience CS: A safe, creative way to teach computing https://noise.getoto.net/2025/05/20/experience-cs-a-safe-creative-way-to-teach-computing/ Tue, 20 May 2025 13:05:30 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=90201 Experience CS is our new free curriculum that helps elementary and middle school educators (working with students aged 8 to 14) teach computer science with confidence through creative, cross-curricular lessons and projects. Designed for teachers, by teachers, Experience CS is built to be easy to use in classrooms, with everything you need integrated into one…

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]]> Introducing Code Club World: a new way for young people to learn to code at home https://noise.getoto.net/2021/11/09/introducing-code-club-world-a-new-way-for-young-people-to-learn-to-code-at-home/ Tue, 09 Nov 2021 10:32:59 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=77046 Today we are introducing you to Code Club World — a free online platform where young people aged 9 to 13 can learn to make stuff with code. In Code Club World, young people can: Start out by creating their personal robot avatar Make music, design a t-shirt, and teach their robot avatar to dance!…

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