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Empower your students with essential digital skills for a tech-driven world!

The Digital Skills initiative from CAS emphasizes preparing students for digital demands through essential skills, from basic online safety to complex coding and teamwork in virtual environments.

We provide resources, like the Digital Skills Checklist for Teachers, for you to assess and develop your student's digital skill levels. We also highlight a case study, where you can find out how Denbigh High School integrated Digital Character education, enabling students to learn resilience and responsible digital behaviour.

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Exploring Carbon Emissions in Schools with the New Barefoot 'Carbon Quest' Resource

The team at Barefoot introduces the new Carbon Quest resource, aimed at primary schools. This resource engages students in scientific inquiry and programming, focusing on investigating carbon emissions related to school technology use. It includes a 90-minute or two-part lesson plan integrating science and computing, utilizing Scratch for data analysis and community-sharing animations. The session also celebrated Barefoot’s 10th anniversary, with a call for schools to participate in joke-themed activities to mark the milestone.

Find out how easy uploading to CAS can be!

In this blog, Thomas Lund discusses his experience uploading resources to CAS. Emphasizing the importance of sharing resources and how platforms like CAS foster collaboration among educators, Thomas encourages other teachers to contribute their own work, enhancing the collective resource pool for computing education for the future.

Upcoming Thematic Community events

CAS Trainee & ECT - Adaptive teaching in Computing

Join Niall Martin a Subject Development Lead to explore adaptive teaching and how it can be used within the computing curriculum. This session aims to support you with developing computing specific strategies and how they can support developing an iunclusive classroom environment.

Event starts 5th November @ 4pm

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CAS AI - Teaching programming with LLMs

This will be an interactive online session exploring the use of LLMs for teaching text-based programming. Specifically, we explore the use of LLMs to explain programming error messages.

The pedagogical implications of using LLMs to teach programming will be discussed, in view of feedback literacy general education theory.

Event starts 7th November @ 4pm

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CAS Higher Education Community meeting

The Higher Education Community meeting brings members together to discuss ideas, share insights, and explore possible actions to support and advance our collective goals. As this is our second meeting, we’re continuing to foster collaboration and provide a space for participants to contribute to ongoing initiatives..

Event starts 11th November @ 4pm

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Tools to assist in the classroom

Exciting News!

CAS has just launched a new collections of videos to help you master Microsoft Teams, Google Classroom and SeeSaw in the classroom. From collaboration tips to assignment organisation, these videos have got you covered.