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Background: 3 Camps Almost 200 students £50 per head Limitation: No outreach students Solution

Training the Trainer Initiatives to Promote Computing amongst Widening Access Participants: The Law of Multiplication in Action Dr Raymond Bond School of Computing and Mathematics. Background: 3 Camps Almost 200 students £50 per head Limitation: No outreach students Solution

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Background: 3 Camps Almost 200 students £50 per head Limitation: No outreach students Solution

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  1. Training the Trainer Initiatives to Promote Computing amongst Widening Access Participants: The Law of Multiplication in Action Dr Raymond Bond School of Computing and Mathematics

  2. Background: • 3 Camps • Almost 200 students • £50 per head Limitation: No outreach students Solution Bursaries for targeted schools

  3. Results

  4. Results • They all passed! Attendance was high. • Successful award ceremony • Outreach participants won prizes for best student • But With Limitations: • Only 5 Days • Not Sustainable • Not Scalable

  5. Work with a focused community group?

  6. Results • They all passed! Attendance was high. • Successful Award Ceremony • Highest Achiever attended Monkstown Community High School • But Still With Limitations: • Not Sustainable • Not Scalable

  7. Jonathan Gracey Paul McCarroll Kenneth McLaughlin Boys’ Brigade, Northern Ireland Dr Raymond Bond, Prof. Paul Hanna Kyle BoydFaculty of Computing and Engineering

  8. Train the Trainer

  9. The actual course • Introduction to Web Development • Accredited at level 3 by the University of Ulster • 5 credits in total • 1 assignment submission that you complete throughout the course

  10. Resources available to the BB • 20 Dell Notebooks • 4 3G WiFi Hotspots • Web development books • Course material, slides and tutorials (dropbox) • Demonstrators to assess coursework • Awards and Prizes

  11. Technology Enhanced Learning for Computing Science Education: A Training the Trainer Approach DrRaymond Bond, Roy Sterritt, Dr George Moore, DrGiuseppe Trombino, Simon Fraser, Brian Cleland

  12. The actual course • Introduction to Technology Enhanced Learning • Accredited at level 3 by the University of Ulster • 5 credits in total • 1 assignment submission that you complete throughout the course

  13. Anticipated Results • Pupils will see their efforts in a more productive way • Pupils will find working with these devices more appealing when compared to working with black screens • Pupils will be more engaged and more likely to learn computer programming in a shorter amount of time

  14. For introducing programming as part of your IT curriculum how beneficial do you feel the utilization of the following technologies would be?

  15. Learning to Code With Flying Robots – Training the Trainers Students can send computer programs in javascriptfrom their computer or mobile plhoneto the quadcopter over a WIFI network

  16. Further Questions? • Contact details • rb.bond@ulster.ac.uk • 028 90368156 • Skype: raymond.bond1

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