Coding for Teachers: The Kickstart Guide for 2023
“I’m just not a computer person.” Sound familiar? How about “I’m not good with computers.” Using a computer for anything more than checking an email …
4 Benefits of Why Every Child Should Learn to Code in 2023
You’re here because you care. The kind of care a parent has for their child. Or the care a teacher has for their students. Caring …
Ultimate Explainer: What is Coding and How Does It Work?
Open tab. Close tab. Another fruitless answer. You hear about coding everywhere, but you’re still not sure what it is or even where to begin. …
Educational Gifts for Kids
Here’s a couple of cool tech gift ideas that double as educational gifts for kids, boys, girls and students. I’ll introduce you to the BBC …
Place Value Activities: Printable Number Expanders
Extending Place Value Research reports that many children lack an understanding of the relative sizes of numbers greater than 100. (Fuson 2003; Payne & Huinker …
Assessment Rubric for Scratch
The Gist Use for Scratch or another block-based programming language Rubrics should be based on what the student demonstrates Informed by Griffin’s Assessment for Teaching …
Assessment Rubric for Coding
The Gist Rubrics should be based on what the student demonstrates Informed by Griffin’s Assessment for Teaching on writing quality criteria Uses Dreyfus’s model of …
Support Surfing Scratcher on Patreon
Become a Patron What is Patreon? In a nutshell, it’s a membership platform. When you crack open that nutshell, you’ll find that members are offered …
Values in NAPLAN Numeracy
This post is a direct dump of the research that I undertook as part of my final semester in my teaching degree. The subject centred …
Authentic use of ICT in Mathematics
In this digital age, young people need to be highly skilled in the use of ICT since it has redefined the way in which people …