My presentation from The Academies Show on unleashing school computing and how it is more about culture than competency.

1. Unleashing
SCHOOL
Computing

2. @LearnMakerJay
JAY ASHCROFT

3. HIGH DEMAND
Digital skills are in

4. WIDENS
yet each year the skills gap

5. 2 Problems for schools
What How
to teach students

6. PROBLEM 1

7. HOW DO
JOBS THATdo not yet exist?
we prepare students for

8. The world’s largest taxi firm, Uber, owns
no cars. The world’s biggest media
company, Facebook, creates no
content. And the world’s largest
accommodation provider, Airbnb, owns
no property.
The Digital Era

9. Vlogger Chief Listening
Office
App
Designer
New Jobs

10. Felix Kjellberg
‘PewDiePie’
Professional Vlogger
26 years old
$5m per year earnings

11. Tai Tran
Apple’s Twitter Manager
22 years old
Forbes 30 Under 30
list

12. Nick D’Alsoisio
App Developer
16 years old
Sold his app
for $30m to Yahoo

13. All 3 created and profited
from jobs and skills that
did not exist 10 years ago

14. PROBLEM 2

15. WHAT DO
we teach students
DIGITAL
to prepare them for the
future?

16. In computing
you must read
between the lines

17. The curriculum may say
Coding Networking Algorithms

18. But it actually means
Problem
Solving
Critical
Thinking
Independent
Learning

19. do we
THIS
teach students
HOW

20. SOLUTION

21. The focus
KNOWLEDGE
SHOULD NOT
be on developing
COMPETENCIES
but in developing

22. UNLOCK
challenge
based learning

23. Requirements
Device Imagination Context

24. PROCESS

25. Set students a BIG
open ended digital
task
1

26. Have
students
work in
teams
2

27. Step back and
let the magic
happen!
3

28. PROOF

29. Jay Ashcroft
jay@learnmaker.co.uk
INVICTA
PRIMARY
SCHOOL

30. Students had 5 days to
build a fully functional iPad
app
Project

31. 1. Research and generate ideas.
2. Prototype on paper.
3. Generate content.
4. Build using an online app builder.
5. Debug and refine.
6. Launch!
Stages

32. Teachers gave no explicit
instructions other than how to
operate hardware & software.
The outcome was entirely in the
hands of the students

33. DEVELOPED
and doing so

34. Problem
Solving
Critical
Thinking
Independent
Learning

35. Aged between 5-10
Student selection

37. • Different ages
• Different experiences
• Different ideas
Real world conditions:

38. Video

39. “It wasn’t just coding, it
was about having fun and
learning.”

40. This produced a
LEARNING
IMPACT ON
interesting

41. Inspiring Students
0
25
50
75
100
Before After
Student applications
to be digital leaders

42. behaviour problems from
students on the project0

43. Students became
More
confident
More
engaged
More
focused

44. and the
BESTpart…

45. We covered the
ENTIREprimary computing
in just
CURRICULUM
5 days

46. CHALLENGE

47. will you replicate this
in
YOUR SCHOOL?
HOW

48. www.learnmaker.co.uk
Jay Ashcroft
LEARNMAKER