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The National Curriculum enjoins schools to teach not computer science but ICT – a strange hybrid of desktop publishing lessons and Microsoft tutorials. While PowerPoint and Excel are useful vocational skills, they are never going to equip anybody for a career in ....
“Computer science is to ICT what writing is to reading.”
Ian Livingstone, Games Publisher
Introducing Kodu
The story so far…
Kodu Game Lab – BETT 2010
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Premiere Stories Project
The idea
The Kodudes! – reluctant readers / writers…??? … disengaged ???
The cohort
Reluctant readers – not interested in story narrative???
Session breakdown – narrative study
Reluctant writers??
Session breakdown – purposeful writing
Kodu skills progression – land tools and basic functions
Session breakdown – creating interactive key scenes
The Premiere - entrance
Session breakdown – the story walkthrough experience …
Kodu skills progression – paths, if > then procedures …
Session breakdown – the story walkthrough (coding in the bg)
Game design – supporting the narrative
Session breakdown – the mini-game – narrative climax
Kodu skills progression – Creatables and variables
Session breakdown – the mini-game – narrative climax
Editing and revising - a more traditional end product!
Session breakdown – the XML ‘hack’
Engaged motivated learners
Summary
USB
Adapting the concept, making it more ‘mainstream’
The Wreck of the Zanzibar
Interrogating the text – stimulating writing
The Wreck of the Zanzibar
Modelling the Scilly Isles, turtle rescue scene, gig boat race (mini-game)
The Wreck of the Zanzibar
On-going self evaluation of coding capabilities… working towards Kodu certification!
The Wreck of the Zanzibar
Collaborative Challenge
Let’s make a PONG!
Primary Computer Science ClubInnovating the Primary
Curriculum
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