http://csunplugged.org/sorting-networks

communication

"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes" - Dijkstra

Ideas, not technology

It's about tomorrow's jobs, not today's

Understanding the world, not just about jobs

Ideas, not technology Every child, not just geeks Educational not instrumental Discipline, not skill

2008 Computing at school 2010 CAS curriculum 2011 Shut down or restart report by Royal Society 2012 BCS invited to create a working group to draft the new Computing curriculu 2014 New curriculum launches

"You can say what you like, but it has to fit on two sides of A4"

Other subjects have centuries of experience; we have 5 years. Current practice is "gut feel". This is stupid. We should study what works and then do that.

Every teacher must come to an opinion about their students' understanding. They may do this informally, through project or programming work, or through asking them questions.

Where do they get these questions from? Often they just make them up.

Good questions are hard to write if you are an expert.

Project quantum

A corpus of high quality computing questions would be fantastically useful - to every teacher, year, and country.