1. Alice in UK An Alice Based Implementation of UK National Computing Curriculum.
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Razak, Saquib, Gedawy, Huda, Tabet, Nour, Dann, Wanda, and Slater, Don
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BRITISH education system , *ELEMENTARY school curriculum , *ALICE (Computer program language) , *ACADEMIC achievement , *SCHOOL boards - Abstract
Education boards and ministries across the world are realizing the importance of computing education in K-12 as evidenced by changes to grade school curriculum in several countries. Department of Education in UK, recently introduced a new computing programme of study for the National Curriculum in England. In this paper, we present an Alice-based implementation of this curriculum. We present how Alice programming environment can be used to teach the subject content enumerated by the new curriculum. We also present a course plan for year 7 and 8 students with topic lists and schedule. We are currently using this computing course plan in a local schools and also present some initial results of student performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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