06 | NEWS | PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
BT to go Barefoot Computing with BCS
BT is to partner with BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, in running the Barefoot Computing project, a national scheme to support primary school teachers as they start to teach the new computing curriculum. Starting this summer, the project
will provide cross-curricular computer science resources aimed at primary schoolteachers who have no previous computer science knowledge. The Barefoot Computing project, which was referenced by Education Secretary Michael Gove in his recent speech at BETT, is being run by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, together with CAS, the Computing At School group.
"BY TEACHING CODING AND COMPUTING TO CHILDREN FROM AGE FIVE WE WILL BE PRODUCING THE TECH ENTREPRENEURS OF THE FUTURE" EDUCATION MINISTER ELIZABETH TRUSS
The new Barefoot Computing
resources will help teachers understand ideas and concepts such as algorithms, abstraction and data structures, how they occur naturally in many other disciplines that they also teach, and how they can teach them to children starting from the age of fi ve. Education Minister Elizabeth
Truss said: “I am delighted that BT will be helping BCS support primary schoolteachers through the Barefoot Computing project. “By teaching coding and computing
to children from age fi ve we are honouring the great legacy of fi gures like Alan Turing and Tommy Flowers
Elizabeth Truss image: Mat hew Smith, Policy Exchange
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