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Technocamps: Highlighting 20 Years of Transforming Digital Education in Wales

Tom Crick Orcid Logo, Faron Moller Orcid Logo

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 2

Swansea University Authors: Tom Crick Orcid Logo, Faron Moller Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1145/3587103.3594195

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Computer science (CS) curriculum reform across the UK has been subject to substantial scrutiny, as it has in many other countries around the world. However, in Wales - one of the four nations in the UK - various political, geographical and socio-cultural issues have historically hindered major educa...

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Published in: Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 2
Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 2023
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3587103.3594195
URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64133
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Abstract: Computer science (CS) curriculum reform across the UK has been subject to substantial scrutiny, as it has in many other countries around the world. However, in Wales - one of the four nations in the UK - various political, geographical and socio-cultural issues have historically hindered major educational policy interventions or reforms for CS. In this poster, we highlight the activities and impact of Technocamps, a pan-Wales university-based schools outreach programme founded in 2003. We showcase its wider impact on CS education, practitioners, schools, and learners in Wales over the past 20 years; especially with the start of the new bilingual Curriculum for Wales (Cwricwlwm i Gymru) from September 2022, which includes major reform of CS alongside digital competence as a statutory cross-curricular skill for all learners aged 3-16.
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