1. 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....

5. “Computer science is to ICT what writing is to reading.” Ian Livingstone, Games Publisher

6. Introducing Kodu

7. The story so far…

8. Kodu Game Lab – BETT 2010 ????

9. Premiere Stories Project The idea

10. The Kodudes! – reluctant readers / writers…??? … disengaged ??? The cohort

11. Reluctant readers – not interested in story narrative??? Session breakdown – narrative study

12. Reluctant writers?? Session breakdown – purposeful writing

13. Kodu skills progression – land tools and basic functions Session breakdown – creating interactive key scenes

14. The Premiere - entrance Session breakdown – the story walkthrough experience …

15. Kodu skills progression – paths, if > then procedures … Session breakdown – the story walkthrough (coding in the bg)

16. Game design – supporting the narrative Session breakdown – the mini-game – narrative climax

17. Kodu skills progression – Creatables and variables Session breakdown – the mini-game – narrative climax

18. Editing and revising - a more traditional end product! Session breakdown – the XML ‘hack’

19. Engaged motivated learners Summary USB

20. Adapting the concept, making it more ‘mainstream’ The Wreck of the Zanzibar

21. Interrogating the text – stimulating writing The Wreck of the Zanzibar

22. Modelling the Scilly Isles, turtle rescue scene, gig boat race (mini-game) The Wreck of the Zanzibar

23. On-going self evaluation of coding capabilities… working towards Kodu certification! The Wreck of the Zanzibar

24. Collaborative Challenge

25. Let’s make a PONG!

26. Primary Computer Science Club Innovating the Primary Curriculum tmeeky@googlemail.com @tmeeky tmeeky@googlemail.com @tmeeky