More to the new Computing curriculum than just coding

Miles Berry, principal lecturer in computing education at the University of Roehampton and board member of UK ICT subject association Naace, comments on the changes afoot in the move from ICT in the old national curriculum to computing in the new version, coming into effect in September. 

We've seen lots of headlines about how children will be “learning to code” from the age of five, and a number of great initiatives such as Code Club, Year of Code and Codecademy, which aim to give children and their teachers the opportunity to learn to write “computer code”.

This really is great, but you'd be forgiven for thinking that “coding” is all there is to the new programmes of study. But this is far from the case – “code” and “coding” aren't even mentioned. 

Read the full TES opinion article here.