Using robots in the English class is a creative and stimulating experience for children. They get the chance to develop not just their computing skills but also have a purpose and motivating reason to write. If you would like a free copy of this instruction unit of work then do register your interest here. […]
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Roehampton Festival of Computing
Roehampton Festival of Computing is being held on June 17th 2016 and I was more than happy to take part when asked by Yasemin Allsop, even with a flight of four hours from Moscow involved! An outline of people speaking at the conference appears in this video clip I am looking forward to meeting quite […]
Supporting the EAL child in the Primary Science Classroom
Supporting the EAL child in the Primary Science classroom requires the use of real concrete objects. Using real objects will provide more vocabulary. To get this message across I started off with the teachers gathering together all the vocabulary they could think of for a lemon. When they had done this, I then showed them a coloured […]
Roamer – Working with EAL/ESL children
You will see on our project page further details about Roamer going to work with Russian children as well as links to resources on the Valiant Technologies Roamer page I first introduced the robot to my English as a Second Language group (ESL) as I wanted to see not just how they reacted to using […]