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What is Physical Computing? With Pete Dring

Season 2 · Episode 1

Monday, November 18, 2024 • Duration 47:34

S2 E01: Pete and I discuss Microbits, Pis and the hassles of getting permission to drop something from a drone. Making computing interesting - don't say "fun"! And we go off-topic about AI, report-writing and much more. Series 2 begins with a bang, my dog gets another new name, and there will be jokes. Terrible, terrible jokes. You have been warned.

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What’s the Future of Education? Part 2

Season 1 · Episode 10

Sunday, May 26, 2024 • Duration 39:47

The concluding part of my chat with David Morgan aka "The Lesson Hacker". We talk AI-drawn Labradors with two tails, AI failing to get Star Trek uniforms right, and the end of the costume rental industry! We also talk about important stuff like adaptive teaching and personalised learning.

Transcript at httcs.online/blog

David's website: mindjoy.com

Buy me a coffee: ko-fi.com/mraharrisoncs

Use the discount code at johncattbookshop.com

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HTTCS Episode 001 What's All This About Then?

Season 1 · Episode 1

Monday, February 12, 2024 • Duration 24:10

Hello and welcome to "How to Teach Computer Science", the podcast. I've had a lot of people say to me, Alan, your book has been recommended to me and it looks fantastic, but I just don't have time to read it. So if that was you, here it is. Here's the pod.. And welcome to the opening episode. There are jokes, a competition and lots of pedagogy.

Transcript is available on your podcasting app and on my blog here

All episodes can be found at pod.httcs.online

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What’s the future of education?

Episode 9

Friday, May 3, 2024 • Duration 46:55

David Morgan of Craig'n'Dave and Mindjoy joins me to talk about the future. Apparently it's here already, who knew? Personalised teaching bots, the history of cheating and how to become a "10x teacher". We talk ChatGPT, CS50.ai and making our own PRIMM bot. We bond over Microsoft Encarta and a shared dislike of differentiated worksheets (*shudder*). This episode features the phrase "I spent the weekend making a semantic waves bot", which you don't hear every day. Part 1 of 2, because we could not stop chuntering on. Part 2 next week.

Read the transcript on my blog httcs.online/blog, or buy my books, hire me for a school INSET or bespoke training and more, at httcs.online.

Register for the free live event we discuss in the pod at mindjoy.com and scroll down to Upcoming Events or click here

And buy me a coffee at ko-fi.com/mraharrisoncs - Thanks!

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How Do We Teach Algorithms?

Season 1 · Episode 8

Saturday, April 20, 2024 • Duration 48:07

One of the best known creators of computing education content, one half of Craig'n'Dave, Dave Hillyard, joins me to talk about Hungarian Dancers, Snakes and Ladders and the day we did a "collab". It's abstractions all the way down in this epic that you must listen to if you teach algorithms.

Transcript on my blog at httcs.online/blog

Buy me a coffee at ko-fi.com/mraharrisoncs

Buy my book and more with your discount code (listen to the pod to find out) at johncattbookshop.com

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How Hard Can it Be?

Episode 7

Thursday, April 11, 2024 • Duration 49:38

Rachel Arthur from Teach First joins me to talk all things Initial Teacher Training. We discuss the joys of teaching computing, routes into teaching, what to expect from your placements and why we need more recruits for the robot apocalypse! And find out if Rachel and I are even human or perhaps just deepfakes. Confused? You will be in Episode 7!

Transcript at httcs.online/blog

Buy me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/mraharrisoncs

Buy my books at httcs.online

Thanks!

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How do we prepare for exams?

Season 1 · Episode 6

Thursday, March 28, 2024 • Duration 50:24

Miss Tough joins me to discuss exam preparation: revision techniques, retrieval practice, making mind maps (or not!) answering exam questions. Playing Taboo! and corny computing jokes. I tell you what happened in the 80s when I swung on my chair and we discuss teacher cliches like "it's your own time you're wasting!"

Transcript on my blog at httcs.online/blog

Listen for a discount code for 20% off at johncattbookshop.com

Buy me a coffee at ko-fi.com/mraharrisoncs

Thanks!

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How Do We Teach Programming?

Season 1 · Episode 5

Saturday, March 16, 2024 • Duration 41:37

I meet the teenagers behind "Mission Encodable", a Python tutorial website, hear their stories of learning to code and why they made the product. I reminisce about my classroom days when I wrote "10 PRINT "MY TEACHER IS AN IDIOT" / 20 GOTO 10" and I share a promo code for my books and more at johncattbookshop.com .

Mission Encodable is here missionencodeable.com

The full Transcript is here and my podcast page is at pod.httcs.online

Buy me a coffee at ko-fi.com/mraharrisoncs thanks!

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How DO we teach Computer Science?

Season 1 · Episode 4

Thursday, March 7, 2024 • Duration 43:12

In this episode I explore pedagogy, the art of teaching, with the help of highly experienced computer science teacher Andy Colley. We talk explicit instruction, cold calling, checking for understanding, PRIMM and much more, and agree that lots of computing-related jokes are not very funny. I wrestle with a printer and Andy goes off on a tangent more than once. A bumper 43-minute episode you cannot miss!

Transcript here: httcs.online/pod004

Buy my books here: httcs.online/books

Buy me a coffee here: ko-fi.com/mraharrisoncs thanks! Enjoy :)

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What have Braille and Burger Emojis got in common?

Season 1 · Episode 3

Thursday, February 29, 2024 • Duration 31:15

What have Braille and Burger Emojis got in common? I take a deep dive into the subject of Data Representation with the help of my special guest Andrew Virnuls of advanced-ict.info, we demystify binary, bit depth and sample rate, talk about cross-stitching, and I reveal the winners of recent competitions!

Transcript at httcs.online/blog. If you enjoyed this episode, buy me a coffee at ko-fi.com/mraharrisoncs or buy my books at httcs.online/books. Thanks!

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