Primary Tech Review

iPads are ideal for use in primary settings, due to their portability, speed of use and range of apps . In this series of posts, we will explore the most useful iPad apps, the reasons for them being so useful in primary settings and possible applications across the curriculum. Distilling a list of the useful apps down to the top 5, 10 or even 20 is quite a challenge! For this reason, this will be the first in a series of 'Top of the Apps' posts , all exploring the most useful

Metacognition is often defined as 'thinking about our thinking'. Children can to be taught to apply this metacognitive thinking to the activities they do, both in education and in their everyday lives. Metacognition is referred to through the computational thinking requirements in computing, but is an important part of subjects across the primary curriculum. The importance of metacognition The Educational Endowment Foundation (EEF) states, 'pupils who are metacognitive demon

In 2014, the updated English National Curriculum set out revised standards for teaching in England. For primary computing, this included the powerful opening statement, 'a high-quality computing education education equips pupils to use computational thinking and creativity to understand and change the world.' I have no doubt that computing teaching has offered life-changing skills, opportunities and inspiration to children in the years since. From primary computing, some chil