Primary Tech Review

Apple's Keynote has potential for use far beyond students creating presentations. Using Keynote, students can also create animations, communicating their creativity and demonstrating their ideas about a topic! We explore some useful ways that Keynote can be used across the primary curriculum. Reasons for using Keynote for animation Keynote is a fantastic presentational tool. It allows children to organise their ideas on a topic and in a short time, create an attractive and en

Primary language learners have specific needs as they take their first steps towards communicating in another language and learning about another culture. Can technology really benefit primary foreign language learning? We consider some of the needs of primary aged children when learning a foreign language and evaluate some of the technology available to meet these needs. Flashcards Flashcards help to break learning down into manageable, bitesize chunks. They allow for frequ

Reading code can be neglected in Computing education, as teachers and students are eager to begin creative work! However, time spend reading code before programming is important. We explore how Minecraft (Education Edition) offers great opportunities for children to read code and observe its effects, prior to creating their own programs. The importance of reading code Dr Sue Sentance, Chief Learning Officer at the Raspberry Pi Foundation and a Fellow at Kings College London,