Technocamps: Highlighting 20 Years of Transforming Digital Education in Wales

Tom Crick; Faron Moller

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Technocamps: Highlighting 20 Years of Transforming Digital Education in Wales

Tom Crick, Faron Moller

School of Education

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Computer science (CS) curriculum reform across the UK has been subject to substantial scrutiny, as it has in many other countries around the world. However, in Wales - one of the four nations in the UK - various political, geographical and socio-cultural issues have historically hindered major educational policy interventions or reforms for CS. In this poster, we highlight the activities and impact of Technocamps, a pan-Wales university-based schools outreach programme founded in 2003. We showcase its wider impact on CS education, practitioners, schools, and learners in Wales over the past 20 years; especially with the start of the new bilingual Curriculum for Wales (Cwricwlwm i Gymru) from September 2022, which includes major reform of CS alongside digital competence as a statutory cross-curricular skill for all learners aged 3-16.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ITiCSE 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	670
Number of pages	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9798400701399
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3587103.3594195
Publication status	Published - 29 Jun 2023
Event	28th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2023 - Turku, Finland Duration: 8 Jul 2023 → 12 Jul 2023

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Name	Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE
Volume	2
ISSN (Print)	1942-647X

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Conference	28th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2023
Country/Territory	Finland
City	Turku
Period	8/07/23 → 12/07/23

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computer science education
curriculum reform
schools
wales

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Crick, T., & Moller, F. (2023). Technocamps: Highlighting 20 Years of Transforming Digital Education in Wales. In ITiCSE 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (pp. 670). (Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE; Vol. 2). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3587103.3594195

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Crick, T & Moller, F 2023, Technocamps: Highlighting 20 Years of Transforming Digital Education in Wales. in ITiCSE 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE, vol. 2, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 670, 28th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2023, Turku, Finland, 8/07/23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3587103.3594195

Technocamps: Highlighting 20 Years of Transforming Digital Education in Wales. / Crick, Tom; Moller, Faron.
ITiCSE 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. Association for Computing Machinery, 2023. p. 670 (Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE; Vol. 2).

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