National Curriculum Goes Functional

Over the past decade, many countries around the world have introduced programming into their national curriculum. It sparked the search for effective teaching practices and practical education technologies.

Since 2017 we have conducted many lessons for students aged 10-12. In our scenarios we tried various programming languages like Scratch, Python, Ruby, Pyret and Elixir. In this talk we will review lessons learned (pun intended). We will consider whether the functional paradigm is well suited to the implementation of the national curriculum. We will also argue that Elixir with its ecosystem is great for the school classroom.

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2. NATIONAL CURRICULUM
   GOES FUNCTIONAL
   Michał Ślaski | koderki.pl
   

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3. ✋ CAN CODE ?
   ✋ RAISING A CHILD ?
   ✋ TRIED TEACHING ?
   

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4. 2014 England
   computing teaching is compulsory
   from the age of 5
   

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5. 2017 Poland
   computing teaching is compulsory
   from the age of 7
   

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6. Girls 50% | 50% Boys
   Mathematics in English schools
   in summer 2020
   

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7. Girls 20% | 80% Boys
   Computing in English schools
   in summer 2020
   

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9. Effective pedagogy
   needs to consider age
   and how human brain develops
   

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10. Computational Thinking
    Algorithmic thinking, Abstraction,
    Decomposition, Evaluation, Logic,
    Generalising
    

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11. CS Unplugged
    University of Canterbury, New Zealand
    Age 6-9 years
    

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12. Binary Numbers
    

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14. Sorting Networks
    

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16. teaching abstractions by making
    

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18. fractal tree
    recursion, iteration
    

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23. ink
    editing, compiling, error messages,
    conditional statement, github
    

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25. Bootstrap
    Brown University, USA
    Age 10-18 years
    

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26. Functional Programming
    teaching Algebra, Data Science, Physics
    

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27. Mathematics
    numbers, algebra, sets, functions,
    geometry, probability, logic
    

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28. Map of Maths
    where to find maths in programming
    

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33. FP concepts
    how they map to maths concepts
    

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35. Elixir + Livebook
    math concepts explained and illustrated
    

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37. Outdoor game
    Riddles described in Livebooks
    

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40. Deploying Livebook Apps
    Dockerfile + Google Cloud Run
    

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41. NATIONAL CURRICULUM
    GOES FUNCTIONAL
    Michał Ślaski | koderki.pl
    

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