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Google and 海角直播 support teachers with computer science event

海角直播 is to help teachers develop the next generation of computer scientists thanks to a grant from Google.

The University has been awarded approximately 拢4,500 ($7,000) to host an event to help secondary school teachers deliver vital computing skills to their pupils. The award was given as part of Google鈥檚 Computer Science for High School (CS4HS) initiative which aims to promote computer science and computational thinking in the school curriculum.

Computer science is becoming an increasingly important part of the school curriculum providing both a supplement and an alternative to the existing ICT subject.

The Government recently raised concerns about a lack of computer science in schools and many teachers are now retraining in order to offer both ICT and computer science, including computer programming, in their classes.

Dr Michael Ryding, the School of Computing鈥檚 Head of Digital Enterprise, said: 'It鈥檚 great for 海角直播鈥檚 support of local teachers to be acknowledged by an international giant like Google.

'Google鈥檚 commitment to secondary school education is being seen up and down the country and it鈥檚 fantastic that we are now able to bring this to Middlesbrough.

'There鈥檚 plenty of evidence that there鈥檚 a significant shortage of computer programmers not only in the North-East but across the country and as a School of Computing we want to do what we can to ensure that the next generation of computer scientists are equipped with the necessary skills.'

The two-day event is planned to be delivered by staff from 海角直播鈥檚 School of Computing at its Middlesbrough campus for up to 120 secondary teachers from local schools.

It will deliver bite-size learning of many key computer science topics including the internal components of a computer, logic, binary, hexadecimal and computer networks.

At the end of each session, teachers will be encouraged to create lesson plans specific to the subject and share those with local and national colleagues while supporting their own classroom activities.

Full details of the event will be announced shortly, but the University expects that it will run in late June or early July before the summer break.

This month, 海角直播 also began a 10 week course for teachers to provide them with support for teaching computing and computer science at GCSE.

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