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What do you need to know to teach computing in primary schools? How do you teach it?


This book offers practical guidance on how to teach the computing curriculum in primary schools, coupled with the subject knowledge needed to teach it.



This Seventh Edition is a guide to teaching the computing content of the new Primary National Curriculum. It includes many more case studies and practical examples to help you see what good practice in teaching computing looks like. It also explores the use of ICT in the primary classroom for teaching all curriculum subjects and for supporting learning in every day teaching. New chapters have been added on physical computing and coding and the importance of web literacy, bringing the text up-to-date.



Computing is both a subject and a powerful teaching and learning tool throughout the school curriculum and beyond into many areas of children's learning lives. This book highlights the importance of supporting children to become discerning and creative users of digital technologies as opposed to passive consumers.

Primary Computing and Digital Technologies: Knowledge, Understanding and Practice

Organising digital technologies in your classroom

Planning for digital technologies across the curriculum

Planning to use digital technologies in the Early Years Foundation Stage

Digital display technologies

Mobile technologies

Planning for primary computing as a subject

Assessment in primary computing

Computational thinking and programming

Physical computing

Web literacy (including coding for the web)

Digital media/digital literacies

Writing with digital technologies

Social media - tools for communicating, collaborating and publishing

Graphing programs

Databases and spreadsheets

Professional use of digital technologies

Safety; online and off

Ethical and legal issues