How do you make sure that the likes of Scratch and Physical Computing is worthwhile in laying foundations for textual programming? I often find learners remember ‘making a game’ or ‘making the robot move’ but don’t learn about sequencing, iteration, selection etc. #teamcompsci

We teach them about variables, input, output, selection etc using edublocks. My SOW is available on TES. #TeamCompSci

In my maths dual qualification journey I have been learning a lot about #ConcretePictorialAbstract - could this be something adapted to programming education? Concrete - programming something physical Pictorial - Scratch or similar Abstract - Python