BCU heads presentation

Hello,my name is Martin.

I am:• Chair of Governors at Bewdley Primary

School• Software developer• EdTech founder• An advocate for computing education• Soon-to-be PGCE student• PhD & black belt

Why teachcomputing?

“The UK will need 745,000 additional workers with digital skills to meet rising demand from employers between 2013 and 2017, and almost 90% of new jobs require digital skills to some degree.”

Parliamentary Science & Technology Select Committee. June 2016

We must prepare children

for jobs that don’t exist yet

The UK is the largest net e-commerce exporter in the world

The UK has the highest percentage internet access globally

We invented the WWW

Where to start?• Digital leaders• Embed ICT• Discover coding with

the kids• Programming is a

kind of literacy

martingsaunders.com@MartinGSaunders

Thank you.