The Centre for Computing History offers a range of services for schools.

 

We can supply an expert and a range of interactive equipment for one day at your school. A visit to your school provides multiple learning opportunities and can be tailored to suit your requirements. One visit could potentially cover up to four year groups. They have many advantages over taking a group of children out of school, including :

Our visits are themed into the following subjects :

 

The Dawn of Home Computers
This course includes an informative 30 minute presentation and a challenging interactive session where students gain hands-on experience of a range of home computers from the late 70's and 80's, including the Sinclair Spectrum and BBC Micro. We explore how computers have infiltrated our everyday lives and how computers have become more and more portable. Finally, we  encourage students to speculate on what the future may hold ...

We bring a number of specially modified BBC Micro computers to your school and set them up ready for students to explore the basics of computer programming. Using the tried and tested BBC BASIC language, students will be taught to write and understand simple computer programs. Crucially, they will learn how to break down a problem into logical steps.

 

Explore the UK as it was in the mid-eighties using the iconic computer of the eighties! The BBC Domesday System presents thousands of pictures and write-ups of everyday life in the UK. It also has interactive video, newsreel footage and holds information about practically every town and village in the UK. We will bring an original Domesday System to your school along with our exclusive PC based version allowing all children to use the original system and make comparisons with our modern equivelent.

Learning Box

Why not add a new dimension to your lesson plan with our Computing History Learning Boxes? Packed with items that help children understand the changes in computing technology over the past 30 years.

 

Our learning boxes are delivered by courier in a convenient case that can be simply packed away and sent back at the end of the term.