I run Rewired State and Young Rewired State and campaign to bring coding into mainstream education. Am co-founder of the Coding for Kids community. I am available for short pieces of consultancy during certain points in the year.
Please help support Young Rewired State 2012 through People Fund It
I am on the following things:
The London Mayor’s Digital Advisory Board
Design Council Advisory Board for the Working Well design challenge
BIMA executive
Mozilla learning advisory group
Me in recent media bilges:
All about me in The Next Women online magazine
Radio 4 Raspberry Pi and kids and coding
Tech Weekly podcast: Tech city Skills and Education
Dubious pleasure of being voted a runner-up most influential voice in tech on Twitter (runner up to Dr Sue Black though is a bit amazing!)
Me showing the world how to code
Rory Cellan-Jones of the BBC is lovely about me in his article about computer science
Don’t just scrap ICT
Writing in The Kernel – sudden improvement in prose entirely down to the magical editorial pen of the fabulous Milo Yiannopoulos: A young person’s code
Writing in The Observer about girls and coding
Not a very good time in the life of the organisation, but we survive
Other useful stuff to know about me:
Coffee/Tea: white no sugar (prefer tea – prefer peppermint)
Wine: Red (Rose in Summer)
Snacks: Twiglets
Passion: Open Data: the un-mined seam of gold in the UK, young rewired state
CV: on linkedin
twitter: @hubmum
Security clearance: yes to SC level (plus immigration/security checked to Home Office standard)
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This is the result of one of those late-night online odysseys and how interesting it has become! I came across your work on a Google search for social media and democracy which I’m teaching to an A level class. I’m about to retire this summer, and the “we media” is a subject that has really caught my attention and makes me wish that I had control of the passage of time. Oh, how I’d love to be able to run with it for a while longer! It seems to me to be such an exciting development – one that is taking place almost unacknowledged, submerged as it is by mountains of dross as we gleefully post videos of ourselves “givin’ it some” as my son says. I’ve made a bit of a mess of replying to you elsewhere, but I want to say I’d be delighted to be involved in any future fora that address this issue and its fascinating potential. Thanks.
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I admire your passion and interest but I think (and its only my view) that coding/programming is a diversion. Why concentrate on that when the field of ICT is so much more than simply that? Sure you can engage and enthuse some through programming (it always fascinated me – I loved solving logic problems) but I suspect in any one class the number of people who have the aptitude or interest will be relatively small.
That you do need people with programming skills is a given and some (like me) may go on to wider and more senior roles within the industry but give them a broader education and experience and I think you could enthuse far more and potentially open their eyes to a multitude of differing roles within the industry.
Emma, saw this and thought of you: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/28/raspberry_pi/
Rapberry pi, sounds interesting, accessible and cheap – may be what you need to aim for?
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