Dr. Ahmed Kharrufa is the Director of Reflective Thinking and a Research Associate of Newcastle University. His interests lie in exploring the ways technology can support collaborative learning and he has created a tool called Digital Mysteries as a result. It started off with Professor David Leat’s paper tool Mysteries, which was then digitally transformed. This involves problem-solving tasks to boost group work skills, higher level thinking and project based learning. He is an advocate of unique multi-mouse technology which allows multiple students to each have their own mouse and cursor on the screen.
My to-do list during the summer holidays included preparing a number of collaborative problem-solving tasks (mysteries) for the new computing at schools (CAS) curriculum, KS2 and KS3. With my programming background, I focused on the computing science bit rather than information technology or digital literacy.
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