Clare Fenwick is Senior Lecturer in Education: Computing at Oxford Brookes University. She did, however, start her career in Medical Science, later moving into teaching in post 16 education where she worked with vulnerable adult learners and their children. This is where she developed the CSI concept as a vehicle to teach science and ICT. Clare’s research interest is in the role of social media and learning; she uses a creative approach to delivering the primary computing curriculum focussing on the concepts and thinking process underpinning computing.
It has been quite a time since I started to use CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) as a hook to engage students into a range of key (and often for them, boring) subjects. For me it was Science and ICT (Information Communication Technology), but it can be used to develop literacy and numeracy skills, as well as those soft skills such as collaboration and problem solving that can be difficult to plan into busy timetables.
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