Hacking the Curriculum

by Ian Livingstone, Shahneila Saeed

Ian Livingstone is one of the founding fathers of the British gaming industry. In Hacking the Curriculum, he and Shahneila Saeed explain the critical importance of coding and computing in modern schools - and offer teachers and school leaders real practical guidance on how to improve their current provision to a generation of youngsters for whom digital skills are critical.

Genres: Teaching

168 pages, Paperback

Published April 28, 2017

About the author

Sir Ian Livingstone is an English fantasy author and entrepreneur. Along with Steve Jackson, he is the co-founder of the Fighting Fantasy series of role-playing gamebooks, and the author of many books within that series. He co-founded Games Workshop in 1975 and helped create Eidos Interactive as executive chairman of Eidos Plc in 1995.

Reviews

[Jennie · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a soon to be trainee Computer Science teacher I absolutely loved this book. Being a more creative person anyway it was good to see ideas that could take the somewhat drier aspects of the curriculum and make them more creative, relevant and hopefully appealing to students.

There is a good mix of actual ideas of activities and how these link to the national curriculum, as well as theory behind why and how methods are effective for children's' learning.

This book covers all ages, and also includes ways to modify activities to suit different age groups. A really useful and enjoyable book. I've highlighted an awful lot of content.

[Ian Simpson · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's nice to have these ideas together in one book however they are not new, simply curated or inspired by other projects. For example there are a lot of Nintendo Wii games listed in one section. I agree that this might give teachers inspiration to make their lessons more active but it would have been nice to have read some progressive thoughts more in line with the year of publication.