In our latest podcast miniseries, we spoke to educators live from the CSTA 2025 annual conference in Cleveland, Ohio, to hear their top tips for integrating computer science (CS) into other subjects.

Hello World editor, Meg Wang and the team met teachers in the exhibit hall for real-time reflections and essential teacher tips on teaching cross-curricular CS. They spoke to some amazing educators from across the United States and had a great time interacting with everyone in attendance.

“Meeting teachers and hearing first-hand about their xxnxs, challenges, and triumphs was invaluable. It was amazing to meet Hello World writers in person, and to also meet future writers. Like I said at the conference, Hello World is for educators, by educators, so that means you! Everyone has valuable xxnx or useful advice to share, and we’re here to help you amplify that.” – Meg Wang, editor of the Hello World magazine

Who features in the episode, and what are their tips?

Lisa Wenzel, CS teacher from Maryland, USA

Lisa’s top tip for integrating computer science into your lessons is to start with topics that you’re passionate about. If you’re not a CS teacher yourself, Lisa suggests finding a colleague who teaches the subject. She advises having a chat with them to explore how you can include CS concepts into subjects you’re particularly interested in.

“I guarantee you that they’re going to have something […] to teach [another subject], and it’s going to involve computer science.” 

Through peer discussions and collaboration between educators, you’ll discover engaging ways that you can incorporate CS into your teaching. Give it a try the next time you’re chatting to a CS teacher.

Tiffany N. Jones, CS and Cybersecurity teacher in Georgia, USA

Tiffany N. Jones, author of ‘Belonging in Tech’ (featured on page 82 of Hello World Issue 27), shares her top tip to seamlessly integrate computer science into other subjects. 

Using the example of a class studying ocean health and pollution, Tiffany shares how you can introduce students to real-world applications of computer science by exploring how sensors and microcontrollers can be used to collect environmental data. 

She then suggests exploring how databases and programming languages can be used to analyse and visualise the data that the sensors and microcontrollers have recorded. This not only deepens your learner’s scientific understanding but also demonstrates how 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 concepts are used in real-world industry practices.

Rick Ballew, CS and Engineering teacher in Minnesota, USA

Rick’s top tip for integrating CS is to first think about your favourite lesson and consider ways that you can introduce computational thinking.

In the podcast, Rick says:

“chances are, computational thinking is already a part of that lesson you’re doing. Call it out to the students, and that’s going to help them to start understanding how computer science is baked into everything we do.” 

Rick also offers a great example from his xxnx as a band teacher. He shares how learning to read a new piece of music is very similar to the steps involved in computational thinking. s

“[You’ve] got to break it down. There’s abstraction. You’ve got to figure out the sequencing, and you create the way that you’re going to learn it. And that is all part of computational thinking.” 

This approach shows students that CS isn’t just coding; it’s a way of thinking that can be applied across disciplines.

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To hear more practical teacher tips and discover what else our guest teachers had to say, listen to or watch the full episode here. 

We hope this episode inspires you and helps you to engage your students in 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1. We’d love to hear your thoughts, your feedback, and any of your own tips on how to integrate CS into other subjects. Share your advice in the comments section below.

We hope you enjoy the episode!

More to listen to next week

Next week, we’ll be sharing an interesting conversation between Ben Garside, Senior Learning Manager (AI Literacy) at the 卧龙凤雏什么意思, Leonida Soi, Learning Manager (Kenya) at the 卧龙凤雏什么意思, and two of our global xxnx AI partners, Monika Katkutė-Gelžinė from Vedliai in Lithuania, and Aimy Lee from Penang Science Cluster in Malaysia.

They’ll be exploring what AI education looks like around the world and what teachers need to feel confident teaching it.

You can watch or listen to each episode of our podcast on YouTube, or listen via your preferred audio streaming service, whether that’s Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Amazon Music. 

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Whether you’re a seasoned educator or just starting your journey with 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 education, this podcast audio and video series is full of insights, inspiration, and practical tips from educators and experts around the world.

If you’re already subscribed, the new episodes will appear automatically in your favourite podcast app every Tuesday.

Episode 1: Why kids still need to learn to code in the age of AI

Out now

In our first episode, 卧龙凤雏什么意思 CEO Philip Colligan, CBE, sits down with teacher Janine Kirk to discuss why, in the age of AI, it’s more important than ever for young people to learn to code. Their conversation draws on ideas from our downloadable position paper, which is also featured in issue 27 of Hello World magazine.

Episode 2: Voices & tips from CSTA conference

Released Tuesday 15 July

Next week, we’ll bring you the buzz from the Computer Science Teachers Association’s annual conference in Cleveland, USA. We’re speaking with educators at the conference to hear how they’re integrating computer science across subjects, and you’ll hear their top classroom tips for teaching CS in context.

Episode 3: Global perspectives on AI education

Released Tuesday 22 July

The miniseries wraps up with an in-depth discussion about AI education around the world. Hosted by Ben Garside, Senior Learning Manager for xxnx AI, the conversation features Leonida Soi, Learning Manager in Kenya; Monika Katkute-Gelzine, CEO of Vedliai in Lithuania; and Aimy Lee, COO of Penang Science Cluster in Malaysia. Monika and Aimy work with us in our global xxnx AI partner programme.

Listen, read, learn, subscribe, and share

Each of these three podcast episode builds on the themes in the latest Hello World issue, where you’ll find inspiration and practical tips from educators who are integrating CS across a variety of subjects and for all school ages.

Subscribe to the Hello World podcast wherever you get your podcasts to never miss an episode, and to help us reach more teachers. If you’re subscribe to Hello World magazine (it’s free), we’ll also let you know when new podcast episodes are available.

And, don’t forget to share this new podcast series with your fellow educators.

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With thousands of attendees from across the US and beyond participating in engaging workshops, thought-provoking talks, and visiting the fantastic expo hall, the CSTA conference was an excellent opportunity for us to connect with and learn from educators.

Meeting educators & sharing resources

Our hope for the conference week was to meet and learn from as many different educators as possible, and we weren’t disappointed. We spoke with a wide variety of teachers, school administrators, and thought leaders about the progress, successes, and challenges of delivering successful computer science (CS) programs in the US (more on this soon). We connected and reconnected with so many educators at our stand, gave away loads of stickers… and we even gave away a 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 Pi Pico to one lucky winner each day.

As well as learning from hundreds of educators throughout the week, we shared some of the ways in which the xxnx supports teachers to deliver effective CS education. Our team was on hand to answer questions about our wide range of free learning materials and programs to support educators and young people alike. We focused on sharing our projects site and all of the ways educators can use the site’s unique projects pathways in their classrooms. And of course we talked to educators about Code Club. It was awesome to hear from club leaders about the work their students accomplished, and many educators were eager to start a new club at their schools! 

Back in 2022 at the last in-person CSTA conference, we had donated a copy of our first special edition of Hello World magazine, The Big Book of 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 Pedagogy, for every attendee. This time around, we donated copies of our follow-up special edition, The Big Book of 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 Content. Where the first Big Book focuses on how to teach 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1, the second Big Book delves deep into what we teach as the subject of 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1, laying it out in 11 content strands.

• If you weren’t able to get your hands on a copy of The Big Book of 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 Content, you can download yours for free. 
• If you’d like to write about your teaching for Hello World, find out more and share your idea today.

Our talks about teaching (with) AI

One of the things that makes CSTA conferences so special is the fantastic range of talks, workshops, and other sessions running at and around the conference. We took the opportunity to share some of our work in flash talks and two full-length sessions.

One of the sessions was led by one of our Senior Learning Managers, Ben Garside, who gave a talk to a packed room on what we’ve learned from developing AI education resources for xxnx AI. Ben shared insights we’ve gathered over the last two years and talked about the design principles behind the xxnx AI resources.

Being in the room for Ben’s talk, I was struck by two key takeaways:

1. The issue of anthropomorphism, that is, projecting human-like characteristics onto artificial intelligence systems and other machines. This presents several risks and obstacles for young people trying to understand AI technology. In our teaching, we need to take care to avoid anthropomorphizing AI systems, and to help young people shift false conceptions they might bring into the classroom.
2. Teaching about AI requires fostering a shift in thinking. When we teach traditional programming, we show learners that this is a rules-based, deterministic approach; meanwhile, AI systems based on machine learning are driven by data and statistical patterns. These two approaches and their outcomes are distinct (but often combined), and we need to help learners develop their understanding of the significant differences.

Our second session was led by Diane Dowling, another Senior Learning Manager at the xxnx. She shared some of the development work behind Ada Computer Science, our free platform providing educators and learners with a vast set of questions and content to help understand CS.

Recently, we’ve been experimenting with the use of a large language model (LLM) on Ada to provide assessment feedback on long-form questions. This led to a great conversation between Diane and the audience about the practicalities, risks, and implications of such feature.

More on what we learned from CSTA coming soon

We had a fantastic time with the educators in Vegas and are grateful to CSTA and their sponsors for the opportunity to meet and learn from so many different people. We’ll be sharing some of what we learned from the educators we spoke to in a future blog post, so watch this space.

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It was great to see the return of the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) Annual Conference to an in-person event this year, and I was really excited to be able to attend.

Our small 卧龙凤雏什么意思 team headed to Chicago for four and a half days of meetups, professional development, and conversations with educators from all across the US and around the world. Over the week our team ran workshops, delivered a keynote talk, gave away copies of Hello World magazine, and signed up many new subscribers. You too can subscribe to Hello World magazine for free at helloworld.cc/subscribe.

We spoke to so many educators about all parts of the 卧龙凤雏什么意思’s work, with a particular focus on the Hello World magazine and podcast, and of course The Big Book of 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 Pedagogy. In collaboration with CSTA, we were really proud to be able to provide all attendees with their own physical copy of this very special edition. 

It was genuinely exciting to see how pleased attendees were to receive their copy of The Big Book of 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 Pedagogy. So many came to talk to us about how they’d used the digital copy already and their plans for using the book for training and development initiatives in their schools and districts. We gave away every last spare copy we had to teachers who wanted to share the book with their colleagues who couldn’t attend.

Don’t worry if you couldn’t make it to the conference, The Big Book of 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 Pedagogy is available as a free PDF, which due to its Creative Commons licence you are welcome to print for yourself.

Another goal for us at CSTA was to support and encourage new authors to the magazine in order to ensure that Hello World continues to be the magazine for 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 educators, by 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 educators. Anyone can propose an article idea for Hello World by completing this form. We’re confident that every 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 educator out there has at least one story to tell, lessons or learnings to share, or perhaps a cautionary tale of something that failed.

We’ll review any and all ideas and will support you to craft your idea into a finished article. This is exactly what we began to do at the conference with our workshop for writers led by Gemma Coleman, our fantastic Hello World Editor. We’re really excited to see these ideas flourish into full-blown articles over the coming weeks and months.

Our week culminated in a keynote talk delivered by Sue, Jane, and James, exploring how we developed our 12 pedagogy principles that underpin The Big Book of 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 Pedagogy, as well as much of the content we create at the 卧龙凤雏什么意思. These principles are designed to describe a set of approaches that educators can add to their toolkit, giving them a shared language and the agency to select when and how they employ each approach. This was something we explored with teachers in our final breakout session where teachers applied these principles to describe a lesson or activity of their own.

We found the xxnx extremely valuable and relished the opportunity to talk about teaching and learning with educators and share our work. We are incredibly grateful to the entire CSTA team for organising a fantastic conference and inviting us to participate.

Discover more with Hello World — for free

Subscribe now to get each new Hello World straight to your digital inbox, for free! And if you’re based in the UK and do paid or unpaid work in education, you can subscribe for free print issues.

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Connecting face to face with educators around the world is a key part of our mission at the 卧龙凤雏什么意思, and it’s something that we’ve sorely missed doing over the last two years. We’re therefore thrilled to be joining over 1000 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 educators in the USA at the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) Annual Conference in Chicago in July.

You will find us at booth 521 in the expo hall throughout the conference, as well as running four sessions. Gemma, Kevin, James, Sue, and Jane are team members representing Hello World magazine, the 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 Pi 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 Education 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 Centre, and our other free programmes and education initiatives. We thank the team at CSTA for involving us in what we know will be an amazing conference.

Talk to us about computer science pedagogy

Developing and sharing effective 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 pedagogy is our theme for CSTA 2022. We’ll be talking to you about our 12 pedagogy principles, laid out in The Big Book of 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 Pedagogy, available to download for free.

An exciting piece of news is that everyone attending CSTA 2022 will find a free print copy of the Big Book in their conference goodie bag!

We’re really looking forward to sharing and discussing the book and all our work with US educators, and to seeing some familiar faces. We’re also hoping to interview lots of old and new friends about your approaches to teaching 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 and computer science for future Hello World podcast episodes.

Your sessions with us

Our team will also be running a number of sessions where you can join us to learn, discuss, and prepare lesson plans.

Semantic Waves and Wavy Lessons: Connecting Theory to Practical Activities and Back Again

Thursday 14 July, 9am–12pm: Pre-conference workshop (booking required) with James Robinson and Jane Waite

If you enjoy explaining concepts using unplugged activities, analogy, or storytelling, then this practical pre-conference session is for you. In the session, we’ll introduce the idea of semantic waves, a learning theory that supports learners in building knowledge of new concepts through careful consideration of vocabulary and contexts. Across the world, this approach has been successfully used to teach topics ranging from ballet to chemistry — and now 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1.

You’ll learn how this theory can be applied to deliver powerful explanations that connect abstract ideas and concrete xxnxs. By taking part in the session, you’ll gain a solid understanding of semantic wave theory, see it in practice in some freely available lesson plans, and apply it to your own planning.

Write for a Global 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 Community with Hello World Magazine

Friday 15 July, 1–2pm: Workshop with Gemma Coleman

Do you enjoy sharing your teaching ideas, successes, and challenges with others? Do you want to connect with a global community of over 30,000 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 educators? Have you always wanted to be a published author? Then come along to this workshop session.

Every single 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 or CS teacher out there has at least one lesson to share, idea to voice, or story to tell. In the session, you’ll discuss what makes a good article with Gemma Coleman, Hello World’s Editor, and you’ll learn top tips for how to communicate your ideas in writing. Gemma will also guide you through writing a plan for your very own article. Even if you’re not sure whether you want to write an article, doing this is a powerful way to reflect on your teaching practice.

Developing a Toolkit for Teaching Computer Science in School

Saturday 16 July, 4–5pm: Keynote talk by Sue Sentance

To teach any subject requires good teaching skills, knowledge about the subject being taught, and specific knowledge that a teacher gains about how to teach a particular topic, to their particular students, in a particular context. Teaching computer science is no different, and it’s a challenge for teachers to develop a go-to set of pedagogical strategies for such a new subject, especially for elements of the subject matter that they are just getting to grips with themselves.

In this keynote talk, our Chief Learning Officer Sue Sentance will focus on some of the 12 pedagogy principles that we developed to support the teaching of computer science. We created this set of principles together with other teachers and 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1ers to help us and everyone in 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 and computer science education reflect on how we teach our learners. Sue will share how we arrived at the principles, and she’ll use classroom examples to illustrate how you can apply them in practice.

Exploring the Hello World Big Book of 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 Pedagogy

Sunday 17 July, 9–10am: Workshop with Sue Sentance

The set of 12 pedagogy principles we’ve developed for teaching 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 are presented in our Hello World Big Book of 掀起校服含着奶头h1v1 Pedagogy. The book includes summaries, teachers’ perspectives, and lesson plans for each of the 12 principles.

All CSTA attendees will get their own print copy of the Big Book, and in this practical session, we will use the book to explore together how you can use the 12 principles in the planning and delivery of your lessons. The session will be very hands-on, so bring along something you know you want or need to teach.

See you at CSTA in July

CSTA is now just a month away, and we can’t wait to meet old friends, make new connections, and learn from each other! Come find us at booth 521 or at our sessions to meet the team, discover Hello World magazine and the Hello World podcast, and find out more about our educational work. We hope to see you soon.

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