- PhD Student
I'm a second year PhD student at the Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre, under the supervision of Dr. Sue Sentance. I am interested in exploring how to teach programming to primary/secondary school students, with the hope of helping more pupils to enjoy, engage with, and achieve in computing.
I am always keen to help in any outreach initiative that aims to help more primary/secondary students enjoy and engage with computing. Please email me if you would like to talk with me about any such programs.
Teaching
- Supervise on the Part 1A "Object-Oriented Programming" course
- I am giving a lecture on HE+, a university-run program that aims to encourage high-performing students from underrepresented backgrounds to apply to the University of Cambridge and other highly-selective universities.
Publications
- Laurie Gale and Sue Sentance. 2023. Investigating the Attitudes and Emotions of K-12 Students Towards Debugging. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on United Kingdom & Ireland Computing Education Research (UKICER '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 7, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610969.3611120
- Laurie Gale. 2023. Improving the Teaching and Learning of Debugging in Secondary Schools. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on United Kingdom & Ireland Computing Education Research (UKICER '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 31, 1. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610969.3611143