«A coherent computing curriculum? The English experience».
Miles is principal lecturer in Computing Education at the University of Roehampton, where he teaches on the University’s teacher training and digital media programmes. Prior to joining Roehampton, he spent 18 years in four schools, much of the time as an ICT coordinator and most recently as a head teacher.
He is a board member of England’s National Centre for Computing Education, Computing At School and the BCS Academy of Computing. He is a fellow of the BCS, RSA, HEA and Chartered College of Teaching, and a member of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Over the years he has contributed to a number of computing related projects including the national curriculum computing programmes of study, Switched on Computing, Barefoot Computing, QuickStart Computing, CAS TV, Project Quantum, Hello World, the National Centre for Computing Education and the AI4K12 initiative.
He gives regular keynotes and CPD workshops on computing and education technology in the UK and abroad and has worked on a number of international consultancy projects involving technology enhanced learning, curriculum development and CPD.