Join us at the Computing at School & King’s College London Computing Teachers’ Conference for a day of exciting speakers and discussions, as well as hands-on workshops on classroom computing and more.
CKC 2026 will take place at King’s College London on 20 June 2026.
This in-person event in central London is open to Key Stage 3-5 computing teachers. It is an opportunity to discuss teaching best-practice with peers, discover new coding tools and pedagogies, and learn from academic staff from the Informatics department about new areas of research, expanding your knowledge beyond the curriculum.
Registration is free.
Keynote
Jens Mönig: Building Blocks for Building Blocks
Visual programming editors are mainly used to welcome beginners to the subject of computer science. Block based environments, in particular, eliminate syntax errors that would discourage learners and disrupt the course of a class. However, progressing beyond introductory activities around what is often dubbed Computational Thinking usually requires switching to a more feature rich, adult programming language. By contrast, Snap! takes blocks programming to the extreme. It has been developed and is used to teach a full semester of introductory computer science at university. Unlike other environments that treat blocks merely as an editing modality the Snap! programming language is largely written in its own blocks. Thus, Snap! lends itself to taking delight in demystifying and demonstrating even advanced computing concepts. Jens invites us to a live-coded exploration into his wacky, weird and hopefully wonderful world behind, above and throughout the beauty and joy of computing.
Jens Mönig is a researcher at SAP. He is the architect and lead programmer of UC Berkeley’s SNAP! programming language for which he has been awarded the U.S. National Technology Leadership Symposium Educational Leadership Award 2020 together with Brian Harvey. Previously Jens has helped develop Scratch for the MIT Media Lab and written enterprise software.
Programme
The programme will include talks and workshops by
Duncan Maidens and Gary Coxhead (Raspberry Pi)
Kathryn Cassidy Pachon (The Royal Institution)
Neil Brown (King’s College London)
Mark Weddell (City of London School for Girls)
Greg King (Magdalen College School, Oxford)
Rebecca D’Cruz (St Albans School)
Rebecca Franks and Tracy Gardner (Flip Computing)
Practicalities
- Refreshments: Lunch as well as refreshments (tea, coffee and biscuits) will be provided during the event.
- Accessibility: This event will take place in teaching rooms on the Strand Campus. The rooms are fully wheelchair accessible via lift, and there are accessible bathrooms in this building.