Lightning Talk at Scotland on Rails '09

This document discusses computing education in Scotland's schools. It outlines Fraser Speirs' background working on computing projects and teaching computing courses. It then discusses the Curriculum for Excellence (C4E) framework and how computing is incorporated. C4E aims to develop successful, responsible, confident and effective contributors. The document notes that the last review of the higher curriculum was in 2004, with the next scheduled for 2014. It advocates for programming to have a stronger role and discusses challenges like outdated teaching materials. It provides advice for parents and teachers to advocate for improvements to computing education.