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Smarter Lessons With Smart Revise Quiz’s: How To Crack The Code

Ever asked a student about something you taught last week, only to get a blank stare? It’s not that they weren’t paying attention—short-term memory is overloaded by the demands of multiple subjects. That’s where Smart Revise transforms learning.
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One charger to rule them all?

The UK is considering joining the EU in adopting USB-C as a universal charging standard. While this promises to simplify our lives and reduce e-waste, not all USB-C ports—or their capabilities—are created equal. Could this move streamline tech or stifle innovation?
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Craig ‘n’ Dave Newsletter: November 2024 

This month, we’re unveiling a redesigned Smart Revise tasks interface, confirming the 2025 Festival of Computing, and announcing updates to our terminology guides. Don’t miss the return of Christmas coding challenges, a farewell to the Lesson Hacker series, and the launch of our new one-minute video shorts.

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Our award-winning videos support teachers delivering Computer Science GCSE and A level.

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Craig 'n' Dave is best known for our ad-free, sponsor free videos on YouTube. Winner of the Teach Secondary best free resource 2023. We have four types of videos on our channel:

  • Knowledge videos: covering the content for every bullet point of each Computer Science specification we support, with revision notes for students.
  • "Lesson Hacker" videos: David Morgan presents current affairs in Computer Science that link to the specification with fertile questions in the video description that you can use to stimulate class discussions.
  • "Unscripted" videos: each month we present all the latest Craig 'n' Dave news with pedagogical discussions, and sometimes guest speakers too.
  • Resource highlight videos: we showcase features of our products: Smart Revise, Time 2 Code, Knowledge videos, and classroom resources.
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I got an A* in AQA A level computer science and I am still in shock because this was the A level I was most concerned about. I watched your videos religiously during the last months and I can't thank you enough.

Fatma from YouTube comments, August 2023.

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Thank you for producing the outstanding resources that you do; they have rapidly become my primary source of independent learning and have helped me to vastly increase my understanding of computer science. Gemma

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Time 2 Code is the best way to learn to code. Not just because it is completely free for everyone, but because it includes all the established pedagogies in a scheme that is the result of our 20 years' experience in teaching teenagers with amazing results. This is the only scheme with comprehensive scaffolding and differentiation. Even better, it is compatible with Mission Encodeable too.

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Wow – just discovered the TIME 2 CODE site – this will be a game changer for teaching my GCSE classes and possibly introducing lower down the school. Hummersknott Academy

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A huge thank you to everyone who attended our inaugural Craig'n'Dave and Friends conference in 2024 and helped to make it such a magnificent event. We really enjoyed connecting with so many of our friends and colleagues, and it was heartwarming to hear you had a wonderful time.

Back for 2025, with a new title to represent the evolution into a bigger and better event, "The Festival of Computing" by Craig'n'Dave on Wednesday 2nd July 2025 at Bromsgrove School. More coffee, more sessions and even an overnight stay option!


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