It has taken a long time for the BBC micro:bit to finally reach students in the UK. The device was first announced in 2015, but it has gone through a series of delays that kept pushing its release ...
We took part in a coding workshop as the pocket sized computer got an update - see what we made and try them for yourself! Recently at BBC Research & Development, we got our hands on the new BBC micro ...
A dozen teenagers in military fatigues sit quietly fiddling with small devices in antistatic bags, waiting, like the other kids around them, for further instruction. A teacher murmurs a few sentences ...
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Primary school teacher Manon Watkins has been teaching children to code using the BBC micro:bit for five years at schools in Wales. She was looking into different tools that could help her pupils ...
Coding is for everyone! That’s the big message we want to get out there as part of our micro:bit – the next gen campaign… With this in mind, we spoke to a primary school teacher, a digital learning ...
Recently at BBC Research & Development, we got our hands on the new BBC micro:bit v2, a pocket-sized computer first launched in 2015 to help teach computer science. The first generation of this device ...