Apr 29 2016
Digital Leaders’ Year 7 #BBC Micro:bit Project
From the beginning, I never wanted to just give out 150 Micro:bits to Year 7s and hope good things would happen. Whether it’s staff or students, there has to be a strategy to engage people and build capacity. This is ours…
There were no Micro:bits after the official training. We bought 6 code bugs and Y8 Digital Leaders had their first taste of online coding and downloading hex files onto devices.
They did a tremendous job of showing Year 6s at the Opening Evening too.
We then brought in keen Year 7s through the Code Club, with peer training:
Oct 1 2016
BBC Micro:bit quests
We are on track to *finally* get our BBC Micro:bits out to our Year 8s… this is how we are going to do it … and we are excited about the Grok Learning Quest challenges for after half term.
Our Digital Leaders are trained up using out 3 step programme www.gr8ict.com/bbc_microbit More
By Chris Sharples • bbc #microbit, Code Club, Computer Science, Digital Leaders •