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Do you want to Win a micro:bit at BETT 2016?
Are you going to BETT 2016? Would you like to win a BBC micro:bit? Then enter our Twitter selfie Win-a-micro:bit competition and you could be randomly selected to win a BBC micro:bit, which we will...
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Kodu with ComputerXplorers
Congratulations to three more primary schools that have been awarded the coveted Kodu School plaque for their innovative use of our coding software. Anglesey Primary School in Birmingham, Boldmere...
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CS50 Computer Science Principles Implementation Training Workshop May 27-29,...
Apply to attend the London session of the 2016 CS50 workshop. In response to educators expressing an interest in adopting curriculum that provides secondary school students with an introduction to...
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What’s in a name? Learn to code with Minecraft
Overheard this great conversation between a Teacher and Student this week, that I thought would share. Student – ‘ Sir, why is Python called Python?’ Teacher – ‘Its named after Monty Python’ Student...
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Kodu is to feature in British Science Week 2016!
Computing skills are intrinsically linked to science and on British Science Week digital day (Friday 11 March) education technology specialist and with the support of the Microsoft Educator...
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The BBC microbit will create entrepreneurs
The BBC microbit officially begins rolling out to a million students today. Somewhere in a class is a student who will be the next big deal in technology entrepreneurship. You may have the next Mark...
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Student ports Minecraft to micro:bit ??
This unbelievable piece of information landed on my desk this morning and it is so exciting, I thought I would share it with you before 12.00pm Ross Lowe, microbit evangelist and entrepreneur has just...
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Minecraft: Education Edition
At the BETT show in January, we announced a new version of Minecraft for education called Minecraft: Education Edition. Since then the Minecraft team have been busy working on...
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Miracle Babies
Many of you will know Nicki Cooper (nee Maddams) and her award winning work with Kodu. I suspect many of have used or are using her great Kodu resources that earned her the nickname ‘Queen of Kodu’....
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Computing at School – Diversity Conference
The Computing At School #include Diversity in Computing Education Conference 2016 will take place at the University of Manchester on 11th June 2016. This year our aim is to bring together the teaching...
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