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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"My Precious"? – One CPD for them all !

“My Precious”? Posted on December 10, 2015 by lannywatkins75   Paul ‘Lanny’ Watkins is one of our latest Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts and #MECClub member. To be fair, he is more Bilbo Baggins...

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MEC Club Christmas Party BETT giveaway

For those that have joined #MEC Club, our social media CPD (and you still can at any time ——) We have a very special present for you to redeem at BETT. We have partnered with Prodigy, who will be able...

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Skype-a-thon

When – December 3rd – 4th Take a break from the Xmas plays and festivities by taking part in a 24 hr Skype-a-thon, a global classroom experience. Click this image to register for an activity. Check...

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First rule of MEC Club is, talk about MEC Club

As an avid Twitter user and participant of the hash chat, I have been thinking could Twitter be used to deliver CPD courses in a social way? As sort of ‘not so massive online course’. I would like 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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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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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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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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"My Precious"? - One CPD for them all !

"My Precious"? Posted on December 10, 2015 by lannywatkins75 Paul 'Lanny' Watkins is one of our latest Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts and #MECClub member. To be fair, he is more Bilbo Baggins...

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MEC Club Christmas Party BETT giveaway

For those that have joined #MEC Club, our social media CPD (and you still can at any time ------) We have a very special present for you to redeem at BETT.We have partnered with Prodigy, who will be...

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