A new coding tool will help make it easier for children to portably program a popular educational micro-computer on the fly. Researchers from Lancaster University's School of Computing and ...

Learning coding equips students with critical thinking, problem-solving, and computational skills. It is essential for schools to develop opportunities for students to learn computational thinking ...

This research paper was presented at the 23rd annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (opens in new tab) (IDC 2024) the premier forum for inclusive child-centered design and learning.

The BBC Micro:bit, while not quite as popular in our community as other microcontroller development boards, has a few quirks that can make it a much more interesting piece of hardware to build a ...

As a math teacher, I constantly tell my students that math is everywhere and they will use it daily. It always brings me great joy when something so common as a box of cereal sparks an idea for a ...

We’ve been working on a new iteration of the Python editor for the micro:bit. 🐍🎉 ️ We thought it made sense to raise an issue here to signpost it for all the contributors and users of this repo. We ...

The Micro:bit Educational Foundation, which includes the BBC, launched the original micro:bit open source ARM-based embedded system back in 2016 as a way of encouraging children to write software and ...