Micro:Bit — A Quick Start Guide for Teachers

by Ray Chambers

The BBC Quickstart Guide for Teachers is designed to support educators in effective use of the BBC devices distributed to all Year 7 students in the United Kingdom as part of the BBC's Make It Digital initiative. Supported by Microsoft and published by Hodder Education, this indispensable guide An introduction to the Make It Digital initiative An outline of what the BBC is and what it's designed to do Advice on how teachers and students can get the most out of the BBC device, including how the hardware and the supporting services work (including the BBC website, code editors and code compiler) Guidance on how to get started with creating programs for the BBC using the Microsoft Touch Develop Editor, and how to compile them and upload them to your device Coding lessons of varying difficulty with step-by-step walkthroughs and solutions for each activity Curriculum references, providing educators with opportunities to introduce key computational thinking concepts and map outcomes back to aspects of the English computing program of study

89 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 30, 2015