http://www.wired.com/2015/07/bbc-microbit-computer/
All told, it’s an incredibly open-ended device, by design. “This is about getting kids making and doing stuff,” Baker says. “And through that they will start coding.”
BBC Learning head Sinead Rocks said the project was about "young people learning to express themselves digitally" through coding. http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/8/8910685/bbc-micro-bit-final-design-giving-away-to-kids
All told, it’s an incredibly open-ended device, by design. “This is about getting kids making and doing stuff,” Baker says. “And through that they will start coding.”
BBC Learning head Sinead Rocks said the project was about "young people learning to express themselves digitally" through coding. http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/8/8910685/bbc-micro-bit-final-design-giving-away-to-kids
The BBC's director general Tony Hall said the device should help tackle the fact children were leaving school knowing how to use computers but not how to program them.
ReplyDeleteChildren will be encouraged to write simple code for the Micro Bit via a new website, which will be accessible on both PCs and mobile devices.
In addition, it can be connected to other computing kit via its input-output rings including the Raspberry Pi, Arduino and Galileo - to carry out more complex tasks.
"As the Micro Bit is able to connect to everything from mobile phones to plant pots and Raspberry Pis, this could be for the internet-of-things what the BBC Micro was to the British gaming industry."
Source:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33409311