24 results for “microbit”
More than a yellow bear
Have you ever had to send an email with a broken hand or arm? What is normally a rapid and frequent activity for most of us suddenly becomes fraught with difficulty and frustration. Technology is ubiquitous and yet people with limited hand or arm dexterity are left behind because accessibility has not kept pace with...
Coding the Future
To celebrate National Coding Week, we catch up with some of the Micro:bit Educational Foundation players to find out how they came to coding and what lessons they are learning from their work helping young people gain these useful skills. Kavita Kapoor, COO, Micro:bit Educational Foundation When did you first learn to code? When I...
What’s the exam result for girls in tech?
We may not be teenagers anymore, but the August exam results still hold us in thrall. If you have children of your own, it can be make-or-break time for ambitions and university aspirations. For everyone else, exam results are an opportunity to benchmark the future generation of workers. What can we expect from the talent...
Empowering the future generation
Technology is advancing and evolving at an extraordinary pace, but we face the very real risk of getting left behind our own progress. Only 42% of adults are classed as ‘digitally savvy’, and an estimate suggests the UK already faces a shortfall of 40,000 people with the necessary skills to meet the needs of the...
Networking with the micro:bit
Just over a year ago, Nominet helped found the Micro:bit Educational Foundation, an organisation seeking to continue the work started by the BBC and its partners by taking the micro:bit global, accessing as many young people as possible to impart valuable coding skills. The BBC micro:bit was designed to get children involved in writing software...