Physical Computing: To the U.K. and Beyond! - Sept 2018

© Micro:bit Educational Foundation 2018
Physical Computing:
To the U.K. and Beyond!
Hal Speed
Code.org International Summit
Chief of Global Engagement,
Micro:bit Educational Foundation
12 September 2018
@HalSpeed @microbit_edu
Presentation available at halspeed.com or
slideshare.net/hal_speed

Rural, working-class family
High-tech career
Code.org volunteer
CS4TX founder
Micro:bit Educational
Foundation (non-profit)
1st generation university
graduate
@HalSpeed

Education is the ticket to socioeconomic mobility,
and in the digital age…
computer science education is the golden ticket
@HalSpeed

Session Objectives
1. Provide a high-level view of computer science
education
2. Introduce physical computing and the micro:bit
3. U.K. case study and beyond
4. Provide links to lots of resources
5. This is not a sales pitch!
@HalSpeed

5 Source: http://curriculumredesign.org/wp-content/uploads/CCR-Plenary-intro-Charles-Fadel1.pdf (excluding computer science)
Computer Science

Crossing the Chasm
6 Source: Geoffrey Moore; Everett Rogers
All StudentsSelect Students
WE
ARE
HERE

10 © Micro:bit Educational Foundation 2018
@microbit_edu @HalSpeed
Micro:bit Designed as a Learning Tool for
Students

Quick Demo

Anyone know what this is?

13
2015
 BBC Make It Digital
 29 partners
 1 million micro:bit devices
 11-12 year olds
 Across the U.K.

14
Paloma Faith, Boy George, Ricky Wilson and will.i.am

15
What if robots replaced teachers?
https://youtu.be/rjCkiNRM-FI

16
Positive student response
49 49
55
45
41 40 33
42
Agree Strongly Agree
micro:bit helped
show me that
anyone can code
Using micro:bit
helped me learn
more about
coding/
programming
micro:bit helped
me see that
coding is not as
difficult as I
thought it was
Using micro:bit
helped me learn
something new
90% 89% 88% 87%
Source: Discovery Research, BBC

17
Uplift in intention to study coding
36
45
62
23
39
48
36
33
35
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Users Girls Non users
Wave 1
Pre-micro:bit
benchmark
Wave 2 Wave 3
% of students likely to
take ICT or computing
as an option

18
Likely to use in the future
Likelihood to use micro:bit in
future academic years…
41% 29% 3% 2% 0%
Definitely Very likely Quite likely Neutral Quite
unlikely
Very
unlikely
Definitely
not
7%18%
NET: Likely = 87%

Inspiring every child to
create their best digital
future
2016 Micro:bit Educational
Foundation Formed

20
Strategic Partners

Confidential © Micro:bit Educational Foundation 201821
Expanding Globally
Now available in 50
countries
microbit.org in
13 languages
National roll-outs
in UK, Iceland, Croatia,
Singapore, Denmark, and
more
140 + partner
ecosystem
globally

© Micro:bit Educational Foundation201813
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e
e
Iceland
▪ First micro:bit roll out after U.K.
▪ Changed the Icelandic school
curriculum,with the focus moving
away from maximisingknowledge to
the application of knowledge - a
paradigm shift.
▪ A key aspect of the new curriculum
was afocus on codingand teaching
computational thinkingwhich they
used the micro:bit to deliver
▪ In Second year of project delivery

Singapore
Let by Adrian Lim Info-communications Media
Development Authority. Singapore now have 100,000
micro:bits in schools and the larger community. Which
is about 300 to 400 micro:bits per school.

Croatia - crowdfunding
Initially 20,000 micro:bits were given away to
primary schools and libraries as a result of a
crowdfunding campaign. This is over 1 thousand
schools.

Croatia - now
A further 75,000 in the process of roll out for year 6
and libraries funded by the government. Initial
research shows it has been a great success thus far.

Denmark
 DR, the Danish Broadcasting
Corporation, is launching a
65,000 micro:bits programme
for Year 4 students.
 Supplied with support from the
Danish Industry Foundation,
Industriens Fond, in
collaboration with the country’s
Centre for Learning Materials,
CFU Denmark.
 A third of eligible schools
signed up in a month.

micro:bit in Sri Lanka, 2k children already

Micro:bit Global Challenge
 Kick-off 24 September 2018
 More information at https://microbit.org/global-challenge/

Lessons Aligned to Code.org CS
Fundamentals
 Lessons extend the concepts taught in the Code.org curriculum by using
micro:bit and MakeCode
 Course E – Loop and Functions
 Course F – Variables and Conditionals
4th Grade 5th Grade
Course E Course F
http://microbit.org/teach/code-org-fundamentals/

Resources
Detailed micro:bit presentation
https://www.slideshare.net/Hal_Speed/microbit-workshop-july-2018
Catalog of physical computing and robotics devices
https://www.slideshare.net/Hal_Speed/cs4tx-austin-sept-2017
Building a CS education coalition
https://www.slideshare.net/Hal_Speed/statewide-coalition-panel-3-april-
2017
Wonder Workshop Code.org-aligned curricula
https://education.makewonder.com/curriculum/

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