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CAS Physical Computing Thematic Community meeting

When 28 Feb 2024 Start16:00 End17:00
Organised by Peter Marshman
Community Type

Thematic Community

Event Type

Online

Join new adopters and experienced physical computing educators as we hear from a special guest showing the importance of context updates from the various sub-groups.

All welcome, whether you are new to physical computing or an expereinced educator.  It's a great opportunity to collect new ideas, share best practice and stay up to date.

At this session we will have special guests the Micro:bit Foundation who will be sharing the micro:bit playground survey

Jo Inglis, Producer at Micro:bit Educational Foundation talking about the national BBC micro:bit – the next gen campaign and an intro to the playground survey; Jo Inglis jo.inglis@microbit.org

 Introduction to the BBC micro:bit playground surveyAs part of the BBC micro:bit - the next gen campaign, primary school pupils can get involved in a large-scale playground survey during the summer term. Children will use the BBC micro:bit to investigate the size, biodiversity, temperature and pupil activity levels in their school playground. The survey activities will introduce pupils aged 7-11 to machine learning and working with digital data. Join us for a walk through of the exciting resources .

For further information

Peter Marshman

peter.marshman@bcs.uk