Micro:bit: There’s Nothing Micro About This Learning
Session Info
Get ready for a fun hands-on workshop where you’ll learn how to teach literacy with physical computing and coding using the Micro:bit. Participants will be making products using design thinking using the Micro:bit device. This workshop will have you making clever devices for your classroom. You’ll learn best practices and gain access to a multimedia training website that you can use later when you work with others or teach the students you serve.
Slidedeck From Session
Software Layout
PC Download
MAC Download
Getting Started
Animation Demo
Slides 22 & 23
Input Demo
Slides 26 & 27
Radio Demo
Choice Board
Code Example
Radio Project
Slides 28-40
Additional Resources and Links
Getting Started Series
Next Step Series
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Minecraft Selfie
Hollywood Squares
Project Guides by Coffeechug
Reflections of Learning and Teaching with Micro:bit
Project Examples and Workshops I've Done With Schools
Full Day Workshop (ran this with 7th grade students in 2017)
4th Grade Interdisciplinary Project 2018
4th Grade Interdisciplinary Project 2017
SparkFun Resources
On the SparkFun Education site, you will find a wide variety of micro:bit resources, including the suggested grade level continuum for the SparkFun micro:bit ecosystem. Some specific resources you may find of interest are:
- 7 Week micro:bit Curriculum
- 14 Week micro:bit Curriculum
- Adams 12 Five Star Schools Story
- Getting Started With micro:bit Videos
- micro:bit for Educators Summer Professional Development
- SparkFun Professional Development Options
Additionally, we recently hosted a webinar with most of the same information you received in person. If you would like to watch it, or share it with someone who may benefit from the information, you can access the recorded version of the webinar here. The presentation slide deck from the webinar can be found here.
We had some audio difficulties at the start, so you may want to skip ahead to around 13:50 where the presentation was started over with audio.
Resources to Explore
- Start Coding: a great site to learn programming. no software installs and plenty of help to learn how to code with Micro:bit as well as many other platforms
- Projects and Tutorials - Everything you would want from MakeCode
- Scratch 3.0 - Now integrates with Micro:bit to infuse storytelling and animation and game creation with physical computing.
- Main Website: – The main website for Micro:bit. Be sure to check out the Ideas page and Teach page for curriculum
- Project Ideas: my go to site. This has a ton of projects to experiment with as well as access to the 14 week computer science curriculum
- Code Club project ideas
- Order hardware
- Download Minecraft and Code Connection
- Download micro:bit curriculum
Wakelet of Resources for Micro:bit (I continue to update this collection as I learn each day!
Wakelet Link - https://wke.lt/w/s/eggrsk