Hai I'm Ahmad izzuddin, a teacher from Malaysia or to be more specific from east Malaysia which is Sabah, a beautiful place surround with beach and sea. I teach in primary school and most of my students came from rural family. I run a weekly after school meetup (every Tuesday) that share about digital maker and their response is very positive. As early as 9 years old, my student will get the exposure about Arduino kit, block programming, 3D printing, Raspberry Pi and many more. But for micro:bits board, it’s a new for us since we do not have one. I sure my student will be glad to have micro:bits board in their maker space.

I’ve search information about capacities of micro:bits. I plan to have a workshop on how to program micro:bits and make a mini competition of project making using micro:bits.

Thank you,

Ahmad

I am a technology teacher in a large primary school in Australia.  I have taught in a range of schools across a diverse range of subject fields.  Currently I am using Bee-bots and Scratch to teach coding but can see that Micro:bits offers a practical opportunity for the students to develop their understanding.

We are currently implementing coding in the school due to mandatory syllabus changes that include teaching digital technology.  Using micro:bits, I would like to up-skill the staff so they can gain experience and confidence to teach coding through a simple interface.  By developing staff competency, coding is more likely to be integrated across the curriculum. By teaching the educators, we will have more success having coding being a part of the class, and not a separate concept.

Hi, this fyaocn from China.

I have participated in several Roadtests by Element14 community. I am active member of some local communities too, like http://bbs.eeworld.com.cn/forum.php . I am preparing one series of Python Lessons for middle school students now.

Would this effort on writing one book on Teaching Python with micro:bits be qualified for this contest. Or I would like to be of some help for the global promotion of micro:bits in some ways,  if possible.

Hey! Im Eika Johnson. I am a STEAM teacher and  a Maker Space Maker! I teach 6th graders and woilf love to include micro:bits into our Maker Space! My kiddos enjoy learning new things and I know that this piece would allow them to imagine a whole new world.

Hi, my name is Robbie Drake and I am a primary school teacher.

I have recently set up a coding club within our school, which the children are extremely enthusiastic about! The children really seem to engage with the idea of using coding and I am keen to offer new and exciting ways for discovery and learning.

I am looking for some equipment to extend the children's knowledge and curiosity of coding and believe that your packs would be a wonderful way to do this.

I would love to demonstrate how the micro:bit equipment works in order to extend our learning of coding. It would provide the children with a different perspective, as we currently use a lot of software on computers.

I feel that the equipment would be very useful within our coding club sessions and would also be used by all teachers within other areas of the curriculum.

Thank you

My name is Pravin and I am the Outreach Coordinator for Victoria University, Wellington NZ. I have been a classroom teacher for the last 8 years as well as running sessions for teachers in a range of topics from Physical computing to CS. Currently my role involves me going around schools and helping teachers to learn and update their skills in the new Digital Technology curriculum that the government has just introduced. Some schools its easier with resources being easily accessible whereas some schools are taking longer.

I am currently working with a group of schools in East Porirua, Wellington which is mostly an underprivileged area. A lot of students there come from difficult situations and the teachers are doing a fantastic job. On 11 October I have a full day Professional Development course organised for those 30 teachers. I will bring all my resources along. But will unfortunately have to take them back at the end of the session.

I was keen to setup a resource library for a range of things like Microbits, BeeBots, mBots, etc which the teachers can use to teach the unit of work, issue out from the library and then return for some other teacher to use. I am approaching the local businesses for support. Meanwhile a giveaway like this would do a lot to kick start this resource library for them. I would appreciate if you consider this application.

Please read more about our outreach on www.techteacherslog.net and follow us on #ECSOutreach on Twitter.

Good luck to everyone else.

Hello to all,

I am a Computer Science teacher in Portugal, in very nice village called Batalha. I ´ve been teaching for the last 24 years, students with ages between 11 to 20 years old.

During 15 I taught students with no motivation to school where we had to work in a very different way to prevent school dropout. Working with these students gave me the opportunity to have a different approach in my classes, I always involve my students in national our international projects, such eTwinning, I always try to engage them and happy in classes.

Although I teach in Batalha I live in a small village called Alcanede, from a rural area were we has social and economic problems, with no activities related to technologies or coding or communication or collaboration skills.

Last year I discover CoderDojo global movement of free, volunteer-led, community-based computer programming clubs and I apply to launch a Dojo in my village.

We start our Dojo in January and we have done a few activities, children used Micro:bit that Microsoft from Portugal borrow us, but we really would like to have our owns and any other resources that we could use. Since we can buy anything because we have no money it would be really interesting to have our own.

I believe is important for us to develop these 21st skills in children’s but we also need materials to do different activities.

The idea is for us to use micro:bit to do activities, that engage boy and also girls, because it they need more feminine activities like wearables, jewelleries’…to be motivated.

We plan to create projects that can involve STEMs but also longer project that can be useful to offer in Christmas for charity house or nursing home.

Hello element14 Community,

My name is Jay and I am a technology coach this year, after teaching on class in junior school for the past 6 years. My role is to support teachers to integrate technology into their classrooms. I am currently working at a low socioeconomic public primary school (P-6) in Qld, Australia. We have almost 800 students with many who speak English as a second language. I run lunch time coding, before school makerspace, a tinkering lab and a junior engineering class.

If I were successful in receiving one of the sets of micro:bits, I would initially use them in our before school makerspace as an engagement tool to get students to school on time (or even early). It would be complementary to our current lunch time coding club, making the coding more tangible and hands on. My vision is to later move them into the classroom as part of our Digital Technologies curriculum, of which we are currently writing.

Thank you for running such an excellent competition, and putting technology into the hands of underfunded schools.

Jay Page

hy

im nicoleta cindea methodist physics teacher at technical college from Romania .

also im scientix volunteer ambassador for europeanschool net and i want to learn how could write codes  for can participade with students at robotics competition or at astro pi .

now i try find very serios sponsor for open a experimental hub in my areas trying to introduce my students in different robotics / stem competitions

i wish trough this pack to use in my lessons physics .

Hi, i'm a teacher in an italian Professional School in Building Automation and Automotive. I want to build with automotive students a system that represent a vehicle and some of sensors or systems in it. Something like weight or light sensors, acceleration measure, adas systems for security or control of motors and velocity.

Thanks for this opportunity!

Gabriele