{"id":1387,"date":"2022-04-22T10:12:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T09:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/sweic\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2022-04-22T10:13:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T09:13:44","slug":"scottish-schools-to-receive-20-microbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/sweic\/?p=1387","title":{"rendered":"Scottish schools to receive 20 micro:bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Typography-module--defaultLight--hvpAB\">Every Primary school in Scotland will receive 20 V.2 micro:bits.\u00a0 The roll out of these devices started in April 2022 by The Micro:Bit Education Foundation and alongside this there is free comprehensive teaching resources and professional learning for all educators.\u00a0 Following this roll out in primary schools, every secondary school will also receive 20 V.2 micro:bits.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Professional Learning Offer<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>In collaboration with The Micro:bit Education Foundation we have created a new 3 part course,\u00a0<strong>This is Micro:bit,\u00a0<\/strong>which can be found on the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/digilearn\/professional-learning\/upcomingwebinars\/\">webinars page<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0of DigiLearnScot.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/digilearn\/2022\/04\/21\/19-may-11-1145-code-along-with-microbit-relaxation-mindful-breathing\/\">Live Code Along for learners from DigiLearnScot &amp; the Micro:bit Educational Foundation<\/a><\/strong>. Learners will write code for their micro:bit that will support relaxation and mindful breathing.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/2022\/03\/03\/microbit\/\">DigiLearnComputingScience<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>provides a comprehensive overview of the micro:bit V1 and V2 and you can also access our watch again webinar on\u00a0<strong>Getting started with micro:bit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/microbit.org\/\"><strong>The Micro:bit Education Foundation<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0provides extensive access to learning resources, ideas, and support to help get practitioners and learners started using the devices or to move onto more complex projects using the micro:bit.\u00a0 They will also be offering independent learning courses for educators in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barefootcomputing.org\/new_resources\">Barefoot<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0have created lesson plans to support outdoor learning with the micro:bit for ages 7 \u2013 11.<\/p>\n<p>Join our national computing science glow teams community for ELC &amp; primary educators<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/l\/team\/19%3a1be6b05eac534ba9a6ff2dc6a62f1b95%40thread.skype\/conversations?groupId=7e7f6f21-ea9b-4422-90c1-f61d3436decf&amp;tenantId=ccd32ca3-16ce-428f-9541-372d6b051929\"><strong>here<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Primary school in Scotland will receive 20 V.2 micro:bits.\u00a0 The roll out of these devices started in April 2022 by The Micro:Bit Education Foundation and alongside this there is<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/sweic\/?p=1387\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/sweic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/sweic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/sweic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/sweic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/sweic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/sweic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/sweic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/sweic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/sweic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/sweic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}