This week, we started our online computing learning. The excitement in the room was PALPABLE!
We’re using micro:bits…
…tiny computers that you can program to do a virtually unlimited number of awesome things!
This linked to simulation (one of our computing words) because the makecode website where you program the micro:bit has an ‘emulator’. This shows you what your code will do once it’s been downloaded to your physical micro:bit.
Once we were finished exploring, it was time to download the code and see it in action! We made it say hello to us, or show a heart or play a tune when you pressed a certain button.
We are so looking forward to the rest of the topic!
Help at home by asking your child about our computing words: repetition, internet, simulation, World Wide Web, computer network, variable and selection.