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The Teachmate AI updated exam questions generator tool is very useful and timely just as I am preparing year 11 for their CS exams! The tool includes indicative answersโ€ฆthank you Mr P ICT & Dr Chips!

The Teachmate AI updated exam questions generator tool is very useful and timely just as I am preparing year 11 for their CS exams! The tool includes indicative answersโ€ฆthank you Mr P ICT & Dr Chips!

Make it rain cats, dogs & pandas ๐Ÿ•๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿผ: https://mrlovellcomp.micro.blog/2025/03/01/make-it-rain-cats-dogs.html

My Algeria workshop worksheets for @microbit.org Pacman๐ŸŸก๐Ÿ‘ป Mario Kart ๐Ÿš—๐Ÿช™Space Invaders ๐Ÿ‘พ Flappy Bird๐Ÿฆ and more may be accessed for ๐Ÿ†“ by scanning the QR code in this image or at this link ๐Ÿ‘‰ drive.google.com/drive/folโ€ฆ

Teachers ๐Ÿ‘‹ Make Coding Engaging Again in your classroom by having children make games like flappy bird ๐Ÿฆ on the @microbit.org ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ•น๏ธ Children add levels, sound effects, more sprites and anything they can think of ๐Ÿ˜€ Follow me to see the worksheet for this game and many more ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘‡

Getting ready for my @microbit.org workshop tomorrow in Algiers. Making games is fun, hoping to inspire teachers with using engaging computer science activities in their classrooms - if they are excited their kids will be too! ๐Ÿ‘พ๐Ÿ›ธ๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿ•น๏ธ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ˜€

Teachers ๐Ÿ‘‹ Make Coding Awesome Again in your classroom by having children create a game inspired by Mario Kart on the @microbit.org ๐Ÿš— Collect coins and avoid the other racers ๐Ÿช™ Children can change controls, add levels, sound effects and more. Follow me to see more ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ˜€

My Algeria workshop worksheets for @microbit.org Pacman๐ŸŸก๐Ÿ‘ป Mario Kart ๐Ÿš—๐Ÿช™Space Invaders ๐Ÿ‘พ Flappy Bird๐Ÿฆ and more may be accessed for ๐Ÿ†“ by scanning the QR code in this image or at this link ๐Ÿ‘‰ drive.google.com/drive/folโ€ฆ

Are you looking at incorporating an AI unit into your computing long term plan? This unit is focused on supporting understand in UKS2. My vision was supporting those children in a ever growing digital environment. ๐ŸŽฏ How AI works? ๐ŸŽฏ Ethics and AI ๐Ÿ”— www.computingatschool.org.uk/resources/20...

Looking forward to sharing how I use the micro:but in my classroom on the 22nd February in Algiers including children making retro games inspired by space invaders ๐Ÿ‘พflappy bird๐Ÿฆmario kart๐Ÿš—๐Ÿช™ and pacman ๐ŸŸก๐Ÿ‘ป Letโ€™s go!๐Ÿ•น๏ธ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿ‘‡

Teachers ๐Ÿ‘‹ Make Coding Awesome Again in your classroom by having children create a game inspired by Mario Kart on the @microbit.org ๐Ÿš— Collect coins and avoid the other racers ๐Ÿช™ Children can change controls, add levels, sound effects and more. Follow me to see more ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ˜€

Teachers ๐Ÿ‘‹ Make Coding Engaging Again in your classroom by having children make games like flappy bird ๐Ÿฆ on the @microbit.org ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ•น๏ธ Children add levels, sound effects, more sprites and anything they can think of ๐Ÿ˜€ Follow me to see the worksheet for this game and many more ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘‡

Teachers ๐Ÿ‘‹ Want to Make Coding Exciting Again in your classroom ๐Ÿค” Have children in your classroom make space invaders ๐Ÿ‘พ๐Ÿš€on the @microbit.org - and have them make the game their own by adding levels, sound effects and anything they think of. Follow me to see the worksheet ๐Ÿ‘‡

Teachers ๐Ÿ‘‹ Want to Make Coding Exciting Again in your classroom ๐Ÿค” Have children in your classroom make space invaders ๐Ÿ‘พ๐Ÿš€on the @microbit.org - and have them make the game their own by adding levels, sound effects and anything they think of. Follow me to see the worksheet ๐Ÿ‘‡

Look at the Digital Literacy parts of the NC for Computing with our first year BA Primary Teacher Education trainees this week. Discussing the importance of teaching children to be more than just users of tech-> critical thinkers and creators! #Computing #ITT #TeamCompSci #EduSky

We had our final group ๐Ÿ›ธ esports match today, and the girls made me this lovely card with a quote - "You helped us believe in ourselves. Self-belief is the highest form of power!" ๐Ÿ˜ข ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ•น๏ธ

We had our final group ๐Ÿ›ธ esports match today, and the girls made me this lovely card with a quote - "You helped us believe in ourselves. Self-belief is the highest form of power!" ๐Ÿ˜ข ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ•น๏ธ

Excited to share that I have been invited by the British Council to share how I use the @microbit.org and AI to engage children with coding and creativity with educators in Algeria at the end of February. I will share the worksheets here - follow me to see them! ๐Ÿ•น๏ธ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ˜€

๐Ÿ“ขWe've created posters, career cards, display board materials, teacher door signs. Perfect for open evenings & parents' nights, school/dept social media & webpages helping teachers promote Computing Science. Sign up to get access to the FREE resources. dresscode.org.uk/choose-computing-science

Wonderful time any time @ BES. Fun surprise to be scheduled in a class with a school coach who also is techy. Synergy doubled! Connecting @microbit.org coding to story planning in grade 2/3 G.

This is a whopping 1Mb of ram to go into my KS1 #spectrumnext purchased for the princely sum of ยฃ10๐Ÿ˜…

PlayStation Network outage leads to rush of complaints from gamers

Another win for the UFOs ๐Ÿ›ธ Our first esports team has been a revelation - the girls have organised themselves, developed match strategies, picked the team and organised practice matches with friends at the weekend. One game left to make the national final! Let's go! ๐Ÿ•น๏ธ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ˜ƒ bit.ly/4hsLrAH

Another win for the UFOs ๐Ÿ›ธ Our first esports team has been a revelation - the girls have organised themselves, developed match strategies, picked the team and organised practice matches with friends at the weekend. One game left to make the national final! Let's go! ๐Ÿ•น๏ธ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ˜ƒ bit.ly/4hsLrAH

This is what has been keeping us busy for the past few weeks! There have been some significant changes but there are still lots of reasons to to be excited about the NCCE offer. #TeamCompSci #CSED #CASCHAT

With micro:bit 'Lunar Attack'๐ŸŒ•๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿš€ children create stars scrolling in the background to create an impression of depth, fast movement and drama in their game. Follow me to see the code and worksheet for children 11-14๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ•น๏ธ๐Ÿ˜€

Pupils playing with data capture and Microbit to train AI this afternoon! That was a lot of fun ๐Ÿ‘ #TeamCompSci

With micro:bit 'Lunar Attack'๐ŸŒ•๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿš€ children create stars scrolling in the background to create an impression of depth, fast movement and drama in their game. Follow me to see the code and worksheet for children 11-14๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ•น๏ธ๐Ÿ˜€

Sharing my microbit python games mini booklet ๐Ÿ•น๏ธIncluding Simon Says, the Tamagotchi guessing game and more! These games are a great way to introduce learners 11-14 to python ๐Ÿ˜€ Download the pdf for *free* and find sample code @github.com here ๐Ÿ‘‰ github.com/MrL832/mrlov...

Some lovely photos from our eSports match yesterday ๐ŸŽฎ We had loads of fun - our girls were ferocious...! Read more here, including action shots of my 'coaching'โ€ฆ ๐Ÿคฃ ๐Ÿ‘‰ www.thorntoncollege.com/2025/01/29/i...

All set for our Overwatch all girls esports match this evening with NewcastleHigh! Let's go UFOs! ๐Ÿ›ธ

Any #teamcompsci who teach AQA A Level & using Visual Studio 2022? I'm finding that the new API.net CORE that's replaced the old aspx for web based database projects is problematic, anyone else with similar experiences?

Here is a booklet of worksheets for "cross country race" ๐Ÿ‘Ÿ in MakeCode Arcade ๐Ÿ•น๏ธIt shows how to add obstacles ๐Ÿ„ ๐ŸŒณlevels, lava ๐ŸŒ‹ and more. Follow me to see more engaging coding worksheets for *free* Click here to access ๐Ÿ‘‰ drive.google.com/file/d/1NP8M... #TeamCompSci

๐Ÿ‘‹ Teachers - children have enjoyed making this school cross country running ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™€๏ธgame with Makecode Arcade. They have added in sprites with their school PE kit, PE teachers and obstacles including cows and lava! Follow me to see the coding worksheet for *free* ๐Ÿ‘‡ ๐Ÿ˜ƒ #TeamCompSci

๐Ÿ‘‹ Teachers - children have enjoyed making this school cross country running ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™€๏ธgame with Makecode Arcade. They have added in sprites with their school PE kit, PE teachers and obstacles including cows and lava! Follow me to see the coding worksheet for *free* ๐Ÿ‘‡ ๐Ÿ˜ƒ #TeamCompSci

We are excited for our second esports match today with Leicester High School for Girls ๐Ÿ˜ƒ Let's go UFOs! ๐Ÿ›ธ

How is Finland teaching AI in schools? New blog on a talk given by Matti Tedre, currently visiting us at @rpcerc.bsky.social: computingeducationresearch.org/blog-develop...

Now that I have my workspace back I can finally start to take a look at the barn-found Commodore 64 I was given back in the summer

How can children as young as 7 learn how AI works? I'm hosting a short webinar this afternoon at 5pm UK time about CreateAI, a free tool for exploring machine learning with the BBC #microbit - join me! Sign up for free here:

I have had badges made of the girls esports team logo. Looks great ๐Ÿ‘

I have had badges made of the girls esports team logo. Looks great ๐Ÿ‘

Teachers ๐Ÿ‘‹ here is a *free* collection of games that learners 8-14 can make that uses the micro:bit's radio including Just dance ๐Ÿ•บ๐Ÿ’ƒ, Splatoon ๐ŸŸก battleships โš“ and 2 player bat and ball ๐Ÿ Access the worksheet pdfs here ๐Ÿ‘‰ drive.google.com/file/d/1JdMX...

We are excited for our first all girls Overwatch eSports match Thorntoncollege V NewcastleHigh this week. Let's go UFOs! ๐Ÿ›ธ Thank you British Esports and GSAUK for organising!

If you want a different way to practice or perform Scot's poem with your class, create Scratch animations! Could be done with any poem. I have a lesson with video tutorial available here: mrmorrison.co.uk/scratch/

We are excited for our first all girls Overwatch eSports match Thorntoncollege V NewcastleHigh this week. Let's go UFOs! ๐Ÿ›ธ Thank you British Esports and GSAUK for organising!