(Dagbladet): The British Broadcasting Corporation BBC has a wish that coding should be as fundamentally as writing.
To make this dream to become reality, they have gone to a somewhat unusual step: Next year they will give away one million mini-PCs to British schoolchildren.
Springboard
It is all part of a new initiative, called Make it Digital, and the software is still under development. The aim is that it should teach children basic coding and programming, and so act as a springboard to more advanced coding. The resembles Raspberry Pi-minipc-one and they get resources for training of Raspberry Pi Foundation.
The BBC also announced that they will collaborate with 50 organizations, including Google, Microsoft and Samsung, to arrange a variety of activities related to education.
– Only the BBC can gather partners around something so ambitious and so important for Britain’s role in the world in the future, said Chief of Initiative Tony Hall said.
Can create simple games
Lack of digital skills is a major problem in the UK. PCs, which has been named Micro Bit can program simple games and to create text via a series of LEDs. However, only a single case. After this litter have got their Micro Bits, they pull away from the market.
Increased focus
But hope is that this initiative, as part of a larger package, will increase its focus around technology, when all the country’s eleven year olds in the country receive their new mini-PC (picture here) .
Better in Norway, but …
Norwegian pupils score way high on digital skills. Of 18 countries that were tested came out second best in a survey from 2013. 30 percent satisfied the requirements for the top two skill levels. Meanwhile 24 percent of Norwegian students at level 1 or lower. Socioeconomic background has the most to say for how pupils score on the test.
The study is done by IEA (The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement).
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