We’re talking to Giles Booth about the BBC micro:bit. Giles is the Educational Content Manager at the BBC Microbit Foundation, and also used to teach Computer Science and ICT in primary and secondary schools in London.
The BBC micro:bit is a device about half the size of a credit card, plugs into a computer via a micro usb cable and then can easily be programmed via some web-based editors. In the end you download the compiled program with the click of a button in one of the editors and drag it over to the micro:bit like you would drop a file onto an USB stick. It’s super simple.
If there is a single educational computer science-related tool that you want to buy, that one is the BBC micro:bit. The BBC micro:bit is a really revolutionary educational tool!
https://kidslab.dev/2020/02/10/the-bbc-microbit-with-giles-booth/