Education
The BBC is providing formal learning to help both teachers and children in classrooms, and combining this with hands-on events to inspire and allow people to explore their digital potential.
Live Lessons
To inspire young people to get creative with coding and digital technology, BBC Learning is producing a series of Live Lessons.
To celebrate British Science Week, the BBC is at The Big Bang Fair bringing coding to life with The Voice UK themed Live Lesson on Computer Science for Upper Key stage 2 and Key Stage 3.
Clara Amfo from CBBC's Techobabble and The Official Chart on Radio 1 will be joined by special guests to demystify and celebrate computer science's creative potential. Guests will include Lilly Kam, Will.i.am’s coding mentor, who will explain key coding concepts; Muki Kulhan, The Executive Producer of The Voice UK app; and Sam Aaron, Live Music Coder and creator of Sonic Pi. The Voice UK - Make it Digital - Live lesson will be 45 minutes long and will be webcast live on Friday 13 March at 11am.
On March 20 to coincide with the solar eclipse, there will be a Stargazing Live Lesson, which will come from Leicester Race Course. Featuring CBBC’s Technobabble’s Marcus Bronzy and Vlogster, the 40-minute lesson will be performed in front of an audience of 300 pupils and explore how coding is essential to space exploration. Schools can tune into both lessons via bbc.co.uk/livelessons.
Make it Digital UK Roadshow
BBC Learning is also partnering with English Regions and the Nations to deliver a multi-location tour throughout the summer, to showcase the role of digital creativity in shaping the UK’s present and future. The Make it Digital Roadshow will bring digital creativity to life for a family audience, through key BBC brands like Doctor Who and BBC Weather, as well as featuring local examples of cutting edge digital innovation. Full details of location as will be announced at a future date.
BBC School Report
BBC News School Report is an annual project which works with secondary schools throughout the UK to help 11-16 year olds make their own news. On March 19 more than 1000 schools and 30,000 teenagers will be joining BBC staff in classrooms and BBC buildings to make and broadcast their reports.
This year as part of the BBC’s Making It Digital project there will be a special emphasis on the role of coding and digital creativity in news broadcasting. School Reporters are going behind the scenes to find out about New News App, robotic cameras, General Election GFX and the role of code in reporting the weather.
Thousands of teachers are also being given exclusive access to the code that will enable them to create a graphic for their website in exactly the same way News does. School Report has also created resources linking news making to the new computing curriculum and have set schools a computing challenge with 4 tasks linked to jobs undertaken by BBC Online staff.
