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UPDATED roundup of Python micro:bit resources

Posted on May 29, 2016 by blogmywiki

Here’s a summary of my Python resources and projects for the BBC micro:bit which you may find useful… you’ll need the Mu editor to flash some of these, especially the ones that use the radio module. Connect a thermal till … Continue reading →

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Happy Scratch Day!

Posted on May 14, 2016 by blogmywiki

UPDATED for 2017! To mark Scratch Day, here are some teaching resources I made – mostly, but not all, to do with ICT / Computing: Binary Numbers Quiz – binary to denary Binary Numbers Quiz – denary to binary Hexadecimal … Continue reading →

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Coding as a way of understanding the Monty Hall problem

Posted on April 24, 2016 by blogmywiki

The other night a maths teacher and I were sharing a few cold drinks and we fell to discussing the Monty Hall Problem. Now, you may have heard of the Monty Hall Problem even if you don’t know it by … Continue reading →

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Would you want to work at Matthew & Son?

Posted on April 18, 2016 by blogmywiki

I’ve been familiar with the 1966 Cat Stevens song ‘Matthew & Son’ since I was a youngling, and indeed back then it seemed like a grim existence working for the Man. And his son. And yet it was only the … Continue reading →

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Logging classroom temperature on a Raspberry Pi

Posted on April 18, 2016 by blogmywiki

Today I logged the temperature in our ICT room as part of a wider Y7 project on data handling, spreadsheets and climate change. We’re taking real historical weather data, analysing it in Excel and making Word documents about our findings. … Continue reading →

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