Schlagwort: computational thinking
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Join the UK Bebras Challenge 2024
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe UK Bebras Challenge, the nation’s largest computing competition, is back and open for entries from schools. This year’s challenge will be open for entries from 4–15 November. Last year, over 400,000 students from across the UK took part. Read on to learn how your school can get involved. What is UK…
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Integrating computational thinking into primary teaching
Reading Time: 6 minutes“Computational thinking is really about thinking, and sometimes about computing.” – Aman Yadav, Michigan State University Computational thinking is a vital skill if you want to use a computer to solve problems that matter to you. That’s why we consider computational thinking (CT) carefully when creating learning resources here at the Raspberry…
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Take part in the UK Bebras Challenge 2023 for schools
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe UK Bebras Challenge is back and ready to accept entries from schools for its annual event, which runs from 6 to 17 November. More than 3 million students from 59 countries took part in the Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge in 2022. In the UK alone, over 365,000 students participated. Read on…
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UK Bebras participants in the Oxford University Computing Challenge
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday we share a guest blog from Chris Roffey, who manages the UK Bebras Challenge, a computational thinking challenge we run every year in partnership with the University of Oxford. Bebras is a free annual challenge that helps schools introduce computational thinking to their learners through online, self-marking tasks. Taking part in…
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Computational thinking all year round with UK Bebras
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis November, teachers across the UK helped 367,023 learners participate in the annual free UK Bebras Challenge of computational thinking. ‘Bebras’ is Lithuanian and means ‘beaver’. We support this challenge in the UK, together with Oxford University, and Bebras Challenges run across the world, with more than 3 million learners from schools…
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Join the UK Bebras Challenge 2022 for schools
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe UK Bebras Challenge is back and ready to accept entries from schools for its annual event from 7 to 18 November. More than 3 million students from 54 countries took part in the Bebras Challenge in 2021. Read on to find out how you can get your school involved. What is…
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The machine learning effect: Magic boxes and computational thinking 2.0
Reading Time: 10 minutesHow does teaching children and young people about machine learning (ML) differ from teaching them about other aspects of computing? Professor Matti Tedre and Dr Henriikka Vartiainen from the University of Eastern Finland shared some answers at our latest research seminar. Their presentation, titled ‘ML education for K-12: emerging trajectories’, had a…
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Take part in the UK Bebras Challenge 2021 for schools!
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe annual UK Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge is back to provide fun, brain-teasing puzzles for schools from 8 to 19 November! In the free Bebras Challenge, your students get to practise their computational thinking skills while solving a set of accessible, puzzling, and engaging tasks over 40 minutes. It’s tailored for age…
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Join the UK Bebras Challenge 2020 for schools!
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe annual UK Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge for schools, brought to you by the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Oxford University, is taking place this November! The Bebras Challenge is a great way for your students to practise their computational thinking skills while solving exciting, accessible, and puzzling questions. Usually this 40-minute challenge…
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Embedding computational thinking skills in our learning resources
Reading Time: 3 minutesLearning computing is fun, creative, and exploratory. It also involves understanding some powerful ideas about how computers work and gaining key skills for solving problems using computers. These ideas and skills are collected under the umbrella term ‘computational thinking’. When we create our online learning projects for young people, we think as…
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Testing young children’s computational thinking
Reading Time: 5 minutesComputational thinking (CT) comprises a set of skills that are fundamental to computing and being taught in more and more schools across the world. There has been much debate about the details of what CT is and how it should be approached in education, particularly for younger students. In our research seminar…
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation and Bebras
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe are delighted to announce a new partnership that will ensure the long-term growth and success of the free, annual UK Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge. ‘Bebras’ means ‘beaver’ in Lithuanian; Prof. Valentina Dagiene named the competition after this hard-working, intelligent, and lively animal. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has teamed up with Oxford…
