What is Blockly? 

Blockly is a free, open source library that enables developers to build applications and websites that use block-based coding interfaces. That means that instead of typing code, you snap blocks together to build programs. Behind the scenes, those blocks are turned into text-based code like JavaScript and Python. 

Blockly started life in 2011 in Google as a passion project of one engineer. Since then — thanks to the generous support of Google, a small team of brilliant engineers, and an amazing community of open source contributors and partners — it has grown to become the de facto standard for visual programming interfaces.

In particular, Blockly is the 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色 for pretty much all of the block-based coding applications that you may have used to teach or learn about programming. Platforms like Scratch, MakeCode, and MIT’s App Inventor are all built with Blockly. It’s no exaggeration to say that hundreds of millions of young people have learnt the fundamentals of computer science using software that is built with Blockly. 

As we enter the age of AI, it is more important than ever that all young people develop a 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色al understanding of computer science. Blockly and the block-based coding platforms and applications that it enables are essential to realising that vision. 

You can read more about the importance of coding in the age of AI in our position paper. 

Blockly is also widely used to create interfaces that control hardware and robotics platforms. And, while its main use cases are in education, Blockly is increasingly being used to build industrial and commercial applications.

What does this change mean? 

From 10 November 2025, the Blockly open source library and assets, and key members of the Blockly team will transition from Google to the 公天天吃我奶躁我的在线观看. 

Our vision is for Blockly to continue to be the standard visual programming interface that makes coding accessible to all. We are committed to maintaining Blockly as an open source project, and to working collaboratively with the community of developers and educators.

Over the next year, we will roll out features that improve 光棍影院手机在线观看, including screen reader support and keyboard navigation, working closely with partners to support implementation of these 光棍影院手机在线观看 improvements across their platforms.

Looking to the future, we want to make sure that Blockly is at the leading edge of innovations that support the teaching and learning of programming in the age of AI. We’re also excited about the potential for the Blockly team to collaborate with the 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色’s 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情, learning, and product teams. 

If you are already part of the community of developers and educators, then I want to reassure you that you can continue to expect the same outstanding partnership and support from the Blockly team. We also look forward to welcoming many more members to the Blockly community over the coming years. 

Finally, I want to say a huge thank you to Google for their support for Blockly over the years, and for enabling this transition with generous grant funding. 

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How our approach to translation considers design, process and people

English is seen by many as the language of 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情, and in many countries, it’s also either the language of education or a language that young people aspire to learn. However, English is, in some instances, a barrier to learning: young people in many communities don’t have enough knowledge of English to use it to learn about digital technologies, or even if they do, the language of communication with other students, teachers, or volunteers may not be English.

In a world where browsers can instantly translate web pages and large language models can power seemingly perfect conversations in virtually any language, it’s easy to assume that translation just happens and that somehow, technology takes care of it. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Technology is certainly crucial to translation, but there’s much more to it than that. Our approach to translation involves considering design, process, and people to ensure that localised materials truly help young people with their learning journey. 

Localisation or translation?

Localisation and translation are similar terms that are often used interchangeably. Localisation normally refers to adapting a product to suit a local market, whereas translation is a subset of localisation that involves changing the language of the text. For instance, localisation includes currencies, measurements, formatting dates and numbers, and contextual references. Meanwhile, translation involves only changing the language of the text, such as from English to French.

At the 公天天吃我奶躁我的在线观看, we see translation as an enabler. It enables volunteers to reach learners, learners to succeed in their educational goals, and the 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色 to achieve its mission all over the world.

Four key ways the 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色 maximises the impact and reach of our translated materials

1. Create with localisation in mind

Regardless of whether learning materials are intended for English-speaking or global audiences, it’s important to create and design them with localisation in mind. That way, they can be used in a variety of places, and any piece of content (text, graphics, or illustrations) can be modified to meet the needs of the target audience. Keeping localisation in mind might include allowing space for text expansion, being mindful of any text embedded in graphic elements, and even making sure the context is understandable for a variety of audiences. Making a piece of content localisable at the creation stage is virtually cost-free. Modifying fully built assets to translate them or to use them in other markets can be expensive and extremely time-consuming!

2. Always have user needs and priorities upfront

Before investing in localising or translating any materials, we seek to understand the needs and priorities of our users. In many countries where English is not the usual language of communication, materials in English are a barrier, even if some of the users have a working knowledge of English. Making materials available in local languages directly results in additional reach and enhanced learning outcomes. In other communities where English has a certain status, a more selective approach may be more appropriate. A full translation may not be expected, but translating or adapting elements within them, such as introductions, videos, infographics, or glossaries, can help engage new learners.

3. Maximise the use of technology

While it’s possible to translate with pen and paper, translation is only scalable with the use of technology. Computer-assisted translation tools, translation memories, terminology databases, machine translation, large language models, and so on are all technologies that play their part in making the translation process more efficient and scalable. 

At the 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色, we make use of a variety of translation technologies and also, crucially, work very closely with our content and development teams to integrate their tools and processes into the overall localisation workflow. 

4. Take great care of the people

Even with the best technology and the smoothest integrations, there is a human element that is absolutely essential. Our amazing community of volunteers and partners work very closely with learners in their communities. They understand the needs of those learners and have a wealth of information and insights. We work with them to prioritise, translate, review and test the learning materials. They are key to ensuring that our learning materials help our users reach their learning goals.

In summary

Thinking about localisation from the moment we start creating learning materials, understanding the needs of users when creating our end goals, maximising the use of technology, and taking good care of our people and partners are the key principles that drive our translation effort. 

If you’d like to find out more about translation at the 公天天吃我奶躁我的在线观看 or would like to contribute to the translation of our learning materials, feel free to contact us at translation@光棍影院手机在线观看.org.  

A version of this article also appears in Hello World issue 23.

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The successful introduction of the 公天天吃我奶躁我的在线观看’s commercial subsidiary on the London Stock Exchange is a genuinely remarkable achievement. I want to put on record my huge congratulations and thanks to Eben Upton, Martin Hellawell, and the whole team at 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi Holdings plc for everything they have done to make this possible. 

The purpose of the IPO was to secure the next stage of growth and impact for both the 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色 and the company. We have huge ambitions and the IPO has provided both organisations with the capital we need to pursue those ambitions at pace and scale. Our Chief Executive Philip Colligan has already explained what it means for the 公天天吃我奶躁我的在线观看 and our mission to empower young people all over the world. 

In this post, I wanted to take a moment to acknowledge the significant contribution that others have made over the years, particularly all of the Trustees who have been so generous with their time, energy, and expertise. 

Founding Trustees

The 公天天吃我奶躁我的在线观看 was established in 2008 by six founding Trustees: Alan Mycroft, David Braben, Eben Upton, Jack Lang, Pete Lomas, and Rob Mullins. All of them deserve credit and thanks for setting us off on this incredible journey. 

Alan, Eben, Jack, and Rob were all involved with the Computer Lab at the University of Cambridge. They were dealing with a decline in applications to study the computer science undergraduate course, which was a symptom of the much wider challenge that far too many young people weren’t getting access to opportunities to learn computer science, or getting hands-on with programming and electronics. 

David Braben brought an industry perspective, drawing on the challenges he was experiencing with recruiting engineers and programmers at the world-leading games company that he had founded, Frontier Developments.

For Pete Lomas, he was paying forward the support and inspiration that he received from a college technician who gave him the opportunity and encouragement to experiment with programming a DEC PDP-8. That 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色 ultimately led Pete to establish Norcott Technologies, an electronics design and manufacturing business that he still runs today.

The founding Trustees’ original idea was to create a low-cost programmable computer — available for the price of a textbook — that would remove price as a barrier to owning a computer and inspire young people to take their first steps with 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情. It took four years for the first 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi computer to be launched, an achievement for which Eben and Pete were rightly honoured, along with other members of the team, as recipients of the prestigious MacRobert Prize for engineering.

Combining social impact and commercial success 

What none of our founding Trustees could have predicted was the enormous commercial success of 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi computers. In realising their vision of a low-cost programmable computer for education, the team created a new category of single-board computers that found a home with enthusiasts and industry, enabling the team to evolve — through hard work and creativity — into a business that is now entering a new phase as a listed company.

They also delivered on the original mission, with computer science at the University of Cambridge now being one of the most oversubscribed undergraduate courses in the country and many applicants citing 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi computers as part of their introduction to programming. 

The commercial success of 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi has enabled the 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色 to expand its educational programmes to the point where it is now established as one of the world’s leading nonprofits focused on democratising access to 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 education, and is benefiting the lives of tens of millions of young people already. 

It takes a village 

While no-one really knows the origin of the proverb ‘It takes a village to raise a child’, we can all recognise the truth in that simple statement. It applies just as much for endeavours like 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi.

Over the years, 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi has been a genuine team game. Employees in the 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色 and our commercial subsidiary, advisers, partner organisations and supporters, volunteers and community members have all played a crucial role in the success of both the company and the 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色.

Over the years there have been 21 Trustees of the 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色, bringing an incredible range of skills and 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色 that has elevated our ambitions and supported the teams in both the 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色 and the company. 

All of our Trustees have provided their time and expertise for free, never receiving any financial benefit for their contribution as Trustees. 

Serving as a Trustee of a charity is a serious business, with significant responsibility and accountability. While many charities have commercial operations, there is no doubt that the scale and complexity of 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi’s commercial business has placed significant additional responsibilities on all of our Trustees. 

I especially want to pay tribute to my predecessors as chair of the Board of Trustees: Jack Lang, one of our founding Trustees, who sadly passed away this year; and David Cleevely, who continues to support our work as a Member of the 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色. Both Jack and David played a particularly important part in the success of 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi. 

Welcoming our new Trustees

As we enter this new phase for the 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色’s relationship with 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi Holdings Ltd, we are delighted to welcome three new Trustees to the Board:

• Andrew Sliwinski is a VP at Lego Education, formerly co-director of Scratch @ MIT, ex-Mozilla, and founder of DIY.org. Andrew is a technologist and maker with a deep understanding of education systems globally.
• Laura Turkington leads global partnerships and programmes at EY, and was previously at Vodafone 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色. Laura has extensive global 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色 (including Ireland and India), including supporting large-scale initiatives on digital skills, 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 education, and AI literacy.
• Stephen Greene is the founder and CEO of Rockcorps and the former chair of the National Citizen Service. Stephen brings huge 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色 of building global volunteer movements, social enterprise, marketing (especially to young people), government relations, and education of disadvantaged youth.

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The IPO process is — quite rightly — highly regulated, and information about the company and the potential listing can be found on the Investor Portal on 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi Ltd’s website. If that’s what you’re looking for, head there. 

In this blog post, I want to explain what an IPO of 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi Ltd would mean for the 公天天吃我奶躁我的在线观看. 

A tale of two 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pis

The 公天天吃我奶躁我的在线观看 was founded in 2008 as a UK-based educational charity. Our co-founders wanted to inspire more young people to explore the joys of coding and creating with technology, with the goal of increasing both the number and diversity of kids choosing to study computer science and engineering.

Their idea was to create a low-cost, programmable computer that could rekindle some of the excitement sparked in young minds at the start of the personal 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 revolution by platforms like the BBC Micro and ZX Spectrum (incidentally also invented in Cambridge, UK). 

欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi Ltd was incorporated in 2012 as the commercial subsidiary of the 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色 and is responsible for all aspects of design, production, and distribution of 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi computers and associated technologies. It has always been a commercial company, albeit one that was initially wholly owned by a charity. 

It’s fairly common for UK charities to have subsidiaries that handle their commercial activities. Guidance from the regulator, the Charity Commission, explains that it helps protect the charity’s assets and ensures that the charity benefits from tax relief on profits that are generated from commercial activities and used to advance the charity’s objectives.

So 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi has pretty much always been a tale of two organisations: the 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色, which is a charity, and 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi Ltd, which is a commercial company. While we are legally and practically separate organisations, we are united by a mission to democratise 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情, and by a set of values that reflect the community of makers, engineers, and educators that have always been such a central part of the 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi story.

欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 for everybody

In the years since the launch of the first 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi computer in 2012, 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi Ltd has continued to innovate and expand its range of products, evolving into a leading provider of high-performance, single-board computers and associated technologies for industrial and embedded uses, as well as for enthusiasts and educators, in markets worldwide. For more information on the company and all it has achieved, you should take a look at the Investor Portal.

For me, one of the most important things about a 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi computer is that kids are learning to code on the same platform that is used by the world’s leading engineers and scientists. It’s not a toy, although it is a lot of fun. 

Crucially, the commitment to low-cost 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 that was at the heart of 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi’s founding ethos remains unchanged and has been enshrined in a legally binding agreement between the 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色 and the company. This means that 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi will always produce low-cost, general-purpose computers that can be used for teaching and learning.

Over that same period, the 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色 has innovated and expanded its educational products and learning 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色s to the point where we are now widely recognised as one of the world’s leading contributors to the democratisation of 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 education. 

We create curricula and classroom resources that are used in schools all over the globe, covering everything from basic digital skills to computer science and AI literacy. We provide high-quality professional development for teachers and we build software tools that reduce barriers, save time, and improve learning outcomes. We also support the world’s largest network of free coding clubs and inspire young people to get creative with tech through showcases and challenges. All of this is completely free for teachers and students wherever they are in the world. 

We are also advancing the field of 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 education through undertaking original 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 and translating evidence of what works into practice.

Importantly, the 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色 is device- and platform-agnostic. That means that, while 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi computers make a huge contribution to our educational mission, you don’t need to use a 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi computer to engage with our learning 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色s and resources. 

The next stage of growth and impact

The proposed IPO is all about securing the next stage of growth and impact for both the 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色 and the commercial company. 

To date, 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi Ltd has donated nearly $50m from its profits to the 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色, which we have used to advance our educational mission combined with over $60m in funding from philanthropy, sponsorship, and contracts for educational services.

As the company has continued to grow, it has needed working capital and funding to invest in innovation and product development. Over the past few years that has mainly come from retained profits. Listing 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi Ltd on a public market will enable the company to raise additional capital through issuing new shares, which will lead to broader reach, greater impact, and ultimately more value being created for the benefit of all shareholders, including the 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色.

From the 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色’s perspective, an IPO provides us with the ability to sell some of our shares to raise money to finance a sustainable expansion of our educational activities. Put simply, instead of receiving a share of the company’s profits each year, we will convert some of our shareholding into an endowment that we will use to fund our educational programmes.

What happens after the IPO? 

Assuming we proceed with the IPO, what is now 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi Ltd will become a public company that trades its shares on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange. 

The 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色 will remain a significant shareholder and we will continue to share the 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi brand. We will be involved in decision making on the same basis as all other shareholders. Our goal will be to support the company to be as successful as possible in its mission to make 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 accessible and affordable for everybody.

The 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色 will use any funds that we raise through the sale of shares at the IPO — or subsequently — to advance our ambitious global strategy to enable every young person to realise their full potential through the power of 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 and digital technologies.

Partnership will continue to be at the heart of our strategy and we will work closely with businesses, 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色s, and governments to ensure that our work reaches as many teachers and young people as possible. Our ambition is that around 50% of our activities will be funded from the endowment and 50% through partnerships and donations, enabling us to reach many more teachers and students by combining our resources and expertise with those of the many partners who share our mission.

Creating a lasting legacy 

Whatever happens with the IPO, 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi has already had a huge impact on the world. It’s been an enormous privilege to be part of the journey so far, and I am hugely excited about the potential of this next phase.

I want to pay tribute to all of our co-founders for setting us off on this great adventure, and particularly to Jack Lang, who very sadly passed away earlier this month. Jack made an exceptional and unique contribution to the 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi story, and he deserves to go down in history as one of the most significant figures in 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 education in the UK. I know he would have shared my excitement about this next chapter in the 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi story. 

With the pace of technological advances in fields like AI, our mission has never been more vital. We have the potential to positively impact the lives of tens of millions of young people who might otherwise miss out on the opportunity to change the world for the better through technology.

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Like many charities, an important part of our approach to achieving and measuring our impact is our theory of change. We are excited to launch a newly refreshed theory of change that reflects our mission and strategy to ensure that young people can realise their full potential through the power of 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 and digital technologies.

What is a theory of change?

A theory of change describes the difference an organisation aims to make in the world, the actions it takes to achieve this, and the underlying assumptions about how its actions will create change.

It’s like a good cake recipe. It describes the ingredients and tools that are required, how these are combined, and what the results should be. But a theory of change goes further: it also addresses why you need the cake in the first place, and the reasons why the recipe will produce such a good cake if you follow it correctly!

What is the change we want to make?

Our theory of change begins with a statement of the problem that needs solving: too many young people are missing out on the enormous opportunities from digital technologies, and access to opportunities to learn depends too much on who you are and where you were born.

We want to see a world where young people can take advantage of the opportunities that computers and digital technologies offer to transform their own lives and communities, to contribute to society, and to help address the world’s challenges.

To help us empower young people to do this, we have identified three broad sets of outcomes that we should target, measure, and hold ourselves accountable for. These map roughly to the COM-B model of behaviour change. This model suggests that for change to be achieved, people need a combination of capabilities, opportunities, and motivation.

Our identified outcomes are that we support young people to:

1. Build knowledge and skills in 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情
2. Understand the opportunities and risks associated with new technologies
3. Develop the mindsets to confidently engage with technological change

How do we make a difference?

We work at multiple levels throughout education systems and society, which together will achieve deep and long-lasting change for young people. We design learning 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色s and initiatives that are fun and engaging, including hundreds of free coding and 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 projects, the Coolest Projects showcase for young tech creators, and the European Astro Pi Challenge, which gives young people the chance to run their computer programs in space.

We also support teachers, youth workers, volunteers, and parents to develop their skills and knowledge, and equip them to inspire young people and help them learn. For example, The 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色 provides a complete bank of free lesson plans and other resources, and 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色 AI is our educational programme that includes everything teachers need to deliver lessons on artificial intelligence and machine learning in secondary schools.

Finally, we aim to elevate the state of 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 education globally by advocating for policy and systems change, and undertaking our own original 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 to deepen our understanding of how young people learn about 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情.

How will we use our theory of change?

Our theory of change is an important part of our approach to evaluating the impact of our resources and programmes, and it informs all our monitoring and evaluation plans. These plans identify the questions we want to answer, key metrics to monitor, and the data sources we use to understand the impact we’re having and to gather feedback to improve our impact in future.

The theory of change also informs a shared outcomes framework that we are applying consistently across all of our products. This framework supports planning and helps keep us focused as we consider new opportunities to further our mission.

A final role our theory of change plays is to help communicate our mission to other stakeholders, and explain how we can work with our partners and communities to achieve change.

You can read our new theory of change here and if you have any questions or feedback on it, please do get in touch.

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In our strategy we also identify one of our values as being ‘focussed on impact’. This means that we are committed to learning from the best available evidence, and to being rigorous and transparent about the difference we’re making.

Like all our values, our focus on impact infuses all of our work, and it is led by a dedicated impact team. This blog outlines four ways in which we put this value into practice in pursuit of our mission.

1. Do the right things

It doesn’t matter how fast you run, if you’re heading in the wrong direction, you’ll never get to your destination. We use data to prioritise our resources where we can make the biggest difference for young people.

For example, we use national statistics from the UK to assess how many of the Code Clubs and CoderDojos we support in the UK run in places where they can reach young people facing educational disadvantage, so that we can adopt an evidence-based approach to better serving these young people.

And we know many of the young people who face the greatest barriers to accessing 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 education and developing new skills and confidence live in countries with low- and middle-income economies. That’s why we are building new partnerships in India, Kenya, and South Africa and adapting our resources and programmes for the contexts of educators and learners living there.

2. Measure what matters

We’re really excited that we’ll soon be publishing an updated Theory of Change, which captures how we make an impact. This will be the 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色 for Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) plans for all of our initiatives, where we specify their goals and set down what kinds of data we will collect to make sure we have the measure of whether the initiatives are succeeding.

Strong M&E is equally important for our established programmes and our new pilot initiatives. Code Club, the worldwide network of free, after-school coding clubs for 9- to 13-year-olds we support, has been growing for more than 10 years. Durham University’s Evidence Centre for Education is currently conducting an independent evaluation of UK-based Code Clubs to help us understand how to better support Code Club volunteers and learners around the world. We ourselves recently evaluated the pilot of a new programme we designed in partnership with Amala Education to deliver a vocational skills course for displaced learners aged 16 to 25 in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya.

3. Keep getting better

Data is only useful if it’s translated into insights that are acted upon. We use the findings from evaluations to inform the design and continual improvement of all our initiatives.

For example, the evaluation of our pilot vocational skills training in Kakuma refugee camp provided insights that have helped us adapt the programme for a second cohort of young people. The same was true of the M&E insights we gained from our partnership with Mo Schools in Odisha, India, where we have provided training and support to 1075 teachers to establish Code Clubs. Informed by survey data and informal feedback each step of the way, we are now gradually scaling up our support towards launching a more intensive 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 and coding programme in 2000 schools in Odisha this year.

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4. Tell people about it

We are proud of the difference we are making. We want everyone to hear about it and feel inspired to get involved in our vital mission for young people. Our annual reviews are packed full of statistics and overviews of the difference we’re making, and we’re creating a growing video series of unique stories from people in the community we support. Watch this space for news about our updated Theory of Change, our next annual review, and more blogs about our impact.

By doing these four things well, we can be confident that we are enabling young people to achieve their potential through the power of 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 and digital technologies.

If you share our passion for impact and think our mission is important, why not get involved today? You can:

• Try out our free learning resources for young people, or explore our free teaching resources
• Start volunteering at a Code Club or CoderDojo near you
• Support us through a donation

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As well as being able to learn about and purchase the full range of hardware products, on the new website you can download our latest software, find detailed technical documentation, connect with the community on the forums, and read the latest news about 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi technologies and how they’re being used to change the world. 

What’s changing at 光棍影院手机在线观看.org

This website (光棍影院手机在线观看.org) will continue to be the home for the 公天天吃我奶躁我的在线观看 and all of our educational initiatives to help young people learn about computers and how to create with digital technologies.

That includes online resources to help young people learn how to code, information about our networks of Code Clubs and CoderDojos, training and support for teachers and other educators, and access to the world’s leading-edge 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 into 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 education.

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Why the change?

When 光棍影院手机在线观看.org was first launched as a WordPress blog in 2011, we were talking about a low-cost, programmable computer that was being designed for education. 

Fast-forward a decade, and we are now speaking about an increasingly broad range of technology and education products and services to industry, hobbyists, educators, 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情ers, and young people. While there is lots of overlap between those communities and their interests, it is becoming increasingly difficult to address everyone’s needs on one website. So this change is really all about making life easier for you. 

We will continue to provide lots of links and connections between the two sites to make sure that you can easily find what you’re looking for. As ever, we’d love to hear your feedback in the comments below. 

Connect with us on our new social media channels

Alongside the changes to the websites, we’re also launching new social channels that are focused on the 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色’s educational initiatives. We look forward to seeing you there.

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So far in our series of community stories, we’ve collaborated with young people from the UK, India, and Romania who are getting creative with technology to change the world around them.

Our next community story comes from a highly regarded community member who has been connecting young people with opportunities to learn and create with technology throughout her career. A US-based educator with over twenty years of 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色, Yolanda Payne shares our mission to put 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 and digital making into the hands of people all over the world.

“The biggest reason I’m so invested in technology is because people invested in me.”

Yolanda Payne

Meet Yolanda

Yolanda Payne is an educator you might recognise from our online courses. Based in Atlanta, Georgia in the USA, she’s passionate about making technology accessible to all and helping young people become technology creators.

Yolanda says, “The biggest reason I’m so invested in technology is because people invested in me. They saw something that I was good at, showed me opportunities, and so in turn, that was my philosophy in teaching.” 

Yolanda got her first computer at a young age and was hooked instantly: it opened up many new opportunities and led her to choosing a career in education. She says, “The computer gives me the tools to be an artist, it gives me the tools to create things, and if it does that for me, then just imagine what it will do for kids!”

“If you give a teacher a 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Pi and show them these resources, they’re going to be hooked.”

Yolanda Payne

Yolanda has spent her entire professional life dedicated to education. She gained a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from Mississippi University for Women; a master’s degree in Instructional Technology from Mississippi State University; and Educational Specialist degrees from the University of Florida and the University of Georgia in 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色 and Instruction, and in Language and Literacy.

Throughout her twenty-one years as a classroom teacher and her time running Code Clubs, Yolanda found joy in supporting students who have multiple challenges or complex needs, and in seeing them thrive in the subject of computer science. Yolanda points out, “I worked with both students that were considered to be in special education and students that were gifted. And one of the biggest things that I saw that I don’t think people realise, especially about students in special education: they are used to solving problems. […] You’d be very surprised at how real-life problem-solving skills flow very easily into computer science.”

Yolanda now works as a 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 Associate at the Georgia Institute of Technology. We are tremendously thankful for her contributions as an educator and an advocate for technology and young people. 

Please join us in celebrating her story by sharing it on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook! 

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Over the last 18 months, we’ve been developing an all-new format for these educational projects, designed to better support young people who want to learn coding, whether at home or in a coding club, on their digital making journey.

Supporting learners to become independent tech creators

In the design process of the new project format, we combined:

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While designing the new format for our free projects, we found that, as well as support and opportunities to practise while acquiring new skills and knowledge, learners need a learning journey that lets them gradually develop and demonstrate increasing independence.

Therefore, each of our new learning paths is designed to scaffold learners’ success in the early stages, and then lets them build upon this learning by providing them with more open-ended tasks and inspirational ideas that learners can adapt or work from. Each learning path is made up of six projects, and the projects become less structured as learners progress along the path. This allows learners to practise their newly acquired skills and use their creativity and interests to make projects that matter to them. In this way, learners develop more and more independence, and when they reach the final project in the path, they are presented with a simple project brief. By this time they have the skills, practice, and confidence to meet this brief any way they choose!

The four new paths we’re sharing with you today focus on the Scratch language (including a physical 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 path!), with a Python and a web development path coming very soon, and even more learning content in development.

Our new path structure for learning coding and digital making

When a learner is ready to develop a new set of coding skills, they choose one of our new paths to embark on. Each path is made up of three different types of projects in a 3-2-1 structure:

• The first three Explore projects introduce learners to a set of skills and knowledge, and provide step-by-step instructions to help learners develop initial confidence. Throughout these projects, learners have lots of opportunity to personalise and tinker with what they’re creating.
• The next two Design projects are opportunities for learners to practise the skills they learned in the previous Explore projects, and to express themselves creatively. Learners are guided through creating their own version of a type of project (such as a musical instrument, an interactive pet, or a website to support a local event), and they are given code examples to choose, combine, and customise. No new skills are introduced in these projects, so that learners can focus on practising and on designing and creating a project based on their own preferences and interests.
• In the final one Invent project, learners focus on completing a project to meet a project brief for a particular audience. The project brief is written so that they can meet it using the skills they’ve learned by following the path up to this point. Learners are provided with reference material, but are free to decide which skills to use. They need to plan their project and decide on the order to carry out tasks.

As a result of working through a path, learners are empowered to make their own ideas and create solutions to situations they or their communities face, with increased independence. And in order to develop more skills, learners can work through more paths, giving them even more choice about what they create in the future.

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We’ve also introduced some new features to add interactivity, choice, and authenticity to each project in a path:

• Real-world info box-outs provide interesting and relevant facts about the skills and knowledge being taught.
• Design decision points allow learners to make choices about how their project looks and what it does, based on their preferences and interests.
• Debugging tips throughout each project give learners guidance for finding and fixing common coding mistakes.
• Project reflection steps solidify new knowledge and provide opportunities for mastery by letting learners revisit the important learnings from the project. Common misconceptions are highlighted, and learners are guided to the correct answer.
• At the start of each project, learners can interact with example creations from the community, and at the end of a project, they are encouraged to share what they’ve made. Thus, learners can find inspiration in the creations of their peers and receive constructive feedback on their own projects.
• An open-ended upgrade step at the end of each project offers inspiration for young people to give them ideas for ways in which they could continue to improve upon their project in the future.

Access the new free learning content now

You can discover our new paths on our projects site right now!

We’ll be adding more content regularly, including completely new Python programming and web development paths coming very soon!

For adults who want to help young people learn with the paths, whether at home or in a Code Club or CoderDojo, we’ve written a guide that helps you support your learners in the best way.

As always, we’d love to know what you think: here’s a feedback form for you to share comments you have about our new content!

For feedback specific to an individual project, you can use the feedback link in the footer of that project’s page as usual.

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In our first seminar we were beyond delighted to hear from Dr Mhairi Aitken, Ethics Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute. Mhairi is a sociologist whose 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 examines social and ethical dimensions of digital innovation, particularly relating to uses of data and AI. You can catch up on her full presentation and the Q&A with her in the video below.

Why we need AI ethics

The increased use of AI in society and industry is bringing some amazing benefits. In healthcare for example, AI can facilitate early diagnosis of life-threatening conditions and provide more accurate surgery through robotics. AI technology is also already being used in housing, financial services, social services, retail, and marketing. Concerns have been raised about the ethical implications of some aspects of these technologies, and Mhairi gave examples of a number of controversies to introduce us to the topic.

“Ethics considers not what we can do but rather what we should do — and what we should not do.”

Mhairi Aitken

One such controversy in England took place during the coronavirus pandemic, when an AI system was used to make decisions about school grades awarded to students. The system’s algorithm drew on grades awarded in previous years to other students of a school to upgrade or downgrade grades given by teachers; this was seen as deeply unfair and raised public consciousness of the real-life impact that AI decision-making systems can have.

Another high-profile controversy was caused by biased machine learning-based facial recognition systems and explored in Shalini Kantayya’s documentary Coded Bias. Such facial recognition systems have been shown to be much better at recognising a white male face than a black female one, demonstrating the inequitable impact of the technology.

What should AI be used for?

There is a clear need to consider both the positive and negative impacts of AI in society. Mhairi stressed that using AI effectively and ethically is not just about mitigating negative impacts but also about maximising benefits. She told us that bringing ethics into the discussion means that we start to move on from what AI applications can do to what they should and should not do. To outline how ethics can be applied to AI, Mhairi first outlined four key ethical principles:

• Beneficence (do good)
• Nonmaleficence (do no harm)
• Autonomy
• Justice

Mhairi shared a number of concrete questions that ethics raise about new technologies including AI: 

• How do we ensure the benefits of new technologies are 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色d equitably across society?
• Do AI systems lead to discriminatory practices and outcomes?
• Do new forms of data collection and monitoring threaten individuals’ privacy?
• Do new forms of monitoring lead to a Big Brother society?
• To what extent are individuals in control of the ways they interact with AI technologies or how these technologies impact their lives?
• How can we protect against unjust outcomes, ensuring AI technologies do not exacerbate existing inequalities or reinforce prejudices?
• How do we ensure diverse perspectives and interests are reflected in the design, development, and deployment of AI systems? 

Who gets to inform AI systems? The kangaroo metaphor

To mitigate negative impacts and maximise benefits of an AI system in practice, it’s crucial to consider the context in which the system is developed and used. Mhairi illustrated this point using the story of an autonomous vehicle, a self-driving car, developed in Sweden in 2017. It had been thoroughly safety-tested in the country, including tests of its ability to recognise wild animals that may cross its path, for example elk and moose. However, when the car was used in Australia, it was not able to recognise kangaroos that hopped into the road! Because the system had not been tested with kangaroos during its development, it did not know what they were. As a result, the self-driving car’s safety and reliability significantly decreased when it was taken out of the context in which it had been developed, jeopardising people and kangaroos.

Mhairi used the kangaroo example as a metaphor to illustrate ethical issues around AI: the creators of an AI system make certain assumptions about what an AI system needs to know and how it needs to operate; these assumptions always reflect the positions, perspectives, and biases of the people and organisations that develop and train the system. Therefore, AI creators need to include metaphorical ‘kangaroos’ in the design and development of an AI system to ensure that their perspectives inform the system. Mhairi highlighted children as an important group of ‘kangaroos’. 

AI in children’s lives

AI may have far-reaching consequences in children’s lives, where it’s being used for decision-making around access to resources and support. Mhairi explained the impact that AI systems are already having on young people’s lives through these systems’ deployment in children’s education, in apps that children use, and in children’s lives as consumers.

Children can be taught not only that AI impacts their lives, but also that it can get things wrong and that it reflects human interests and biases. However, Mhairi was keen to emphasise that we need to find out what children know and want to know before we make assumptions about what they should be taught. Moreover, engaging children in discussions about AI is not only about them learning about AI, it’s also about ethical practice: what can people making decisions about AI learn from children by listening to their views and perspectives?

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UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, has expressed concerns about the impact of new AI technologies used on children and young people. They have developed the UNICEF Requirements for Child-Centred AI.

Together with UNICEF, Mhairi and her colleagues working on the Ethics Theme in the Public Policy Programme at The Alan Turing Institute are engaged in new 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 to pilot UNICEF’s Child-Centred Requirements for AI, and to examine how these impact public sector uses of AI. A key aspect of this 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 is to hear from children themselves and to develop approaches to engage children to inform future ethical practices relating to AI in the public sector. The 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情ers hope to find out how we can best engage children and ensure that their voices are at the heart of the discussion about AI and ethics.

We all learned a tremendous amount from Mhairi and her work on this important topic. After her presentation, we had a lively discussion where many of the participants relayed the conversations they had had about AI ethics and shared their own concerns and 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色s and many links to resources. The Q&A with Mhairi is included in the video recording.

What we love about our 欧洲vodafonewifi18大豆行情 seminars is that everyone attending can share their thoughts, and as a result we learn so much from attendees as well as from our speakers!

It’s impossible to cover more than a tiny fraction of the seminar here, so I do urge you to take the time to watch the seminar recording. You can also catch up on our previous seminars through our blogs and videos.

Join our next seminar

We have six more seminars in our free series on AI, machine learning, and data science education, taking place every first Tuesday of the month. At our next seminar on Tuesday 5 October at 17:00–18:30 BST / 12:00–13:30 EDT / 9:00–10:30 PDT / 18:00–19:30 CEST, we will welcome Professor Carsten Schulte, Yannik Fleischer, and Lukas Höper from the University of Paderborn, Germany, who will be presenting on the topic of teaching AI and machine learning (ML) from a data-centric perspective (find out more here). Their talk will raise the questions of whether and how AI and ML should be taught differently from other themes in the computer science 免费夜里18款禁用b站软粉色 at school.

Sign up now and we’ll send you the link to join on the day of the seminar — don’t forget to put the date in your diary.

I look forward to meeting you there!

In the meantime, we’re offering a brand-new, free online course that introduces machine learning with a practical focus — ideal for educators and anyone interested in exploring AI technology for the first time.

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