@article{austin2020the,
author = {Austin, Jonny and Baker, Howard and Ball, Thomas and Devine, James and Finney, Joe and de Halleux, Peli and Hodges, Steve and Moskal, Michal and Stockdale, Gareth},
title = {The BBC micro:bit: from the U.K. to the world},
year = {2020},
month = {February},
abstract = {The micro:bit is a small programmable and embeddable computer designed, developed, and deployed by the BBC and 29 project partners to approximately 800,000 U.K. Year 7 (11/12-year-old) school children in 2015–2016. Referring back to its work with the BBC Micro, the BBC described the micro:bit as its “most ambitious education initiative in 30 years, with an ambition to inspire digital creativity and develop a new generation of tech pioneers.”

Embracing a constructionist approach to computing education, the micro:bit has moved from a local educational experiment in the U.K. to a global effort driven by the Micro:bit Educational Foundation (microbit.org), a nonprofit organization established in September 2016. There are now over four million micro:bits in the market in over 60 countries with many hardware, content, and education partners participating.},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/the-bbc-microbit-from-the-u-k-to-the-world/},
journal = {Communications of the ACM},
volume = {63},
number = {3},
}