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Rebooting the BBC Micro Revolution: Should Schools Teach AI Like We Learned to Code in the 80s?

13 March 2025 Nathan Clarke 0

In the 1980s, British schools created a generation of coders with the BBC Micro. Today, students use AI daily, but do they understand it? Should AI literacy be the next frontier in education, just as coding was decades ago? This article explores how the UK can lead in AI education.

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