Raspberry Pi Certified Educator Sway Grantham has written another blog post in her excellent series on using the Pi in the classroom. This time she explores the way in which the Pi can be used, including her ideas on what…
Category: Education
UNICEF to use #RaspberryPi and HDMIPi for refugee camps
UNICEF have teamed up with Alex Eames, Cyntech and Pimoroni to take the Raspberry Pi into refugee camps in Lebanon. I won’t say more as I believe that everyone should read the full piece over on the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s…
Educating with the #RaspberryPi at Maker Faire
Some of the Raspberry Pi Foundation team were out in San Francisco this past week at Maker Faire. MAKE interviewed Clive Beale about the Pi and recent developments with their education effort.
School #RaspberryPi high altitude ballooning project needs help
James Robinson from Computing at School, who recently spoke at CamJam’s Focus on Education, is currently seeking help for a schools-based project he’s trying to get off the ground – in a very literal sense. He is hoping to launch a…
Putting the #RaspberryPi into the classroom
Just wanted to quickly share this with you! Sway Grantham, one of the Raspberry Pi Certified Educators, has done an absolutely fantastic post over on her blog about her first-hand experiences with putting the Pi in the classroom. It deals with…
#RaspberryPi CPD in North Wales
Picademy graduate, and therefore a Raspberry Pi Certified Educator, Allen Heard is organising 3 separate days of CPD (known as CPiD) in Conwy, North Wales. The dates are 16th, 18th and 20th June and there are limited spaces available. More…
#RaspberryPi brings hope to India’s visually impaired with a Braille robot
A team of computer science students from BITS Pilani‘s Goa campus, led by Sanskriti Dawle and Aman Srivastava, wanted to help visually impaired people in India by teaching them Braille. However, most Braille teaching machines cost in excess of £4000. So,…
Seven Segments of #RaspberryPi in the Classroom (part 9 – Final part!)
This is the final part of the Seven Segments of Pi series we’ve been running over the past few weeks. A massive Thank You! to Nevil Hunt for taking the time to share his adventures! Part 9 – Have the…
New Picademy dates announced for teachers who want to learn more about the #RaspberryPi
Following April’s successful first Picademy, the Raspberry Pi Foundation have announced two further pairs of dates. They are: 16th-17th June and 14th-15th July Applications are now being sought by the Foundation and you are encouraged to make yours here. More…
Seven Segments of Pi (Part 8)
Part 8 – Count to 10 and Figure Eight My Pi! Last week I talked about the technical and practical challenges of running Raspberry Pi Workshops in schools. This week it’s back to the fun of writing software! It’s about…