US-based Raspberry Pi Certified Educator Amanda Haughs has been very busy developing resources involving the Raspberry Pi. Her latest set of resources are a series of Task Cards that aim to get children into physical computing using Scratch. The cards, which…
Spencer Organ is organising a Raspberry Jam at his school on 22nd August from 10am-3pm. The venue is KESH Academy in Birmingham (B26 2RZ) and it’s aim is to be fun for all the family. It will include workshops involving…
When you’re ready to move from Scratch to Python, this transition can be quite painful. Suddenly, you’re faced with a pure-text programming interface and even with IDEs like Thonny helping you to get things going, you’re still left with the fundamental…
Recently, Tim Richardson and I were lucky enough to be invited into two schools to teach pupils about the Raspberry Pi. Participants for the first one were all year 8s (12-13 year olds) whilst the second school presented us with…
Tim Richardson and I are pleased to announce that there are brand new versions of the CamJam EduKit 1 worksheets now available from the CamJam website. In addition to the classic RPi.GPIO versions being revised to feature 40-pin Pis and various small typographical…
Gareth, over at 4tronix, has been busy of late, developing the Playground system. Playground is an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi, Crumble and micro:bit that allows you to quickly and easily connect up various inputs and outputs using cables…
London-based company pi-top has scored a major success this week as its pi-topOS has been endorsed by leading examination-awarding body OCR (Oxford, Cambridge and RSA). pi-top has successfully adapted the standard Raspbian operating system by adding a simplified desktop and additional…
Teacher Hannah Mills from Peterborough-based Marshfields School is running a Just Giving campaign to raise £1000. The £1000 will be used to purchase pi-topCEEDs to be used in class and after school to increase accessibility to physical computing. Marshfields is a…
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced that they are to run more free Picademies for educators in the USA this Spring. The eight courses will be run in Rhode Island, California, Michigan and Idaho, two days per course, and at…
Just a quick reminder that the two Raspberry Pi/Future Learn online courses are available as of today. Teaching Physical Computing with Raspberry Pi and Python Teaching Programming in Primary Schools – particularly for existing primary school teachers looking to broaden their…
