Drew Buddie is head of computing at the Royal Masonic School for Girls in Hertfordshire, UK. He’s been loaned a FUZE – the black-and-red keyboard/case for the Raspberry Pi. As I’ve previously said, I’ve got a lot of time for…
Category: Education
Seven Segments of Pi in the classroom (Part 5)
Another guest post from Nevil Hunt, creator of the Seven Segments of Pi Last week I talked about some of the practical barriers to using the Raspberry Pi in the Classroom with many teachers believing they needed to upgrade their…
Network boot a classroom full of #RaspberryPi with LTSP
Andrew Mulholland has developed a series of scripts called RaspberryPi-LTSP that allow you to boot the Raspberry Pi over a network. You start off by installing a minimal distro on the Pi’s SD card and then it goes and ‘gets’…
Seven Segments of Pi – All our monitors are VGA! (Part 4)
Last week I described how in June 2012 pupils had modified some Python Software on the Raspberry Pi to make the attached Seven Segment Display count to … …and I realised I had something which answered the pupil’s question… “Yes!…
Adventures in #RaspberryPi – review and a look at how well it works in practice
Alex Eames, over at RasPi.TV, has written an in-depth review of Carrie Anne Philbin’s book Adventures in Raspberry Pi. He’s also seen how it works in a practical way with his son. It’s a very revealing look at how well…
Free Professional Development course for teachers at the #RaspberryPi Foundation in Cambridge
This has just been announced on the Foundation blog, so I thought I’d promote it here as well as it’s a brilliant idea. The Raspberry Picademy will be a free professional development experience for UK-based primary and secondary teachers. Over the course of two…
Code Club opens up all it’s educational material
Code Club has previously kept a firm control over all it’s material, which meant you had to run a club before you could see the majority of it. Now, however, they’ve opened it all up to the public so, for…
New open hack competition for young people launched by Duke of York
The Duke of York and Young Rewired State have teamed up to launch the Peer to Peer Challenge. The five week competition aims to encourage more young people to discover and use programming and digital skills. There are 5 challenges to…
Seven Segments of Pi – From Raspberry Jamboree to CamJam (Part 2)
This week I was going to talk about VGA Adapters for the Raspberry Pi but about 10 days ago Mike emailed me to say “Are you going to the Manchester Jamboree?” I must admit at the time it wasn’t on…
New #RaspberryPi Foundation education website to launch at the end of March – some resources available now
The Hour of Code is an initiative to give children a flavour of programming in a single hour, with the hope that they’ll continue their exploration afterwards. The Foundation have just released a set of tutorials and resources to support…