With this week’s Manchester Jamboree and next May’s Cambridge Raspberry Jam both focussing on the Raspberry Pi’s potential within education, I have invited Nevil Hunt from Innovations in Education to write for me a weekly series of blog posts describing…
Category: Education
Develop Java Apps using the #RaspberryPi – new MOOC from Oracle
A new Massive Open Online Course has been released by Oracle, and it’s FREE. In this course, you will write Java Embedded applications that: Read input data from switches and drive LED’s using the GPIO interface Read temperature and barometric…
Code Club announces new CPD initiative for schools & teachers
Code Club, the not-for-profit organisation that started up 100s of school learn-to-program clubs, has announced a new initiative Code Club Pro which will launch in April. With the support of Google and CAS (Computing at Schools), Code Club Pro will be a…
Complete #RaspberryPi course from Intertech
Training company Intertech has been very generous and published the complete set of course materials from their Complete Raspberry Pi Training class. Here are the segments: Set-up the Pi, install the operating system and get the training files onto the…
Help fund a wearable technology workshop for Girl Guides
This isn’t strictly Pi-related, but it is to do with electronics and education so I thought I’d blog about it anyway! Pi enthusiast (and Babbage the Bear-hugger) and STEM Ambassador Charlotte Godley wants to run an educational workshop for her…
Starting a Code Club – what happens?
Author Sean McManus has set himself the task this year of starting up a Code Club in a local junior school. You can read about his experience with the initial steps here. You can find out more about the Code…
Playing sounds on the #RaspberryPi
David Whale’s Raspberry Pi club is doing great things. This time, he and his young members played around with sound on the Pi. This involved working out a solution to an audio problem caused by an HDMI-to-VGA adaptor – very…
#RaspberryPi workshop in Cambridge with the Raspberry Pi Guy (23rd Feb)
Matthew Timmons-Brown (aka The Raspberry Pi Guy) has is running a 4-hour workshop (split into two sessions) on Sunday 23rd February at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge. The workshop is for people who have not long got their…
Are teachers ready for the coding revolution? Can the #RaspberryPi help?
Rory Cellan-Jones, the BBC’s technology correspondent, has written a great article about his time at BETT, the annual educational technology fair in London this week. He’s interviewed several people, including education secretary Michael Gove (who is either the saviour of…
New blog follows a beginner with his #RaspberryPi
Matt Gaunt, a Chrome developer at Google, has just got his Raspberry Pi and he’s decided to blog about his experiences. His first tasks? Setting up wi-fi and updating the firmware. Read it here