Christian Tsu-Raun has written a lovely piece at scholastic.com about what to put in your work area for your Maker activities. He describes a great work desk and explains all about what you need to fill it with to get…
Category: Education
A portable classroom on the #RaspberryPi with edX
Open-source online learning platform edX can now be run on the Raspberry Pi. Started by MIT & Harvard, the development team has released a new distro image that you can download and install on an SD card. It is at…
Report from the #RaspberryPi Bake Off – 12th December 2013
Dorothy Molloy of Climbing Turn has blogged about her involvement as an Ambassador at the recent Raspberry Pi Bake Off held at North Herts College. She describes the number of kids they had involved and the tasks they carried out.…
Play, Hack & Share method for teaching programming
Alan O’Donohoe (@teknoteacher) has written a blog post in which he shares one of his favourite methods for teaching programming. Called “Play, Hack & Share”, the method works best with pairs of young programmers (Navigator & Driver) who look at…
Google & RPi Foundation #RaspberryPi giveaway for 2000 kids
In support of “Hour of Code” as part of Computer Science Education Week, the Foundation is giving away 2000 Google Pis to schools and individual kids. This is a competition and involves a) running an Hour of Code workshop before…
Wolfram Language and Mathematica comes to the #RaspberryPi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced a partnership with Wolfram Research to include Mathematica and the Wolfram language in future images of the Raspbian operating system. It’s intended that this will make the Pi a “first-class platform for teaching computer-based…
#RaspberryPi Bake Off event for Hertfordshire schools
A bunch of STEM Ambassadors and teachers from Richard Hale School in Stevenage are running a set of Raspberry Pi workshops for kids and teachers on Thursday, 12th December from 9am-3.30pm. This is a brilliant opportunity to get started with…
Cross-Africa #RaspberryPi journey reaches Cairo
Fred and Ernest Lotter have committed themselves to driving across Europe and Africa to reach their home country of South Africa. Along the way they are teaching two-day workshops centred around the Raspberry Pi, and in particular creating an Embedded…
Amy Mather and Clive Beale talk about the #RaspberryPi at Wired Next Gen
Photo credit: Nate Lanxon This is a fantastic video of Amy and Clive talking at the recent Wired Next Generation conference. They talk about what the Raspberry Pi is and what you can do with it. I particularly liked the…
Geek Gurl shares experience of running #RaspberryPi workshops for youngsters
Carrie Anne Philbin has written a blog post her on experience running Pi workshops in libraries. Great story. Read it here