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New online training courses: your questions answered

Train with Raspberry Pi anywhere in the world We recently created two free online CPD training courses that are available to anyone, anywhere in the world. The courses will run alongside our current live training offerings, Picademy and Skycademy , and are facilitated by FutureLearn , a leading platform for online educational training.

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5 great Raspberry Pi projects for the classroom – opensource.com

opensource.com 5 great Raspberry Pi projects for the classroom opensource.com Minecraft is the favorite game of pretty much every teenager in the world—and it's one of the most creative games ever to capture the attention of young people. The version that comes with every Raspberry Pi is not only a creative thinking building …

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Illinois Teachers Learn To Use Raspberry Pi in the Classroom – T.H.E. Journal

T.H.E. Journal Illinois Teachers Learn To Use Raspberry Pi in the Classroom T.H.E. Journal The full-day workshops are intended to help high school teachers become more familiar with the Raspberry Pi technology in order to use it in their own classrooms

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Minecraft Pi recipe cards to download and keep

We think Craig Richardson’s brilliant. His Python Programming for Raspberry Pi book (available as a free download) remains one of the very best tools for stealthily teaching rigorous and useful computing concepts and programming tricks to kids that we’ve seen.

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Timelapse tutorial from Carrie Anne’s Geek Gurl Diaries

Even though Carrie Anne Philbin is working here at Pi Towers now, she’s still carrying on with the Geek Gurl Diaries YouTube channel that she set up before she joined us – for which we’re all profoundly grateful, because her videos are some of the best tutorials we’ve seen.

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Giveaway: Win a Raspberry Pi Computer From Classroom Battles! – Crave Online

Crave Online Giveaway: Win a Raspberry Pi Computer From Classroom Battles! Crave Online Irish/French Electronic outfit Classroom Battles has teamed up with CraveOnline for a uniquely fitting and undeniably awesome Raspberry Pi computer giveaway, to celebrate their new synth-pop EP, This Week's Question. Pairing live instrumentation with

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How an open-source computer kit for kids based on Raspberry Pi is taking over … – GigaOM

How an open-source computer kit for kids based on Raspberry Pi is taking over … GigaOM When the Raspberry Pi was developed, founder Eben Upton envisioned that the low-cost computer would do its finest work in the classroom, teaching kids about computing. But as more units sold, Raspberry Pi developed a strong, distinctive niche among

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Sonic Pi – a free music and computing resource for teachers, and for the rest of us

Carrie Anne Philbin, an absolutely inspirational CS teacher of the sort I wish had been around when I was a kid, has been doing a lot of work with the Pi in her lessons over the last year or so.

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PiRack connects multiple I/O boards to the Raspberry Pi – New Electronics

PiRack connects multiple I/O boards to the Raspberry Pi New Electronics “The PiRack is a great new addition to the Raspberry Pi family as it makes development more flexible and increases the connections the Pi can have with the outside world”, said Dr Robinson.

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