A very short, but very important post today (I’d write more, but I have to hop on a plane). As you’ll know if you’re a regular reader, we’ve been supporting the exam board OCR in their production of Cambridge GCSE Computing , a Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) for kids and teachers – and everybody else – which is structured around their highly regarded Computing GCSE.
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OCR MOOC – new materials now available
Run by: The National Museum of Computing BBC News Are you looking for new ways to have fun on a Raspberry Pi ? This session is designed mainly for 10 – 13 year old girls, but anyone can come along and have a go. You will use a programming language called Ruby and an application called Sonic Pi to ..
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Run by: The National Museum of Computing – BBC News
We get a lot of emails saying: “Why aren’t you working on any schools stuff? We want to see materials!” The answer, up until now, has always been: “We’re working on it!” Here’s a sneak preview of what we’ve been doing. Working with OCR and Cambridge University Press, we’ve been producing a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) based around the GCSE Computing syllabus
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A preview of the new Cambridge GCSE Computing Online!
IT PRO Raspberry Pi and Lego cloud cooked up by Glasgow University IT PRO The undertaking, dubbed the Raspberry Pi Cloud project, was the brainchild of four lecturers at the University's School of Computing, Dr Dimitrios Pezaros, Dr Jeremy Singer, Dr Posco Tso and Dr David White.
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Raspberry Pi and Lego cloud cooked up by Glasgow University – IT PRO
15000 Raspberry Pi's heading to UK school children The H Raspberry Pi The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced that, thanks to a Google Giving grant, 15,000 Model B Raspberry Pi computers will be given to UK school children. The foundation will be working with Google, CoderDojo, Code Club, Computing at …
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Google Gives Children 15000 Raspberry Pi Computers ElectronicsWeekly.com (blog) Google and Raspberry Pi are working with Code Club, Computing at School, Generating Genius and Coderdojo to distribute the Raspberry Pi computers to schools around the UK . “Britain's innovators and entrepreneurs have changed the world – the …
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IT PRO Raspberry Pi vs Intel NUC: Need to Know IT PRO Intel’s Next Unit of Computing (NUC) brings X86 processing power in its smallest form factor yet and IT Pro looks at how the NUC compares to the Raspberry Pi , which uses an ARM-based SoC design. This isn’t a traditional head-to-head. We didn’t run the ..
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Raspberry Pi vs Intel NUC: Need to Know – IT PRO
Peter Onion, a volunteer at The National Museum of Computing hosted a Raspberry Jam at the museum on Sunday 19th August. Mark Wilson has written a blogpost here for you to read all about it.
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MiltonKeynes #RaspberryJam 19.08.12