If you visited us at the Bett Show in January , or came to Picademy in October or February half term, then you will recognise James Robinson as one of our education team volunteers. He is a well-established member of the Computing At School community, as both a CAS Master Teacher and CAS Hub Leader for Cambridge. He is also a Raspberry Pi Certified Educator and a frequent attendee of Cambridge Raspberry Jams
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Welcome James to our Education Team
Education Week News (blog) Tiny Raspberry Pi Computer Hits Big Sales Milestone Education Week News (blog) While we at Education Week are great fans of flaky crust and fruit filling, that's not what we're talking about here.
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Tiny Raspberry Pi Computer Hits Big Sales Milestone – Education Week News (blog)
Education Week News (blog) Raspberry Pi , Used to Teach Students Coding, Hits 5 Million Sales Education Week News (blog) While we at Education Week are great fans of flaky crust and fruit filling, that's not what we're talking about here. Raspberry Pi , if you haven't heard, is a $25 to $35 single-board computer that's the size of a credit card. It plugs into a keyboard ..
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Raspberry Pi, Used to Teach Students Coding, Hits 5 Million Sales – Education Week News (blog)
Lifehacker UK Raspberry Pi 2 vs Raspberry Pi B+: Which Should I Buy?
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Raspberry Pi 2 vs Raspberry Pi B+: Which Should I Buy? – Lifehacker UK
Last week, checking out posts people had made on our Facebook page and the projects they were telling us about, one in particular caught my attention. Sarah Roman , a high school English teacher from New Jersey, had written: Our English class is going to be using the Raspberry Pi in order to build book-based video games, incorporating Scratch, Sonic Pi, and Python. The students are incredibly excited […] There was a link to an Indiegogo campaign ; we love to see Raspberry Pi used creatively outside of computing lessons, so I clicked on it
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Teaching literature with Raspberry Pi
Tech companies including Google, O2 and Raspberry Pi will support coding … The Next Web In a smaller project, Our Lady's Catholic High School in Preston will work with the Raspberry Pi Foundation to support other schools with computer lessons. The Department for Education is offering £3.6 million in matched funding to support the new ..
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Tech companies including Google, O2 and Raspberry Pi will support coding … – The Next Web
On Wednesday 21st January 2015, the ExCeL in London opens its doors to the world’s leading educational technology show. As well as being a trade show, BETT provides an opportunity for attendees to hear world-famous speakers like education visionary Sir Ken Robinson and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales talk; to meet like-minded teachers, academics and technicians to share good practice; to attend free training sessions; and to find out more about what is happening in the world of ed-tech. For the first time, our entire education team will be on hand, in our own curated space to answer questions, run Picademy -style workshops, and share our passion for Raspberry Pi in education.
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Meet the Education Team at the BETT Show 2015
Hundreds of thousands of displaced Syrian children in Lebanon still have no schools. UNICEF innovator James Cranwell-Ward became interested in low-cost technology that could help deliver education for these vulnerable children; he developed an all-in-one Raspberry Pi-based computer system that can be used for programming and electronics as well as learning across a broader curriculum, and in October, refugees aged 10 to 16 attended their first Raspberry Pi class. One student is 11-year-old Zeinab Al Jusuf: You might recognise those screens; they’re a specially developed UNICEF version of Alex Eames’ HDMIPi screen, and Alex wrote about them for us back in May when this project was in the planning stages
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Non-formal learning for Syrian refugees
A few weeks ago Dave and I ran a workshop at the Hub Construction Skills Centre in Stepney Green. It was great: the young people were engaged, learned some basic computing skills and saw why it’s important to know how computers work.
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Training at Barnardo’s Hub Construction Skills Centre
In my former life as a Computing and ICT teacher and even before that as an ICT Technician, I always looked forward to the Bett Show in London. The Bett Show is the world’s leading learning technology event. Imagine a trade show meets teachers conference and you might have some idea of what it is like
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Join us at the Bett Show 2015