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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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Illinois Teachers Get Raspberry Pi Training to Offer Computer Science Skills … – PR Newswire (press release)

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WATCH: Raspberry Pi Developer Speaks to NC EdTechies, Teachers – ExitEvent

WATCH: Raspberry Pi Developer Speaks to NC EdTechies, Teachers ExitEvent The size of a credit card, and with a price tag of $25, the computer born at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. is distributed and promoted by a British nonprofit organization called the Raspberry Pi Foundation. And last night, one of its key …

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Raspberry Jamboree 2014

Alan O’Donohoe writes: I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you, our Raspberry Jam community for supporting our OCR Raspberry Jamboree, the second annual convention to share the educational potential of the Raspberry Pi community. I’d also like to thank our sponsors OCR, Pimoroni, CPC, Cyntech, ModMyPi, Exa Education, MathWorks, BCS Manchester, MagPi Magazine, Raspberry Pi Geek and Ciseco. In particular I also wish to thank Lisa Mather for organising an excellent party and Dawn Hewitson particularly for support with the hack day.

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Google funds Raspberry Pi schools scheme – Irish Times

Google funds Raspberry Pi schools scheme Irish Times The Raspberry Pi runs versions of the Linux operating system and by default supports Python, which is seen as a good programming language for novices to tackle. A national coding competition for students and their teachers will also be run as part of ..

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Raspberry Pi in schools: discussion

This video of the closing panel discussion from last month’s Raspberry Jamboree has just appeared, and if you’re interested in applications of the Pi in schools, it’s well worth your time. If you want to find out more about the successful teaching of Computing in schools, this is a great place to start

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Americans! Want a visit from Eben at your hackspace next week?

Eben is doing some work on the west coast of the US until Wednesday, then he’s at a loose end before flying out to NYC on Saturday morning. He’s decided he’d like to fill those two days visiting bits of the country we’ve not been to before with Raspberry Pi, so we’re looking for folks at hackspaces who might want him to drop by to give a talk on one of those days.

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Raspberry Jam, Francophone-style

Here’s a guest post from Dr William Bell. Will works at CERN, and has been doing wonderful things with Raspberry Pi meetups and outreach  in Switzerland (you may have read the piece in the Guardian from a few months ago about what’s going on there with the Pi ; none of this would have happened without Will).

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