Findings from our study of pair programming for teaching Computing to pupils aged 8-11, part of our Gender Balance in Computing research programme.
It may be that there is no causal link between using the pair programming approach
Ben here: I’m on the education team at the Raspberry Pi Foundation in Cambridge, UK. As part of our outreach work I’m visiting the USA next month, where I could be visiting your school or hackspace. Calling all Pi-thusiasts! I’m visiting in August and if you’d like me to visit your hackspace, speak at your school or…
Charlotte 18th July 2014, 6:05 pm No, incorrectly is the correct description :P
Yesterday, GitHub announced a new initiative to help students, teachers and schools use GitHub for collaboration and sharing to provide a better learning experience for all: GitHub Education. If you don’t already know, GitHub is a software projects hosting service – it’s a kind of social networking site for code projects. You use version control…
:P Alex Eames (RasPi.TV) 11th February 2014, 10:15 pm I guess if you’re writing
Please note this competition is now closed. You met Lance Howarth, the CEO of the Raspberry Pi Foundation (this means he heads up our charitable giving), when he joined us earlier in the autumn. Today Lance has some news for you – and a very silly hat. Lance says: Ho Ho Ho! Here at Pi…
You’ll receive Google Pi kits, which include a cased Model B Raspberry Pi, an SD
Back in February Dave Honess blogged about our Weather Station Project for schools. Here’s what we’ve been up to since. The main news is that we have selected the 1000 schools worldwide who will be receiving the kit and the hardware side is done, dusted and ready to go. Here’s what the lucky schools will…
so that it can be positioned away from the main components if required – see the link
**Update 28 March: Entries are now closed. Thanks to everyone who applied, you’ll be hearing from us very soon.** I am very pleased to announce the first ever Raspberry Pi Academy for Educators! The Raspberry Picademy will be a free professional development experience for primary and secondary teachers, initially for those here in the UK.…
Manley 17th March 2014, 3:56 pm OK, I’m pretty sure I properly encapsulated the link
I’m sure a few of you are wondering why we’re not screaming about this from the rooftops, right? Okay: stand back, here we go. To quote the Portal space core: “SPAAAAAAAAAAACE!!!!!” Back in March 2014 Eben sent a casual email around the office asking if anyone wanted to join him at a meeting between the…
It was agreed that it would be a B+ HAT that could be mass produced and made widely
Dave: We’re really happy to announce a new project in partnership with British ESA Astronaut Tim Peake, UK Space and the European Space Agency: we’re sending Raspberry Pis to the International Space Station! Read on to find out how to get your code running on them… Leading UK space organisations have joined forces with British…
and Raspberry Pi are developing a comprehensive suite of teaching resources to link
Today’s been a bit unlike most Tuesdays at the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Today we’re the recipients of a very generous grant from Google Giving, which will provide 15,000 Raspberry Pi Model Bs for schoolkids around the UK. Google’s Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt, has just been to visit Cambridge, and he and Eben have been teaching…
:P Andrew Sindle-Mouat 29th January 2013, 4:17 pm missed off the link: http:/
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…
:P (I know, I know, it falls under “PC” in the generic sense; but a Mac is also
