Our free resources are here for teachers, parents, and young people to keep computing lessons going while schools are closed.
Supporting teachers and pupils Schools and teachers all over the world have been
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
We’ve set up a working group to develop guidelines for creating culturally relevant learning resources for computing, funded by an ACM SIGCSE Special Project Award.
blog posts Archive RSS Over the last 20 years, researchers and educators have
Findings from our study of pair programming for teaching Computing to pupils aged 8-11, part of our Gender Balance in Computing research programme.
We have critically and carefully examined the findings, which show mixed outcomes
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…
You also have to consider the speed of devices outside the CPU.
CoderDojo turns seven today, so we take a look at what this amazing, global volunteer movement has already done to help young people learn to code.
of CoderDojo and its values of openness, inclusivity, creativity, and community have
Monitor a classic classroom chemistry experiment with a Raspberry Pi, by following these cross-curricular step-by-step instructions.
Figure 1 A: Reactor covered in black tape B: Drinking straw attached to the reactor
Today I fly to New York to start my Raspberry Pi USA Tour! Thanks to everyone who submitted a request for me to speak for them while on my USA Tour. I’ve adjusted my route according to where most of the requests were located, and I’ve been organising dates with those who contacted me. I’m…
video for Rory’s blog Which turned out to be a bandwidth hog They knew they’d have
Practical advice on how to write better multiple choice questions. Much more research is needed to determine what makes a truly helpful MCQs.
The case study illustrates the many things MCQ authors have to think about while
When I first joined the Raspberry Pi Foundation, over a year ago now, one of my first assignments was to build a weather station around the Raspberry Pi. Thanks to our friends at Oracle (the large US database company), the Foundation received a grant not only to design and build a Raspberry Pi weather station…
All we have to do now is connect the dots!
