Carrie Anne Philbin is Director of Educator Support at the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the author of ‚Adventures in Raspberry Pi’. Read posts by Carrie Anne Philbin.
Have you got back-to-school blues after yesterday’s Carrie Anne Philbin MBE – 2nd
Unveiling a fresh look and feel for Code Club, along with a new ambition to inspire 10 million more young people to get creative with technology over the next decade.
Independent evaluations have demonstrated that attending a Code Club helps young
The educators who create our free online courses talk about the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s learning experiences for computing educators.
We’ve created over 650 educational course videos More than 234,000 learners have
Liz: Andrew Mulholland is a first-year undergraduate student at Queen’s College Belfast, and the overall winner of 2014’s Talk Talk Digital Hero award. We’ve known him for a few years (he did work experience with us this summer – he created the Grandpa Scarer learning resource for us with Matt Timmons-Brown). Andrew’s been setting up events to introduce…
At the Jam we also have all the previous months’ activities printed out, so that
**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.…
love can demonstrate experience in using technology in the classroom – does not have
Chris Roffey, creator of the excellent Coding Club books, got in touch to tell us about the 2013 UK Beaver Computing Competition. He says: “This November there is the chance for all school students to enter the UK’s first Beaver Competition for FREE! I think it is a great opportunity for all groups of students…
opportunity for all groups of students to find out, in an enjoyable way, whether they have
If you’re at BETT this week, come over to Stand B240 to meet one of the Robs, Clive and a bunch of impaled Jelly Babies. The Department for Education (DfE) has just announced that Computer Science is to be added to the new English Baccalaureate or EBacc. The EBacc is a series of new qualifications…
OCR have been running theirs since 2010.
Why are computing systems at the heart of our computing curriculum design? Senior Learning Manager Sway Grantham explains in Hello World issue 20.
Computing topic, develop curriculum content, or even write curriculum policy, you have
Local specialists discuss key issues in supporting young people in low-income areas in the UK, USA, and Guyana with computing education.
To support young people at risk of educational disadvantage because they don’t have
Mark Guzdial recently joined us to give a talk about his work on integrating computer science into a range of school subjects using TSP languages.
Mark’s overarching thesis is that if we want everyone to have some exposure to CS
