A quick blip of a blog to say Happy Scratch Day! We’re huge fans of Scratch here at the Foundation. It was designed to teach young people how to program but it’s a great learning tool at any age: you can build your first program in minutes and pick up fundamental concepts very quickly. Whilst…
you’ve never tried Scratch before then today is the day to boot up your Pi and have
Record numbers of young people took part in the European Astro Pi Challenge to create code for the brand-new Astro Pi computers on the ISS.
excited to announce that 17,168 programs written by young people from 26 countries have
We’ve been working with the British Embassy in Tallinn over the last few months on a project to distribute Raspberry Pis to schools across Estonia
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In the latest issue of Hello World magazine, Shuchi Grover talks about the limits of constructionism and why programming can be a source of both joy and angst.
You have to be more intentional.
Here’s a massive CONGRATULATIONS to all GCSE students, and all other learners out there receiving results, from everyone of us at Raspberry Pi.
from everyone at the Raspberry Pi Foundation to all the students out there who have
Achieving flight status and progressing to Phase 3 of Mission Space Lab is a huge accomplishment for the 299 successful teams of young people.
announce that 299 teams of young people who entered Mission Space Lab this year have
In this lesson, learners will begin to explore the different tools that can be used in word processors to change the look of the text. Learners will use the Caps Lock key to add capital letters to their writing and will begin thinking about how to use this successfully. The learners will match simple descriptions with the key that they relate to. Finally, learners will begin exploring the different buttons available on the toolbar in more detail, and use these to change their own text.
on a computer I can type capital letters I can explain what the keys that I have
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 can have a look at what it’ll look like, and see some of the first videos and
You might remember that we mentioned last year that a team of UK teachers from Computing at School (CAS) was working on a Creative Commons licensed teaching manual for the Raspberry Pi, with recognition and encouragement from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. That manual is now available at the Pi Store (which you’ll find on your Raspberry…
I have the InDesign source files.
Dan Shilling from Parent Zone shares insights from teacher training, exploring how Experience AI is making a difference.
“Educators have been struggling to find resources and support to teach young people
