During the 2015 – 2016 school year, I organized and managed my child’s school computer club. I trained as a teacher, so I was not intimidated by the kids. On the contrary, I found the experience fun and stimulating, especially considering there was no stress of exams or grades.
During the 2015 – 2016 school year, I organized and managed my child's school computer club. I trained as a teacher, so I was not intimidated by the kids. On the contrary, I found the experience fun and stimulating, especially considering there was no stress of exams or grades.
I decided we would go beyond learning to code and move onto "making". I had the brainwave that building and programming robots would be more interesting than just coding some lines on a computer screen.
As this was a club and not a class, we decided the children themselves would choose the projects and what they would build. The learning experience would come from researching and figuring out how to make their inventions work.
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I am new in the seat of editor-in-chief here at RPG, but I’ve been hanging around in the wings for some time now.
My dad was a maker. He was a professional designer and a classically trained painter. Back then, he was designing and building window displays for Oxford Street shops. One of his things were paper sculptures. He made galleons, desert islands, trees, and fairy tale characters of exquisite detail out of carefully cut and folded snow-white sheets of fine card.
The fourth incarnation of the Pi and More conference brought Raspberry Pi fans together for a day of lectures, workshops, ideas, and experiences.
Despite its popularity elsewhere, the Raspberry Pi is first and foremost an educational tool designed with primary and secondary students in mind. We look at how teachers can make the Pi fulfill this role with the help of the Sugar Educational Desktop and turtle graphics.
Pi2Go-Lite is a new fully integrated robot kit that makes it easy to get into robotics with the Raspberry Pi. We speak to its creator about how it works, then build our own autonomous line-following robot.
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