On 29/01/13 18:21, Terry Coles wrote:
Here's some good news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21243825.
Google giving 15,000 Raspberry Pis to UK Schools through the Raspberry Pi
Foundation.
This is doing my head in.
What age group at School are they intending to give these to? Below the
article is a link to computing in primary schools.
Are they just giving the R-Pi? or are they giving a whole kit to enable
the school to use them - PSU, Screen, Keyboard & Mouse, USB Hub etc?
What kind of teaching are they going to do? Playing with Scratch, or
doing it properly by teaching them logic and flowcharting first, then
basics of using a language, and programme structure etc, or what?
I see that one of the outfits mentioned in the article "six educational
partners, including Code Club, Computing at School, Generating Genius
and Coderdojo" --> "CoderDojo also puts a strong emphasis on open
source and free software."
Do the others use Open Source, or is it completely inconsistent?
Note - Plenty of 'coderdojos' in Ireland, 16 in the UK, None in Dorset.
Not a lot to be going on with.
Apologies for my rant on this.
Peter
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