Hi Peter, > 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?
It's a $1M grant. A little more detail is at http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/29/google-giving-grant-worth-525000-to-fund-free-raspberry-pi-for-15000-u-k-schoolkids/ "These are $50 bundles [the RasPi is $35], and there’s money in the budget to hire Clive and produce some teaching material too." -- Eben, http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3158#comment-38947 "There’s extra money in the grant (we’d initially been asked not to discuss how much it was, but when a news site tried to work the sum out by multiplying $35 by 15000 and got a very wrong figure, we were given permission to talk about it: it’s a million dollars). That’s going to employ Clive; it’ll also provide materials (good quality, printed materials), support for teachers and for kids, and (I believe) peripherals. "As for “traditional [IT] bureaucracy” – I’ve been really dismayed by the reaction of the UK’s largest teaching union [NUT]..." -- Liz, http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3158#comment-39008 They've just made the initial announcement so far, more details are to follow in the next week or two, in particular how requests for them can be made. AIUI they're keen to deliver them to the pupils and not a school for them to languish unpacked in the back of a cupboard. > 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 don't agree there's only one "properly" and starting with logic would seem to be a very dry approach with little apparent connection to the real world. Some maths is taught this way and the connection between tan() and http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Circle-trig6.svg/1000px-Circle-trig6.svg.png is never made. :-) Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-02-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
