Raspberry Pi in Primary Education & Code Clubs

Raspberry Pi in Primary Education & Code Clubs

Adam Cohen-Rose@adamcohenrose

Code Club started: 22nd February 2012

What we’ve triedWhat we’ve found difficultWhat works for you?

Scratch

trinket

MinecraftEdu

MinecraftEdu

Code WarriorsHakitzu Battles

MakeyMakey

image from sparkfun http://j.mp/1X2Owrh

LEGO WeDo

Sphero + Tickle

Cannybots

technology will save us

POP kits

LEGO EV3 + IPython

Notebook

more info at http://j.mp/ev3dev-ipython

What’s worked?

Enables creativity

Encourages collaboration

There’s a “hook”

I haven’t talked about the Raspberry Pi’s yet…

There’s no computer lab

Very little money available

What’s difficult?

Needs to work straight away

There’s no computer lab

Very little money available

What’s difficult?

Needs to work straight away

WebIO Snow Pi

more info at https://git.io/webiosnowpi

What about you?

http://j.mp/pi-retrospective

Some participants…

Our answers…

Thank you!

Adam Cohen-Rose@adamcohenrose