Tag: schools

• Raspberry Pi ideas wanted

  Every week I teach a group of 9- and 10-year-olds some core programming skills using Scratch. The children seem to love it and I certainly enjoy it – it’s good fun to see them tackle the problems and find solutions: it really reminds me of the reasons, ongoing C++ debugging slog not withstanding, that I […]

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  Adrian McMenamin

  March 10, 2014

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  Code Club, computing for children, Education, General Purpose Input\/Output, GPIO, Light-emitting diode, Raspberry Pi, schools, Scratch (programming language)

• OLPC “fails in Peru”: Economist

  The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has failed to live up to its sponsors’ expectations in Peru, reports The Economist. As the paper says: Part of the problem is that students learn faster than many of their teachers, according to Lily Miranda, who runs a computer lab at a state school in San Borja, […]

  Adrian McMenamin

  April 7, 2012

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  computer science, ECDL, Microsoft Powerpoint, OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, Peru, Raspberry Pi, schools, Sinclair Research, Tony Blair