Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Educating with Raspberry Pi”.
I’M director of educational development for the raspberry pi foundation, we’re here at maker faire to really really focus on our educational side of our charity this year. So for education, we’ve recently launched a brand new website. It’S got resources for teachers for learners and makers, and the teacher thing’s really really important. We’Re really aware of raspberry pi that the computing side, the making side this stem angle, is something that’s not been taught well, certainly in the uk for many years, we really want to support any teachers, any educators that want to pick up around your pie and use It to teach young people, programming, education and programming, making anything you want to do. We are here to support that.
That’S really our reason for being so what we found last year, that was that people were coming up to us at events and saying, what’s a reality pie, i don’t understand why i should use it. Why should i use instant, laptop or tablet, and what we’re finding this year is that people are coming up: teachers, educators and just the general public and saying i’ve got a raspberry pi. I’Ve done a few bits and bobs with it. But what can i do next? How can i improve um? How can i i i? How can i, how can i really really use this in a positive way to get kids learning and to get them creating and to get them making and we’ve we’ve just found this in the sea change over the last year.
It’S really really positive thing to see the main thing about the raspberry pi, especially what i’ve seen at this event is i’ll say: do you have a raspberry, pi and i’ll say yeah, i’ve got five and then you’ll say well. What are you using for, and it’s like that, and i need another one because i’d like to use it for this, and it really does show that something like a little computer like that is a general purpose: computer, that if you’ve got a project and you’ve got Something in mind: it’s really a toolkit for for solving that problem. It’S not this computer that i’m going to program on and just code on, it’s a problem solver and it’s something you can be really creative with the media. Experience for me is it’s such a positive thing from from the initial opening when everyone’s cheering and it’s just a massive plus to get in and then there’s a really nice mix of people, so you’ve got families.
You’Ve got parents with kids asking questions, you’ve got makers, you’ve got hobbyists, you’ve got professionals, so you’ve got this really really interesting cross-section of people to talk to and they’re all genuinely interested in being here and making stuff it’s fantastic. .