14 October 2014, 6:00pm
Raspberry Pi in Science Education, Ben Nutall (Development and Outreach, Raspberry Pi Foundation)
Abstract
The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized single board computer that costs around £25. Ben Nuttall, a maths graduate of MMU, now works in development and outreach for the Raspberry Pi Foundation, the Cambridge-based charity which engineered the device. The Foundation’s aims are to improve the state of computing education in the UK and around the world and give young people a chance to learn programming skills and computational thinking through the device’s hackable nature. Most computers bought today have no native programming environment, and little or no learning is required to use them, unlike the computers of the 1980s like the BBC Micro. The Raspberry Pi is a computer made especially for programming, making games and building physical computing projects like robots. There are a range of interesting ways to learn these skills by creating a project with the Raspberry Pi. Project tutorials and educational resources are provided for free by the Foundation and the wider community, which are being used by teachers around the world to deliver a modern curriculum in interesting and engaging ways in science, technology, maths and other subject areas.
Venue: Room E32, John Dalton Building, Oxford Road, Manchester Metropolitan University
No charge is made to attend meetings and non-members are welcome.
