[CS4HS] [Oz-teachers] Rasberry Pi $25 uk edu computer in production

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Just thought that I would mention that the discussions and ideas raised by
the recent UK speech about computational thinking is getting good mention
in not only the UK but also the Oz-teachers and eChalk lists.

Regards Roland

On 13 January 2012 13:31, Paul Shirren <shirro at shirro.com> wrote:

> On 13/01/12 12:30 PM, Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
>
>> Tom, it is a teaching and learning device and the idea of where it can
>> fit into a school curriculum probably has more in common with the
>> Arduino device that is already popular in some schools.
>>
>
> Although the Rasberry Pi news was topical I posted it almost as an
> addendum to the speech by the UK Education Secretary. It felt like a piece
> clicking into a bigger puzzle. Perhaps it needs to be appreciated in terms
> of education aims and the movement from industry, academia and government
> which seems to be on to push curriculum change in the UK.
>
> I was a bit dismissive of this project early on since it is trivial to
> throw a virtual machine on a PC and run any environment you want and we
> have Arduino for the low level stuff. However you could view it and the
> speech below as almost a successor to the BBC Computer Literacy Project
> which had an impact as far away as Australia before the lost decades.
>
> This time around they really need to look at teacher education. The truth
> is anyone can pick up Word, Excel and PowerPoint in a few days so it is
> obvious that without providing teachers with specialist training computers
> in education are always going to tend towards the shallow end. See some of
> the links to K-6 ICT competencies thread to see what is going wrong.
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/**politics/2012/jan/11/michael-**
> gove-boring-it-lessons<http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jan/11/michael-gove-boring-it-lessons>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/**education/2012/jan/11/digital-**
> literacy-michael-gove-speech<http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jan/11/digital-literacy-michael-gove-speech>
>
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<http://www.google.com/educators/gta.html> Roland
Gesthuizen - Learning Technologies Coordinator
Keysborough Secondary College <http://www.keysboroughsc.vic.edu.au>, Acacia
Campus

B.App.Sci., M.Ed.(ICT), ACCE Professional Associate, Educator of the year
2010

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