Miss Adventures in Raspberry Pi

Keynote at Pycon UK 2014 - A tale of one teacher and her journey from ICT to Computing, and how the wider community can help computing education.

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1. Adventures in
   Raspberry Pi
   Miss
   see me
   after class
   B-
   (One teacher’s journey)
   

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2. Carrie Anne Philbin
   Award Winning Educator, Author & YouTuber
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   @MissPhilbin
   Education Pioneer
   Raspberry Pi Foundation
   

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3. Bought a Pi
   Attended first
   Raspberry Jam
   Invited to
   PyConUK
   Wrote a
   book
   Won award
   February 2012
   June 2012
   Sept 2012
   Summer 2013
   December 2013
   (heckled)
   .. now what?
   Rasp Pi in the
   classroom
   Dec 2012
   Work for
   Raspberry Pi
   January 2014 - present
   

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4. success
   My
   is
   to you
   thanks
   

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5. Why teach computing?
   Humans
   need not
   apply
   children are
   creative,
   imaginative, and
   not afraid of
   failure
   social
   mobility
   empowering
   Diversity in
   tech
   

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6. The Computing Curriculum
   new
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   “From 5, children will learn to code and program, with
   algorithms, sequencing, selection and repetition;
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   from 11, how to use at least 2 programming languages to solve
   computational problems; to design … computational abstractions
   that model the state and behaviour of real-world problems and
   physical systems; and how instructions are stored and executed
   within a computer system.”
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   Michael Gove - UK Secretary for Education
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   ex
   

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7. Why Raspberry Pi?
   cheap!
   a classroom
   solution
   Control
   real world
   objects
   Pupil
   Premium
   Project
   based
   learning
   Community
   Free resources
   & training
   RaspberryPi.org
   

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8. What you can do to help
   Raspberry Jam Events
   Setup a Code Club
   mentor or sponsor a
   teacher
   Contribute to free & open
   Raspberry Pi Resources
   create & contribute
   awesome python libraries
   

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9. Academics Industry
   Experts
   Teachers
   Amazing things
   happen when we
   collaborate!
   

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10. Teachers
    are for Life
    … not just for PyCon UK!
    

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11. … or worse… this guy!
    or teachers will be
    stuck with this dude
    

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12. Carrie Anne Philbin
    Award Winning Educator, Author & YouTuber
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    @MissPhilbin
    Education Pioneer
    Raspberry Pi Foundation
    

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