As sales of Raspberry Pi reach more than one million and the buying frenzy continues, many educators are snapping up the computer devices without a clear plan of what to do with them.
Raspberry Pi is a credit card-sized motherboard, costing under £30, designed for schools to teach computer programming cheaply. However, months after delivery, many Raspberry Pi devices remain in their cardboard cartons, unboxed and unused.
Many teachers, including myself, have questioned where this low-powered, low-cost computing device fits in to the classroom and wonder how practical it would be to build a computer science curriculum around the tool.
Raspberry Pi has been heralded as the potential saviour of computer science education and the device offers a wealth of opportunity with which to inspire students through an accessible platform.
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