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Raspberry Pi’s New Starter Pack to Improve Teaching Digital Skills in the Classroom

Raspberry Pi’s New Starter Pack to Improve Teaching Digital Skills in the Classroom

In celebration of the sale of its 10 millionth computer, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is releasing a starter pack to accompany the Raspberry Pi 3 which will be available in the U.S. in the coming weeks.

The starter pack, according to Gadgets 360 includes the Raspberry Pi 3, "an 8GB SD card with a preloaded NOOBS operating system, an official case, power supply, HDMI cable, mouse, keyboard and a guidebook.”

Since its first release in 2012, Raspberry Pi has sold 10 million units thanks to its purpose as a one-of-a-kind and affordable way to teach students programming skills.

The starter kit is designed to improve how the device helps individuals learn robotics, programming and other computer science skills while still maintaining a hard-to-beat price tag.

As The Tech Portal points out, thanks to the inclusion of a keyboard and mouse in the starter pack, the only thing missing from turning the Raspberry Pi into a full-fledged computer is a monitor. 

Raspberry Pi allows educators many ways to provide students with an understanding of how computer science works in the real world, as these Raspberry Pi projects highlight. 

Originally developed and distributed in the U.K. with the specific goal of increasing "the number of people applying to study Computer Science at Cambridge,” the benefits of the cost-efficient computers became immediately recognized and utilized by countries all over the world, including the U.S.

Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton said in a blog post that the new starter kit is a way to give customer’s a premium bundle pack in celebration of the product’s continued success.

"This is an unashamedly premium product: the latest Raspberry Pi, official accessories, the best USB peripherals we could find, and a copy of the highest-rated Raspberry Pi book,” Upton said.

Committed to helping educators use their product to help students learn, Raspberry Pi offers plenty of free resources to facilitate learning with the device in the classroom. Such resources include starter lesson plans, exercises to learn with, and projects to make with. Check out those free resources here.

 

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Nicole Gorman, Education World Contributor

9/12/2016

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