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Seminars main pagePrevious seminars You can read up on our past research seminars in short chapters written by our seminar speakers. Each chapter contains the key content of the seminar, as well as additional information and materials for you to delve deeper into the big topics of computing education research. For each seminar series, we… … Continue reading →
The summer months are an exciting time at the Foundation: you can feel the buzz of activity as we prepare for the start of a new school year in many parts of the world. Across our range of fantastic (and free) programmes, everyone works hard to create new and improved resources that help teachers and… … Continue reading →
The Code Club community is global, and today we’re sharing a bit about the passion, dedication, and commitment of the Scottish community to support the digital, personal, and social skills of young people. Code Club launched in schools in 2012 to give opportunities to children to share and develop their love of coding through free… … Continue reading →
In our current series of research seminars, we are exploring how computing can be connected to other subjects using cross-disciplinary approaches. In July 2022, our speakers were Professor Yasmin Kafai from the University of Pennsylvania and Elaine Griggs, an award-winning teacher from Pembroke High School, Massachusetts, and we heard about their use of e-textiles to… … Continue reading →
Introducing children to computing concepts from a young age can help develop their interest and attachment to the subject. While parents might wonder what the best tools and resources are for this, primary and K1–5 educators also need to know what approaches work with their learners. ‘Teaching computing to 5- to 11-year-olds’ is one of… … Continue reading →
You may have heard a lot about coding and how important it is for children to start learning about coding as early as possible. Computers have become part of our lives, and we’re not just talking about the laptop or desktop computer you might have in your home or on your desk at work. Your… … Continue reading →
Today we share the second report in our series of findings from the Gender Balance in Computing research programme, which we’ve been running as part of the National Centre for Computing Education and with various partners. In this £2.4 million research programme, funded by the Department for Education in England, we aim to identify ways… … Continue reading →
Issue 19 of our free magazine Hello World, written by and for the computing education community, focuses on the interaction between sustainability and computing, from how we can interact with technology responsibly, to its potential to mitigate climate change. To give you a taste of this brand-new issue, here is primary school teacher Peter Gaynord’s… … Continue reading →
Congratulations to the thousands of creators from 46 countries who participated in Coolest Projects Global 2022. Their projects awed and inspired us. Yesterday STEM advocate and television host Fig O’Reilly helped us celebrate each and every one of these creators in our online event. Check out the gallery to see all the amazing projects. During… … Continue reading →
We love being able to share how young people across the world are getting creative with technology and solving problems that matter to them. That’s why we put together a series of films that celebrate the personal stories of young tech creators. For our next story, we met up with young digital maker Jay in… … Continue reading →
All young people deserve meaningful opportunities to learn how to create with digital technologies. But according to UNESCO, as much as 40% of people around the world don’t have access to education in a language they speak or understand. At the Raspberry Pi Foundation, we offer more than 200 free online projects that people all… … Continue reading →
We’ve been running the Gender Balance in Computing programme of research since 2019, as part of the National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE) and with various partners. It’s a £2.4 million research programme funded by the Department for Education in England that aims to identify ways to encourage more girls and young women to engage… … Continue reading →
We are delighted to launch our next series of free online seminars, this time on the topic of cross-disciplinary computing, running monthly from May to November 2022. As always, our seminars are for all researchers, educators, and anyone else interested in research related to computing education. Crossing disciplinary boundaries What do we mean by cross-disciplinary… … Continue reading →
Since the inception of Code Club in 2012, teachers in Wales have been part of the Code Club community, running extracurricular Code Club sessions for learners in their schools. As of late 2021, there are 84 active clubs in Wales. With our new Code Club Community Coordinator for Wales, Sarah Eve Roberts, on board, we… … Continue reading →
India’s rapidly digitising economy needs people with IT and programming skills, as well as skills such as creativity, unstructured problem solving, teamwork, and communication. Unfortunately, too many children in India currently do not have access to digital technologies, or to opportunities to learn these technical skills. Roadblocks to accessing digital skills Before children and young… … Continue reading →
It’s time for young tech creators to share with the world what they’ve made! Coolest Projects Global 2022 registration is NOW OPEN. Starting today, young people can register their technology creation on the Coolest Projects Global website, where it will be featured in the online showcase gallery for the whole world to see. By registering… … Continue reading →
Python is a programming language that’s popular with learners and educators in clubs and schools. It also is widely used by professional programmers, particularly in the data science field. Many educators and young people like how similar the Python syntax is to the English language. That’s why Python is often the first text-based language that… … Continue reading →
Are you curious about coding and computer programming but don’t know how to begin? Do you want to help your children at home, or learners in your school, with their digital skills, but you’re not very confident yet? Then our new, free, and on-demand online course Introduction to Programming with Scratch course is a fun,… … Continue reading →
For those of us living in the USA, February is Black History Month, our month-long celebration of Black history. This is an occasion to highlight the amazing accomplishments of Black Americans through time. Simply put, the possibilities are endless! Black history touches every area of our lives, and it is so important that we seize… … Continue reading →
What is AI thinking? What concepts should we introduce to young people related to AI, including machine learning (ML), and data science? Should we teach with a glass-box or an opaque-box approach? These are the questions we’ve been grappling with since we started our online research seminar series on AI education at the Raspberry Pi… … Continue reading →
It’s time to start your countdown! Young people from all over the world will soon be invited to share their digital creations at Coolest Projects Global 2022, our world-leading online technology showcase event for young creators. In mid-February, project registration opens for a new and improved, online-only experience. Through Coolest Projects Global, young creators can… … Continue reading →
This month, the team behind our Code Club programme supported nearly 6000 children across Scotland to “code against climate change” during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow. “The scale of what we have achieved is outstanding. We have supported over 5750 young learners to code projects that are both engaging and meaningful… … Continue reading →
How does teaching children and young people about machine learning (ML) differ from teaching them about other aspects of computing? Professor Matti Tedre and Dr Henriikka Vartiainen from the University of Eastern Finland shared some answers at our latest research seminar. Their presentation, titled ‘ML education for K-12: emerging trajectories’, had a profound impact on… … Continue reading →
Today we are introducing you to Code Club World — a free online platform where young people aged 9 to 13 can learn to make stuff with code. In Code Club World, young people can: Start out by creating their personal robot avatar Make music, design a t-shirt, and teach their robot avatar to dance!… … Continue reading →
On the occasion of Black History Month UK, we speak to Joe Arday, Computer Science teacher at Woodbridge High School in Essex, UK, about his experiences in computing education, his thoughts about underrepresentation of Black students in the subject, and his ideas about what needs to be done to engage more Black students. To start… … Continue reading →
Our mission at the Raspberry Pi Foundation is to help learners get creative with technology and develop the skills and confidence they need to make things that matter to them using code and physical computing. One of the ways in which we do this is by offering learners a catalogue of more than 250 free… … Continue reading →
Today we’re announcing two brand-new, fantastic, free online courses for educators in the USA. And to kickstart their learning journey, we are giving qualified US-based educators the chance to get a free Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller hardware kit. This is all thanks to our partners at Infosys Foundation USA, who are committed to expanding access… … Continue reading →
In computing education, designing equitable and authentic learning experiences requires a conscious effort to take into account the characteristics of all learners and their social environments. Doing this allows teachers to address topics that are relevant to a diverse range of learners. To support computing and computer science teachers with this work, we’re now sharing… … Continue reading →
A recent Forbes article reported that over the last four years, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in many business sectors has grown by 270%. AI has a history dating back to Alan Turing’s work in the 1940s, and we can define AI as the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to… … Continue reading →
Wow, we haven’t stopped smiling since yesterday’s live Coolest Projects celebration! Hosts Maddie Moate and Greg Foot led us through a live online event jam-packed with stories from participants, cool tech creations, and inspiring messages from our special judges. AND they revealed whose projects the judges picked as their favourites from among all of this… … Continue reading →
There’s so much magic in the world and on this week’s episode of Digital Making at Home, we… … Continue reading →
When Stack Overflow conducted a survey of 64,000 software engineers, it found that 1% of their respondents were blind — a far higher percentage than among the total population. Yet it is far from easy for young people with visual disabilities to engage in learning programming in school. In this month’s seminar, Dr Cecily Morrison… … Continue reading →
After a brief hiatus over the Easter period, we are excited to be back with our series of online research seminars focused on diversity and inclusion, where in partnership with the Royal Academy of Engineering, we host researchers from the UK and USA. By diversity, we mean any dimension that can be used to differentiate… … Continue reading →
It’s time to use code in order to make your computer is safe for you and your family… … Continue reading →
It’s amazing how digital making can help you see the world differently and this week on Digital Making… … Continue reading →
Yesterday was Pi Day and we celebrated with a special episode of Digital Making at Home, hosted by… … Continue reading →
In our free Coolest Projects online showcase, we invite a worldwide community of young people to come together and celebrate what they’ve built with technology. For this year’s showcase, we’ve already got young tech creators from more than 35 countries registered, including from India, Ireland, UK, USA, Australia, Serbia, Japan, and Syria! Register to become… … Continue reading →
You already light up a room with your amazing digital making skills, and you can shine even brighter… … Continue reading →
This week we got a visit from a LEGENDARY multi-talented guest with so many amazing things to share… … Continue reading →
With so many people all over the world still living in various levels of lockdown, we’ve been working hard to provide free, creative project resources for you to keep young digital makers occupied, learning, and most importantly having fun. As a dad of two, I know how useful it is to have resources and project… … Continue reading →
It’s official: idea registration is finally open for Coolest Projects 2021! Our Coolest Projects online showcase brings together a worldwide community of young people who make things with technology. Everyone up to age 18, wherever they are in the world, can register for Coolest Projects to become part of this community with their own tech… … Continue reading →
Happy New Year, digital makers — we couldn’t wait to get back to coding together with you! Just… … Continue reading →
As the UK — like many countries around the world — kicks off the new year with another national lockdown, meaning that millions of young people are unable to attend school, I want to share an update on how the Raspberry Pi Foundation is helping young people to learn at home. Please help us spread… … Continue reading →
Howdy, How do we intend to relieve you from being at the receiving end of endless “My printer’s not working again!”-type messages? With our new book: Help! My Computer is Broken (How do I fix it?). It will help people who struggle to keep their computer computing help themselves. Buy it for the first eight… … Continue reading →
The year is drawing to a close, and we are so excited for 2021! More than 700 young people from 39 countries shared their tech creations in the free Coolest Projects online showcase this year! We loved seeing so many young people shine with their creative projects, and we can’t wait to see what the… … Continue reading →
Happy holidays, digital makers! This season might look a little different from what we’re all used to, but… … Continue reading →
At the Raspberry Pi Foundation, we are continually inspired by young learners in our community: they embrace digital making and computing to build creative projects, supported by our resources, clubs, and volunteers. While creating their projects, they are learning the core programming skills that underlie digital making. Over the years, many tools and environments have… … Continue reading →
Want to learn how to make computers see using Scratch code? You’ve come to the right place! That’s… … Continue reading →
Whenever you learn a new subject or skill, at some point you need to pick up the particular language that goes with that domain. And the only way to really feel comfortable with this language is to practice using it. It’s exactly the same when learning programming. In our latest research seminar, we focused on… … Continue reading →
This week’s live stream was all about learning the basics of machine learning, and we were so happy… … Continue reading →
We’re pleased to share that Dr Sue Sentance, our Chief Learning Officer, is receiving a Suffrage Science award for Mathematics and Computing today. The Suffrage Science award scheme celebrates women in science. Sue is being recognised for her achievements in computer science and computing education research, and for her work promoting computing to the next… … Continue reading →
We’re proud to show our support for This is Engineering Day, an annual campaign from the Royal Academy of Engineering to bring engineering to life for young people by showcasing its variety and creativity. This year’s #BeTheDifference theme focuses on the positive impact engineering can have on everyday life and on the world we live… … Continue reading →
Explore our new free pathway of environmental digital making projects for young people! These new step-by-step projects teach learners Scratch coding and include real-world data — from data about the impact of deforestation on wildlife to sea turtle tracking information. By following along with the digital making projects online, young people will discover how they… … Continue reading →
It’s time for a dessert break with Raspberry Pi! This week’s live stream code-along session is sure to… … Continue reading →
Howdy, We were so happy to hear from Dominique Laloux again, who we have been in touch with since 2013 when he started to bring computing to students in Togo, West Africa. He’s still going and opened a brand-new Raspberry Pi room in a remote school earlier this year. Our Digital Making at Home team… … Continue reading →
In the brand-new issue of Hello World magazine, Shuchi Grover tells us about the limits of constructionism, the value of formative assessment, and why programming can be a source of both joy and angst. How much open-ended exploration should there be in computing lessons? This is a question at the heart of computer science education… … Continue reading →
This week, we’re introducing young people around the world to coding GUIs, or graphical user interfaces. Let them tune in this Wednesday at 5.30pm BST / 12.30pm EDT / 10.00pm IST for a fun live stream code-along session with Christina and special guest Martin! They’ll learn about GUIs, can ask us questions, and get to… … Continue reading →
Did you have fun with the past weeks’ well-being theme here at Digital Making at Home? You’ve made… … Continue reading →
September is wellness month at Digital Making at Home. Your young makers can code along with our educators every week to create projects that focus on their well-being. This week’s brand-new projects are all about helping young people concentrate better. Through Digital Making at Home, we invite parents and kids all over the world to… … Continue reading →
All aboard this non-stop train to your renewed body and mind, digital makers! With last week’s projects, you… … Continue reading →
Weekly live stream code-along sessions are coming to a USA-friendly time zone near you! For the next four… … Continue reading →
September is wellness month at Digital Making at Home. Your young makers can code along with our educators every week to create projects which focus on their well-being. This week’s brand-new projects are all about embracing the things that make you feel calm. Start coding with our all-new projects now! Through Digital Making at Home,… … Continue reading →
Keep calm and check out this week’s livestream, which is available to watch now! This week, we discussed… … Continue reading →
Have your kids never coded before? Then out Digital Making at Home video this week is perfect for you to get them started. In our free code-along video this week, six-year-old Noah codes his first Scratch project guided by Marc from our team. The project is a digital stress ball, because our theme for September… … Continue reading →
As you know, digital makers, if you are happy and healthy, then you can also take care of… … Continue reading →
You can now watch and share our recording of this week’s live stream coding session on YouTube.  This… … Continue reading →
Join us for Digital Making at Home: this week, young people can do stop motion and time-lapse animation with us! Through Digital Making at Home, we invite kids all over the world to code along with us and our new videos every week. So get your Raspberry Pi and Camera Module ready! We’re using them… … Continue reading →
Don’t blink or you’ll miss it! What do we mean by ‘it’ exactly? It’s EVERYTHING — the world… … Continue reading →
This week’s live stream is now available for you to watch and share with your family and friends!… … Continue reading →
Join us for Digital Making at Home: this week, young people can explore the graphics side of video game design! Through Digital Making at Home, we invite kids all over the world to code along with us and our new videos every week. So get ready to design video game graphics with us: Check out… … Continue reading →
Tell us, digital makers, did you love going retro last week?! After coding last week’s retro games, are… … Continue reading →
In case you missed it, you can now watch this week’s live stream coding session. We were so… … Continue reading →
Seminars main pageSpecial panel sessionsSeminar publications Catch up on our previous computing education research seminars All our online research seminars are available below to watch and share after they take place. You can also download the slides that were presented using the links below. Teaching programming (with or without AI) series (Jan 2024 – Dec… … Continue reading →
After your intergalactic excursion last week, this week we invite you to travel with us to the past…of… … Continue reading →
From shooting stars to solar flares, our galaxy is filled with cosmic wonders that we’re able to discover… … Continue reading →
We’re delighted to announce that our special judges — Eben Upton, Hayaatun Sillem, Limor Fried, Mitch Resnick, and Tim Peake — have chosen their favourite projects from the Coolest Projects online showcase!  Young tech creators from 39 countries are part of the showcase, including from Ireland, Australia, Palestine, UK, USA, India, and Indonesia. In total,… … Continue reading →
Hey digital makers, are you all secretly astronauts? Because your projects are always out of this world! That’s… … Continue reading →
When your digital world feels a little dull, just bring it to life with a splash of colour!… … Continue reading →
Howdy, The closure of schools has called attention to the digital divide, as some young people are struggling to continue their education because they don’t have access to technology. We are working with partner charities that help us identify the right recipients for our tiny computers, so that they can learn at home. We also… … Continue reading →
Yesterday’s live stream coding session was a blast with our BERRY special guest Carrie Ann Philbin, educator, Youtuber,… … Continue reading →
It’s time for YOU to use code to put the “POW” in “KAPOW” and the “BOOM” in “KABOOM”.… … Continue reading →
Another exciting live stream took place yesterday, and it’s still available for you to watch! A huge thank… … Continue reading →
Psst…this week you’ll be spies on a top secret digital making mission with us, and we know you’re… … Continue reading →
The results are in, the scores are tallied up and… we have a tie! Your projects have shown… … Continue reading →
Join us for Digital Making at Home: this week, young people get to make sports games in Scratch! With Digital Making at Home, we invite kids all over the world to code along with us and our new videos every week. So get ready to exercise your digital making skills with us: Check out this… … Continue reading →
Let the games begin! Take your best shot this week, digital makers: we invite you to have some… … Continue reading →
We are thrilled that five fantastic people will contribute to the Coolest Projects online showcase: Tim Peake, Limor Fried, Mitch Resnick, Hayaatun Sillem, and Eben Upton are going to be our special judges and choose their favourite projects from among all the entries from young tech creators in our global community. Meet the coolest judges!… … Continue reading →
“In my vision, the child programs the computer and, in doing so, both acquires a sense of mastery over a piece of the most modern and powerful technology and establishes an intimate contact with some of the deepest ideas from science, from mathematics, and from the art of intellectual model building.” – Seymour Papert, Mindstorms:… … Continue reading →
Swimming costume? Check! Goggles? Double check! Swimming fins? Triple check! There’s a whole world to discover under the… … Continue reading →
This week’s Digital Making at Home livestream had us on the move to catch apples falling out of… … Continue reading →
“In the near future, perhaps sooner than we think, virtually everyone will need a basic understanding of the technologies that underpin machine learning and artificial intelligence.” — from the 2018 Informatics Europe & EUACM report about machine learning As the quote above highlights, AI and machine learning (ML) are increasingly affecting society and will continue… … Continue reading →
This week has been quite the show, all thanks to you and your entertaining performances! Who needs television… … Continue reading →
We’re thrilled that Coolest Projects is taking place this summer as an online showcase, and registration opens today! Our world-leading technology fair usually takes place as a free face-to-face event, with thousands of young people coming together to showcase projects they’ve created. After making the tough decision to cancel the Coolest Projects 2020 events in… … Continue reading →
Digital Making at Home officially launched six weeks ago…SIX WEEKS AGO! Hooray to us for continuing to practice… … Continue reading →
With millions of schools still in lockdown, parents have been telling us that they need help to support their children with learning computing at home. As well as providing loads of great content for young people, we’ve been working on support tutorials specifically for parents who want to understand and learn about the programmes used… … Continue reading →
Gone are the days of sending messages to your loved ones via carrier pigeon, smoke signal, and letters… … Continue reading →
Do you hear that, digital makers? That catchy tune, getting louder and louder? With all sorts of instruments… … Continue reading →
Click here to view our Earth Day code-along videos! We hope everyone had a lovely Earth Day this… … Continue reading →
Welcome to the first-ever Digital Making at Home project showcase! The whole team at the Raspberry Pi Foundation… … Continue reading →
Welcome back for another exciting week of Digital Making at Home from the Raspberry Pi Foundation! Get ready… … Continue reading →