Tag: education
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Building a Tadpole Camera with Raspberry Pi
Setting up a live camera feed on tadpoles using a Pimoroni Octocam kit and MotionEye OS - broadcasting to Tanooki's schoolfriends as part of their unit on Living Things.
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Origami Foxes
Recording an origami fox tutorial for Tanooki's schoolmates during lockdown - tying into the maths topic on symmetry with a fun hands-on activity.
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Mad Libs with Twine
Exploring where coding and literature intersect - recreating the classic Mad Libs car game in Twine to teach coding basics like variables.
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Speaking at the Bradford Literature Festival 2019
Speaking about How to Think Like a Coder and coding-related topics at the Bradford Literature Festival, a cultural and literary extravaganza celebrating the written and spoken word.
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How to Think Like a Coder (Without Even Trying!)
A back-to-basics guide on coding for absolute beginners. Shortlisted for the ALCS Educational Writer's Award 2018 and selected as Book Aid International's Book of the Month.
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Kids and Computers in the 80s vs Today
The 'digital native' myth is inexcusable bullshit. A 1984 Sesame Street episode and a modern Kids React video prove we're all immigrants and natives at the same time.
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Headless Pis over VNC
Setting up headless Raspberry Pis for a school programming club. No monitors needed — just power, Ethernet, and tightvncserver.