Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day!

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Subject	Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day!
Date	2012-03-13 15:11 -0700
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On Tuesday, March 13, 2012 11:50:29 AM UTC-7, Alex McDonald wrote:
> On Mar 13, 5:40 pm, Andrew Haley <andre...@littlepinkcloud.invalid>
> wrote:
> > Mark Wills <markrobertwi...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > > On Mar 13, 1:49?pm, Andrew Haley <andre...@littlepinkcloud.invalid>
> > > wrote:
> > >> Mark Wills <markrobertwi...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > >> > On Mar 12, 8:05?pm, dirk.bru...@usa.net wrote:
> >
> > >> >> Wouldn't it be nice to have a Forth microprocessor board for
> > >> >> education?
> >
> > >> > Sad thing is, it's not the kids of India and Africa that are buying
> > >> > them! It's geeks...
> >
> > >> They're not for the kids of India and Africa. ?The initial impetus for
> > >> the Raspberry Pi was the dire state of what passes for IT education in
> > >> Britain.
> >
> > > Well, schools aint buying it either! At least, not yet.
> >
> > Well, no.  There aren't any to buy.
> >
> > > I wouldn't hold your breath. Schools are more likely to buy a load
> > > of Apple iPads (subsidised, of course) than PI's.
> >
> > I doubt that very much!  Everybody knows that the IT curriculum in
> > schools is shite.  There is what I take to be a serious attempt to
> > rebalance things: Michael Gove called the current ICT curriculum
> > "demotivating and dull" and even directly referred to the Raspberry Pi
> > in his speech on the subject.  It's easy to be cynical about
> > politicians [*] (and schools!) but I think that we may see a real
> > improvement.  (Heaven knows where the teachers are going to come from,
> > but at least one of the teachers I know has a PhD in comp. sci., so
> > you never know.)
> >
> > Andrew.
> >
> > [*] Esp. Tories
> 
> [*] And LibDems
> [*] Labour too
> [*] and the quite dreadful SNP

Forth for teaching would be awesome.  I think a board would have to come with network and browser tho.  Basic linux on a old i386 can do this.  I wonder if a forth machine could do it nicer?

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10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! dirk.bruehl@usa.net - 2012-03-12 13:05 -0700
  Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! "A. K." <akk@nospam.org> - 2012-03-12 22:01 +0100
    Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Pablo Hugo Reda <pabloreda@gmail.com> - 2012-03-12 14:08 -0700
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                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! dirk.bruehl@usa.net - 2012-03-25 20:17 -0700
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