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

From	Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid>
Subject	Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day!
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Date	2012-03-13 12:40 -0500

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Mark Wills <markrobertwills@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

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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
  Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Pablo Hugo Reda <pabloreda@gmail.com> - 2012-03-12 14:11 -0700
  Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Pablo Hugo Reda <pabloreda@gmail.com> - 2012-03-12 14:14 -0700
  Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-12 14:51 -0700
    Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2012-03-12 16:11 -0700
      Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! dirk.bruehl@usa.net - 2012-03-13 00:55 -0700
        Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-13 01:36 -0700
          Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! dirk.bruehl@usa.net - 2012-03-13 07:10 -0700
        Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Zbiggy <zbigniew2011REMOVE@gmail.REMOVE.com> - 2012-03-13 22:58 +0100
          Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! dirk.bruehl@usa.net - 2012-03-13 19:42 -0700
        Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! cas_news@strotmann.de (Carsten Strotmann (Usenet)) - 2012-03-22 18:31 +0100
          Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-22 10:58 -0700
            Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! dirk.bruehl@usa.net - 2012-03-22 22:52 -0700
          Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! dirk.bruehl@usa.net - 2012-03-22 23:30 -0700
            Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Jan Coombs <jan_2011-02@murray-microft.co.uk> - 2012-03-23 07:59 +0000
              Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-23 02:00 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2012-03-23 15:32 +0000
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! dirk.bruehl@usa.net - 2012-03-23 12:10 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! dirk.bruehl@usa.net - 2012-03-23 10:43 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-24 22:39 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! dirk.bruehl@usa.net - 2012-03-24 23:18 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-03-24 21:08 -1000
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-25 01:53 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-03-25 08:38 -1000
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-25 15:59 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-03-25 13:21 -1000
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! cas_news@strotmann.de (Carsten Strotmann (Usenet)) - 2012-03-26 09:37 +0200
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-25 00:26 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! cas_news@strotmann.de (Carsten Strotmann (Usenet)) - 2012-03-25 11:36 +0200
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-25 19:34 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-03-25 17:03 -1000
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-25 20:13 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! dirk.bruehl@usa.net - 2012-03-25 20:17 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-25 21:31 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! cas_news@strotmann.de (Carsten Strotmann (Usenet)) - 2012-03-26 08:57 +0200
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-26 01:10 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-26 02:55 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-26 03:05 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! cas_news@strotmann.de (Carsten Strotmann (Usenet)) - 2012-03-26 15:45 +0200
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! dirk.bruehl@usa.net - 2012-03-26 00:28 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-26 02:43 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-26 02:35 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-26 02:44 -0700
              Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2012-03-23 15:11 +0000
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! dirk.bruehl@usa.net - 2012-03-23 11:38 -0700
              Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! dirk.bruehl@usa.net - 2012-03-23 09:49 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Jan Coombs <jan_2011-02@murray-microft.co.uk> - 2012-03-25 22:24 +0100
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! dirk.bruehl@usa.net - 2012-03-25 17:16 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Jan Coombs <jan_2011-02@murray-microft.co.uk> - 2012-03-29 23:58 +0100
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! dirk.bruehl@usa.net - 2012-03-29 18:16 -0700
    Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-03-13 08:49 -0500
      Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-13 07:16 -0700
        Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-03-13 12:40 -0500
          Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-03-13 11:50 -0700
            Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! quiet_lad <gavcomedy@gmail.com> - 2012-03-13 15:11 -0700
              Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! "Harry Vaderchi" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2012-03-13 22:21 +0000
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-03-15 14:22 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! jacko <jackokring@gmail.com> - 2012-03-15 18:25 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-03-17 17:06 +0100
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! dirk.bruehl@usa.net - 2012-03-17 11:47 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2012-03-18 11:23 +0000

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