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Learn with RPi

Raspberry-Pi helps teachers and learners to learn and practice. Here are three useful projects and ideas that might inspire you!
  • Weather

It’s important and useful to learn about weather. Instructors can help students to understand and apply data collection related to weather. RPi can be used with sensors and programmed to collect, analyze, and present the data. Here is. Here is how.
  • Science

Students can investigate various concepts from Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, using a Raspberry Pi and a Sense HAT. Here is how.
  • Networking
I remember my Networking classes. They were board, as we were trying to learn a practical topic with no practice! Young learners shouldn’t suffer, thanks to RPi. Here is how.


These are just a few examples, and there are much more. You can explore them at this link.
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  1. Wow, looks like that there are many ways to learn and build network through RPi. When it comes to weather, I wonder if you have heard about Dark Sky. My son says he has learned something based on Dark Sky api.

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    1. Hi Hyo
      Actually I didn't hear about Dark Sky before, but I think this is a good chance to learn more about it, thanks for sharing this information!

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  2. Hi Abubakr
    This tool is very useful. It is an umbrella for almost all educator to facilitate their activities for their students through this tool. i think it will help educators to save time and effort since they can work via this tool wherever they are. Thank you so much : )

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    1. It's is Rashed, and I believe learners, especially younger, will use it more and more in the future. If you noticed, all above applications are for high school or collage level. However, RPi is always for young kids as of primary or basic school level. In my next post I will be talking about Scratch language, which is developed by MIT and can be used with RPi. This language is really for KIDS, I mean kids of 5 years old and above!

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