Schlagwort: Research
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Reducing the load: ways to support novice programmers
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat’s your experience of learning to program? Have you given up and thought it just wasn’t for you? This has been the case for many people — and it’s the focus of a lot of research. Now that teaching programming is in the curriculum in many countries around the world, it’s even…
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Volunteer your Raspberry Pi to IBM’s World Community Grid
Reading Time: 3 minutesIBM’s World Community Grid is working with scientists at Scripps Research on computational experiments to help find potential COVID-19 treatments. Anyone with a Raspberry Pi and an internet connection can help. Why is finding potential treatments for COVID-19 so important? Scientists all over the globe are working hard to create a vaccine…
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How we are helping you with computing teaching methods
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne aspect of our work as part of the National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE) is producing free materials for teachers about teaching methods and pedagogy in computing. I am excited to introduce these materials to you here! Teachers are asking us about teaching methods Computing was included in the national curriculum…
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Mathematics and programming: exploring the links
Reading Time: 6 minutes“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.” –…
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Learning AI at school — a peek into the black box
Reading Time: 5 minutes“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…
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Making the best of it: online learning and remote teaching
Reading Time: 7 minutesAs many educators across the world are currently faced with implementing some form of remote teaching during school closures, we thought this topic was ideal for the very first of our seminar series about computing education research. Research into online learning and remote teaching At the Raspberry Pi Foundation, we are hosting…
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Cambridge Computing Education Research Symposium – recap of our online event
Reading Time: 5 minutesOn Wednesday, we hosted the first-ever Cambridge Computing Education Research Symposium online. Research in computing education, particularly in school and for young people, is a young field compared to maths and science education, and we do not have much in terms of theoretical foundations. It is not a field that has received…
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FluSense takes on COVID-19 with Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 3 minutesRaspberry Pi devices are often used by scientists, especially in biology to capture and analyse data, and a particularly striking – and sobering – project has made the news this week. Researchers at UMass Amherst have created FluSense, a dictionary-sized piece of equipment comprising a cheap microphone array, a thermal sensor, an…
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Attend our Cambridge Computing Education Research Symposium
Reading Time: 3 minutesAre you an academic, researcher, student, or educator who is interested in computing education research? Then come and join us in Cambridge, UK on 1 April 2020 for discussion and networking at our first-ever research symposium. Dr Natalie Rusk from the MIT Media Lab is our keynote speaker Join our symposium At…
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‘Gender Balance in Computing’ research project launch
Reading Time: 4 minutesI am excited to reveal that a consortium of partners has been awarded £2.4 million for a new research project to investigate how to engage more girls in computing, as part of our work with the National Centre for Computing Education. The award comes at a crucial time in computing education, after…
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What we are learning about learning
Reading Time: 5 minutesAcross Code Clubs, CoderDojos, Raspberry Jams, and all our other education programmes, we’re working with hundreds of thousands of young people. They are all making different projects and learning different things while they are making. The research team at the Raspberry Pi Foundation does lots of work to help us understand what…
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UCLA Bioengineer Develops SLA 3D Printer That Produces Complex Artificial Tissues
Reading Time: 3 minutesResearchers from UCLA have developed a SLA-based bioprinter that is able to create therapeutic biomaterials from multiple materials. This advancement could potentially be used for on-demand printing of complex artificial tissues for use in transplants and other surgeries. Body tissues are highly complex and made of various different cell types, and this makes…
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This 3D Printed Smart Gel Walks Underwater and Moves Objects
Reading Time: 2 minutesEngineers at Rutgers University have created a 3D printed smart gel that walks underwater. It can also grab objects and move them. If you’re looking for some nightmare dreamscape material, try this on for size. Rutgers University researchers have invented a 3D printed smart gel that can walk underwater, grab objects, and…
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This 3D Printed Skim Reaper Can Prevent Credit Card Fraud
Reading Time: 3 minutesCredit card skimming is a disease. Meet the cure. The New York City Police Department is testing a “skim reaper” to detect and prevent credit card fraud. It’s based on a 3D printed prototype by researchers from the University of Florida. Cyber-security researchers from the University of Florida are working with the…
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3D Printed AlterEgo Wearable Responds to Silent Speech
Reading Time: 3 minutesStudents from MIT have created a prototype 3D printed device, AlterEgo, that can recognize the words you mouth when silently talking to yourself and interpret them as commands. Step aside Alexa, you’ve got some company. A computer interface devised by researchers at MIT can transcribe words that the user verbalizes internally but…
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3D Printed Dentures Filled with Drugs to Fight Infection
Reading Time: 3 minutesResearchers at the University of Buffalo have invented 3D printed dentures which can be used to deliver drugs among those highly susceptible to infection, such as the elderly, hospitalized or disabled patients. For folks wearing dentures, an unfortunate side-effect can be fungal infections which cause inflammation, redness and swelling in the mouth.…
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New Technique Can 3D Print Electronics Directly on Skin
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn an exciting new study, researchers at the University of Minnesota demonstrate how a customized, low-cost 3D printer can print electronics onto a moving hand. Researchers at the University of Minnesota have used a customized low-cost 3D printer to apply electronic circuitry to a human hand. A potential use for the technology…
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3D Printed Surgical Needle Inspired by Honey Bee Stingers
Reading Time: 3 minutesEngineers at Temple University in Philadelphia take inspiration from the insect kingdom for their 3D printed surgical needle design; the stinger of the humble honeybee. While exploring a new concept for a 3D printed surgical needle at Temple University in Philadelphia, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Parsaoran Hutapea and PhD candidate Mohammad…
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Printable Body Tissue with Personalized Bio-Inks Boost Healing Potential
Reading Time: 3 minutesBy embedding platelets into a 3D printed mixture of cells and gel, a team of researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln hope to improve the healing properties of tissue implants and skin grafts with printable body tissue. Researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, MIT, and Massachusetts General Hospital have incorporated platelet-rich plasma…
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Researchers Develop 3D Printed Metamaterials That Can Control Vibration and Sound
Reading Time: 4 minutesResearchers from USC Viterbi School of Engineering have developed 3D printed metamaterials that can switch between active control and passive states, enabling control of acoustic and optical waves. A team of researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering has just developed acoustic metamaterials that can be controlled via magnetic fields. While…
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Soft Robotic Gripper with Gecko Inspired Adhesives
Reading Time: 3 minutesA new class of adhesives — inspired by the mighty Gecko — have been developed by researchers in California to help soft robotic fingers get a better grip A team of researchers have developed a robotic gripper that combines the adhesive properties of gecko toes and the adaptability of air-powered soft robots.…
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This 3D Printed Wearable Can Monitor Stomach Activity
Reading Time: 3 minutesScientists at UC San Diego create a 3D printed wearable to monitor stomach activity throughout the day, replacing the need for invasive probes. A team of engineers and physicians at the University of Sand Diego have developed a wearable, non-invasive system to monitor electrical activity in the stomach over 24 hours. Essentially,…