I just finished my first Sonic Pi workshop for a group of 9 high school students. I used Sonic Pi to introduce them to the basics of coding (function calls, loops, variables, threads) and music synthesis/production over a period of two hours. It was well received by the students and their teachers, and I really enjoyed doing it.
I’d like to repeat this at other schools if they’ll have me! In this case I knew the administrator, any ideas on how I should approach other schools to offer it? Has anyone done similar?
My other concern would be hardware – these kids were all Chromebook based, so I had to work w/ the school to find some Macs they could borrow for the day. Other than acquiring a bunch of Raspberry Pi’s, is there a good solution? Virtual desktops w/ remoting?
I see this is a question from two years ago and I’ve a bit the same question. Any feedback ?
I see a few options: Raspebrry’s, installing debian on a tablet (?), chromebooks, virtual desktops…
Any feedback ? What hardware do you work with ? (And specially in a mobile context where the hardware has to travel between schools or classes)
Great Q - I recently did schools w’shops in the UK and the kids have school ipads. We discovered that community learning (part of the local council) also has school ipads which can be borrowed for training. They didn’t have separate IT teaching suites.
It was impossible to project onto the wallmounted digital whiteboard in every classroom because it was an apple bluetooth system, and the physical hdmi was blocked by the wallmount. We had to get an oldschool monitor wheeled in.
I’d be interested in sharing school- and travel-friendly ideas. We have some RPis but again, carting monitors around is a pest.
It would be good to share some experiences:
-what do kids typically use in classrooms these days?
-can SPi speak to it?
-what setups are people using?
We’re doing some creative coding training, teachers keen, web-based apps easier if you’re traveling around.