How to Integrate the Raspberry Pi
into your CIS Programs
Here is a copy of my PowerPoint for this presentation.
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I truly believe that there is at least one, or more, assignments/projects in every CIS course taught at the Community College level that could be converted to a Raspberry Pi based assignment or project. I think this simple change will enhance the learning experience of all CIS students by providing a tactile learning opportunity that improves their CIS acumen making them more desirable to employers. Kerry Bruce
Why Integrate The Raspberry Pi Into Your Classroom
1. Low Cost - At $100 to get started and up to $300 total for add-ons and extras the Raspberry Pi is a low cost alternative to PC/Laptops for CIS/CS education.
2. Flexibility - The Raspberry Pi can be used as a desktop computer and with the GPIO pins can be turned into thousands of physical computing IoT projects.
3. Power/Size - The Raspberry Pi is powerful enough to be a desktop computer and is the size of a credit card.
4. Community - The community around the Raspberry Pi is robust and quite active and amazingly helpful. Search Raspberry PI + Name of the project you are curious about and you will find tons of resources/tutorials/code to help you.
5. Tactile Learning Opportunities - With the Raspberry Pi students must learn how the computer works in order to accomplish their tasks/goals. This creates an active physical learning component that is missing when they sit down at a computer to watch training videos.
6. The Raspberry Pi is really fun to play with, experiment with, and learn with.
2. Flexibility - The Raspberry Pi can be used as a desktop computer and with the GPIO pins can be turned into thousands of physical computing IoT projects.
3. Power/Size - The Raspberry Pi is powerful enough to be a desktop computer and is the size of a credit card.
4. Community - The community around the Raspberry Pi is robust and quite active and amazingly helpful. Search Raspberry PI + Name of the project you are curious about and you will find tons of resources/tutorials/code to help you.
5. Tactile Learning Opportunities - With the Raspberry Pi students must learn how the computer works in order to accomplish their tasks/goals. This creates an active physical learning component that is missing when they sit down at a computer to watch training videos.
6. The Raspberry Pi is really fun to play with, experiment with, and learn with.
Raspberry Pi in Networking |
Raspberry Pi in Programming |