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The girl and the bull

Published on: 3/7/19

In March 2017, the city of New York woke up with a new neighbour: the Fearless Girl. The bronze statue depicts a girl who, as originally installed, faced a much larger and heavier ...

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Can you use a pi-top for microsurgery training?

Published on: 3/5/19

As we've discussed before on this blog, we're constantly amazed when people use our products in ways we'd not even thought of. So when Michael Axelsson and Bill Williams got in ...

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From code to cake! A recipe for 'learning by making' for younger children

Published on: 3/4/19

In this essay, two of pi-top's learning team explore how to bring social constructionism and learning by making to the under 12s.

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What we've been reading, week 9

Published on: 3/1/19

Hello March, hello weekend! Welcome back to another week of ‘what we’ve been reading’, our weekly round-up with the best education, making and learning stories that you should ...

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Why is it hard to learn about learning (a brief history of indoor lighting)

Published on: 2/28/19

This keynote was delivered at our Bett Show 2019 fringe event, Learning by Making, by Dr William Rankin PhD, Founder of Unfold Learning and former Director of Learning & Research ...

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pi-top [4] hero project: weather balloon

Published on: 2/27/19

In this short series, we speak to the designers and engineers who created our hero projects at Bett Show 2019 to find out how they built them and what problems they overcame.

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Scratch and education

Published on: 2/26/19

In the latest episode of our podcast, We Make The Future, we explore the world of Scratch visual programming.

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Here's Raspberry Pi CEO, Eben Upton, on the pi-top [4]

Published on: 2/25/19

Eben Upton is the CEO and inventor of the Raspberry Pi, the computer that powers the pi-top family. So it was only fair that we gave him exclusive access to our latest product.

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What we've been reading, week 8

Published on: 2/23/19

Welcome to our weekly round-up! If you want to find out what's going on in the world of science, technology, education, and making then keep on reading.

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Why putting technology in the classroom doesn't make you a better teacher

Published on: 2/22/19

Bea Leiderman is an instructional technology coach at Goochland County Public Schools in Goochland, Virginia. Her work focuses on helping teachers and students navigate new ...

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