You had me at Raspberry Pi
I was first introduced to Raspberry Pi through searching for local San Diegans creating innovative education to be speakers at an upcoming TEDx event. I found the group that was creating the original KA Lite, now Learning Equality, as a PhD project at the UCSD Cognitive Science Dept (the first CogSci Dept in the world) with With Jamie Alexandre and Richard Tibbles at the helm. At the time, I was obsessed with CogSci and really wanted to attend UCSD myself but it didn’t happen at the time. However! I did get to visit the core team at the little CogSci Building and I loved it.
As you can see – they are supporting youth across the world. Now, through their Kolibri Learning Platform they are further able to ‘bridge the digital divide to foster effective learning. Cool stuff if you ask me!
The Learning Equality Vision
An equitable world where all learners develop their own agency, create positive transformation, and flourish. Take a look at our Theory of Change, which guides us as we work towards this vision.1
Years later…
I walked into my office at Learning Evolution and found my CEO tinkering with a Raspberry Pi.
He was experimenting with games and I had to sit down and take a look.
We ended up spending some fun time working with it for a prospective client. This is just one example of how we would expand our horizons learning open technology such as the Adapt Learning Platform as well as AR and VR early on.
Recently, it has popped up on my radar again and I am just “Wow” at how it all has progressed.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation2 is as active as ever.
The joy and the challenge of following SO MUCH in the area of education is that, while it takes an enormous amount of effort to keep up, gems like this do tend to pop back onto my screen.
I am glad this one did!
