Raspberry Pi device will 'reboot computing in schools'  A tiny
computer called Raspberry Pi and costing £20 is the big hope for
this year. But most of the orders come from private schools
Pupils at The King’s School, Chester, check out a Raspberry Pi
computer Pupils at The King’s School, Chester, check out a
Raspberry Pi computer. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the
Guardian Christopher Thomond/Guardian  Eben Upton was an
academic working in computer science at Cambridge University
when, five years ago, he began to notice a disturbing trait
among the applicants he was interviewing for degree course
places. "None of them seemed to know enough about what a
computer really was or how it worked," he says. "I found it
worrying."  What Upton realised was that schools weren't
teaching pupils the basics of computing any more – they were
just teaching them how to use software. "Children were learning
about applications, which are pretty low-value skills. They
weren't being properly equipped to think about how comp