{"id":930754,"date":"2021-09-28T08:57:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T12:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=930754"},"modified":"2021-09-28T08:57:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T12:57:52","slug":"celebrating-the-community-yolanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=930754","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the community: Yolanda"},"content":{"rendered":"

So far in our series of community stories<\/a>, we\u2019ve collaborated with young people from the UK, India, and Romania who are getting creative with technology to change the world around them.<\/p>\n

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Our next community story comes from a highly regarded community member who has been connecting young people with opportunities to learn and create with technology throughout her career. A US-based educator with over twenty years of experience, Yolanda Payne shares our mission to put computing and digital making into the hands of people all over the world.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe biggest reason I\u2019m so invested in technology is because people invested in me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yolanda Payne<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meet Yolanda<\/h2>\n

Yolanda Payne is an educator you might recognise from our online courses<\/a>. Based in Atlanta, Georgia in the USA, she\u2019s passionate about making technology accessible to all and helping young people become technology creators.<\/p>\n

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Join us in celebrating Yolanda by sharing her story on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook!\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yolanda says, \u201cThe biggest reason I\u2019m so invested in technology is because people invested in me. They saw something that I was good at, showed me opportunities, and so in turn, that was my philosophy in teaching.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yolanda got her first computer at a young age and was hooked instantly: it opened up many new opportunities and led her to choosing a career in education. She says, \u201cThe computer gives me the tools to be an artist, it gives me the tools to create things, and if it does that for me, then just imagine what it will do for kids!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf you give a teacher a Raspberry Pi and show them these resources<\/a>, they\u2019re going to be hooked.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yolanda Payne<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yolanda has spent her entire professional life dedicated to education. She gained a bachelor\u2019s degree in Elementary Education from Mississippi University for Women; a master\u2019s degree in Instructional Technology from Mississippi State University; and Educational Specialist degrees from the University of Florida and the University of Georgia in Curriculum and Instruction, and in Language and Literacy.<\/p>\n

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Throughout her twenty-one years as a classroom teacher and her time running Code Clubs<\/a>, Yolanda found joy in supporting students who have multiple challenges or complex needs, and in seeing them thrive in the subject of computer science. Yolanda points out, \u201cI worked with both students that were considered to be in special education and students that were gifted. And one of the biggest things that I saw that I don\u2019t think people realise, especially about students in special education: they are used to solving problems. [\u2026] You\u2019d be very surprised at how real-life problem-solving skills flow very easily into computer science.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yolanda now works as a Research Associate at the Georgia Institute of Technology. We are tremendously thankful for her contributions as an educator and an advocate for technology and young people.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Please join us in celebrating her story by sharing it on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook!\u00a0<\/p>\n

The post Celebrating the community: Yolanda<\/a> appeared first on Raspberry Pi<\/a>.<\/p>\n


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