Episode 50: Teaching Robotics With Python
This week, Sean & Kelly discuss how they are using Python to teach robotics in middle school, including the hardware and software it takes to get students thinking about how robots sense, process, and...
30 Sep 202030min
Episode 49: Python Tutor with Philip Guo
This week, Kelly and Sean interview Philip Guo, associate professor of cognitive science at UC San Diego. As a grad student in 2010, Philip created Python Tutor, the most widely-used program visualiza...
22 Sep 202044min
Episode 48: What We Are Using in 2020 To Teach Python
Let’s take a look at the tools we’re using in our classroom for the 2020-2021 school year to teach Python for middle school students. From IDEs to flash cards, coding challenges to Colab notebooks, an...
15 Sep 20201h 4min
Episode 47: Deconstructing the List Lesson
Let’s take a deeper look at how we teach students about one of Python’s most venerable data structures: the list. For many learners, the list is the first data structure that they encounter and it can...
1 Sep 20201h 3min
Episode 46: Musings About A Very Different School Year
Kelly and Sean discuss many of the upcoming changes for a school year heavily influenced by COVID, distance learning, hybrid/flexible classrooms, and prioritizing health and safety over content. Epis...
28 Aug 202049min
Episode 45: The Lost Episode
Ever had one of those moments where you thought you did something but then found it unfinished months later? Here's an episode we recorded back in May about how to keep your distance learning fresh an...
16 Aug 202054min
Episode 44: Communicating With Video For Effective Learning
As teachers around the world move into online teaching and learning, we must consider ways to modify our way of teaching. Writing and communicating in an online learning environment, while making conn...
27 Apr 20201h
Episode 43: Writing Content for Asynchronous Learning with David Amos
As teachers around the world move into online teaching and learning, we must consider ways to modify our way of teaching. Writing and communicating in an online learning environment, while making conn...
14 Apr 20201h 5min
