Swift Teacher

I am pleased to share my discussion with my fellow Apple Distinguished Educator and coding educator colleague, Giovanna Busconi. Giovanna is a recently retired computer science teacher in a technical school. Previously, Giovanna taught math and physics teacher at a high school. Currently, she works with teacher training in Piacenza in Italy.

Giovanna's blog - https://radicedimenouno.wordpress.com/ Twitter: @giobus - https://twitter.com/giobus

Show links

Swift - https://swift.org/

Swift Playgrounds - https://appsto.re/us/eHUj2.i

iPad 1:1 - http://www.ipadbootcampforteachers.com/11-teaching.html

Learn to Code 1 & 2 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/swift-playgrounds-learn-to/id1118578018?mt=11

Xcode - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id497799835?mt=12 Intro to App Development with Swift curriculum: Teacher - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1118577558?mt=11 & Student - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1118575552?mt=11

Scratch - https://scratch.mit.edu/

Giovanna's published work

Laboratorio di FISICA - https://itunes.apple.com/it/book/laboratorio-di-fisica/id591344955?mt=11

Nooo ... ma davvero?! - https://itunes.apple.com/it/book/nooo-ma-davvero/id1002671998?mt=11

Laboratorio di geometria - https://itunes.apple.com/it/course/laboratorio-di-geometria/id1077044868

Ask Swift Teacher

Ask a question of the Swift Teacher community. Tweet your questions to @_SwiftTeacher - https://twitter.com/_SwiftTeacher using the #askSwiftTeacher hashtag or in the ask Swift Teacher channel in the Swift Teacher Slack Team (join using the link below).

Join the Swift Teachers Slack Channel - http://swiftteacher.me

You can find also find the show notes and other information on the Swift Teacher blog:

Swift Teacher Blog - http://www.swiftteacher.org/podcast

In this episode I had an insightful discussion with Kane Pittard. Kane is a Humanities and computer science teacher from Butler College in Butler, WA. He is responsible for the creation and ongoing development of the Butler College IT teaching program. Kane’s passion is using digital learning across all learning areas. Previous to becoming a teacher in 2013, he worked as a systems administrator and owned computer consulting business.

I would to thank Kane for taking time away from his family, work, and fighting the time difference to talk with me on the podcast.

Kanes's school - https://www.butlercollege.wa.edu.au/

Twitter: @kanepittard - https://twitter.com/kanepittard

Show links

Swift - https://swift.org/

BYOD - Bring Your Own Device - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_your_own_device ICT - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_communications_technology Digital Natives - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_native

Swift Playgrounds - https://appsto.re/us/eHUj2.i

Learn to Code 1 & 2 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/swift-playgrounds-learn-to/id1118578018?mt=11

Learn to Code 3 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/swift-playgrounds-learn-to/id1173709121?mt=11

Scratch - https://scratch.mit.edu/

Xcode - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id497799835?mt=12 Into to App Development with Swift curriculum [Teacher] - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1118577558?mt=11) & [Student] - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1118575552?mt=11) Fraser Speirs - Episode 8 - https://www.swiftteacher.org/podcast/2017/6/13/8-swift-makes-it-very-hard-to-get-it-right-by-accident-which-is-good-with-fraser-speirs Ada Programming Language - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language) Python - https://www.python.org/

Daniel Budd - Episode 4 - https://www.swiftteacher.org/podcast/2017/4/18/4-create-engaging-content-in-swift-with-daniel-budd

David Brown - Episode 9 - https://www.swiftteacher.org/podcast/2017/6/21/9-i-have-a-student-who-says-leave-me-alone-i-want-to-solve-it-with-david-brown Apple's Human Interface Guideline (aka HIG) - https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/overview/design-principles/

Keynote - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/keynote/id361285480?mt=8 Douglas Kiang - Episode 2 - https://www.swiftteacher.org/podcast/2017/3/14/2-i-think-its-about-the-friendliest-language-ive-ever-coded-in-with-douglas-kiang iOS Read Screen Accessiblity Feature - https://www.howtogeek.com/258218/how-to-make-your-ios-device-read-articles-books-and-more-out-loud-to-you/

Popplet - https://popplet.com/

Sphero - http://www.sphero.com/

Lego Mindstorms - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms Parrot Drone - https://www.parrot.com/us/drones#fly-and-film-an-adventure-with-your-drone John Hattie - University of Melbourne - https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person428067

Favorite Podcasts or Media

You Should Learn to Program: Christian Genco - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfBWk4nw440

The History of Rome - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-rome/id261654474?mt=2

Ancient Greek History - https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/ancient-greek-history-audio/id341651987?mt=10

Ask Swift Teacher

Ask a question of the Swift Teacher community. Tweet your questions to @_SwiftTeacher - https://twitter.com/_SwiftTeacher using the #askSwiftTeacher hashtag or in the ask Swift Teacher channel in the Swift Teacher Slack Team (join using the link below).

Join the Swift Teachers Slack Channel - http://swiftteacher.me

You can find also find the show notes and other information on the Swift Teacher blog:

[Swift Teacher Blog - http://www.swiftteacher.org/podcast

I would like to share the interesting discussion I had with Carlos Garcia. Carlos lives in Valencia, Spain and has an Audiovisual Communication degree for Universidad de Valencia and a Master’s in Secondary Education. Carlos worked for ten years as a scriptwriter for television series of comedy, drama, and entertainment programms. After working those ten years in TV, Carlos changed careers and moved into the exciting world of teaching. In addition to being a teacher, Carlos is the Communication and Innovation department coordinator so he has two different points of view as an educator and he loves it. Carlos works hard to empower his students through the use of the technology in the classroom because he is deeply convinced of the power of Apple resources for the students in the 21st century classroom.

I would like to thank Carlos for taking time out of his busy schedule to talk with me.

Carlos’ school - http://www.colintlev.net/es

Twitter: @garcialcubo - https://twitter.com/garcialcubo

Carlos' YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/CarlosGarcíaGarcía

Chicken and the Egg iTunes U course - It is a private course. Please contact Carlos for access.

Show links

Apple Distinguished Educator program - http://www.apple.com/education/apple-distinguished-educator/

Everyone Can Code - https://www.apple.com/everyone-can-code/

Swift - https://swift.org/

Swift Open Source - https://swift.org/about/#swiftorg-and-open-source

Server-side Swift - https://swift.org/server-apis/

Swift Playgrounds - https://appsto.re/us/eHUj2.i

Learn to Code 1 & 2 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/swift-playgrounds-learn-to/id1118578018?mt=11

Learn to Code 3 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/swift-playgrounds-learn-to/id1173709121?mt=11

Into to App Development with Swift curriculum - Teacher - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1118577558?mt=11 & Student - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1118575552?mt=11

App Development with Swift - Teacher - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1219118093?mt=11 & Student - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1219117996?mt=11

Swift Teacher - Episode 8 - https://www.swiftteacher.org/podcast/2017/6/13/8-swift-makes-it-very-hard-to-get-it-right-by-accident-which-is-good-with-fraser-speirs

A Swift Time to Code - https://itun.es/us/-5Lu7

Code Spark Academy - http://codespark.org/

Tynker - https://www.tynker.com/

Tynker has partnered with Apple - https://9to5mac.com/2017/05/01/apple-tynker-coding-lessons/?pushup=1

Blue Bot - https://www.bee-bot.us/bluebot.html

Lego Mindstorms - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms Clips - https://appsto.re/us/Jufsib.i

search #ClassroomClips on Twitter - https://twitter.com/search?q=%23classroomclips&src=tyah

Favorite Podcasts

Apple Coding - https://itunes.apple.com/es/podcast/apple-coding/id1000199274?mt=2

hacia falta - https://itunes.apple.com/es/podcast/hac%C3%ADafalta/id670298410?mt=2

Join the Swift Teachers Slack Channel - http://swiftteacher.me

You can find also find the show notes and other information on my blog:

Swift Teacher Blog - http://www.swiftteacher.org/podcast

I am pleased to share the great and varied conversation I had with Chris Barnabei. Chris is a librarian and technology integration specialist for a STEM high school in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He supervises the school's 1:1 iPad program, library/makerspace, and professional development initiatives. In addition, Chris teaches classes in Swift programming, iOS app development, and video production. Coding has been a recent interest of his, and along with a team of students published an app to the App Store for his school in June 2016. Chris attended WWDC16 on an educator scholarship, and presented a TEDx talk advocating for coding in K-12 schools. He started his teaching career as an elementary librarian in 2007. Since then, instructional technology has been a passion of his, and he has championed its use as vehicle for student engagement, achievement, and positive school reform.

A special to thanks Chris for taking time out of his schedule to talk with me on the podcast.

Chris's school - http://casdonline.org/education/school/school.php?sectionid=2591 Twitter: @ChrisBarnabei - https://twitter.com/chrisbarnabei

CMS Now app

Show links

Apple Distinguished Educator program - http://www.apple.com/education/apple-distinguished-educator/

TEDx Lancaster - http://www.tedxlancaster.com/

STEM education - http://www.stemedcoalition.org/

Swift](https://swift.org/)

Rochester Institute of Technology - RIT - http://www.rit.edu/

App Stories - Episode 15 - https://appstories.net/episodes/15/

stackoverflow - https://stackoverflow.com/

Auxy - http://auxy.co/

Overcast - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/overcast-podcast-player/id888422857?mt=8 Swift Playgrounds - https://appsto.re/us/eHUj2.i

Learn to Code 1 & 2 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/swift-playgrounds-learn-to/id1118578018?mt=11

Learn to Code 3 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/swift-playgrounds-learn-to/id1173709121?mt=11

Python - https://www.python.org/

Into to App Development with Swift curriculum - Teacher - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1118577558?mt=11 & Student - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1118575552?mt=11

App Development with Swift - Teacher - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1219118093?mt=11 & Student - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1219117996?mt=11

Swift Teacher - Episode 8 - https://www.swiftteacher.org/podcast/2017/6/13/8-swift-makes-it-very-hard-to-get-it-right-by-accident-which-is-good-with-fraser-speirs Keynote - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/keynote/id361285480?mt=8 JavaScript - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript

HTML - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML)

CloudKit - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/cloudkit

Jamf Pro - https://www.jamf.com/lp/jamf-pro/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw--DLBRCNARIsAFIwR27FxaFvjvNUp6NdCKeHuFBr6Bf3ItsSQ8nwDTOirRWnEpm_qfnOPlsaAix5EALw_wcB

Douglas Kiang - Twitter - https://twitter.com/dkiang

Join the Swift Teachers Slack Channel - http://swiftteacher.me

You can find also find the show notes and other information on my blog:

Swift Teacher Blog - http://www.swiftteacher.org/podcast

I am excited to share the great and varied conversation I had with David Brown. David is the Education Technology Integrator at St Mary’s Anglican Girls’ School located in Karrinyup in Perth Western Australia and is passionate about using technology to improve student learning. He has been at SMAGS since 2015 and his main role is to develop and assist staff in enhancing pedagogical teaching practices with the use of technology. He also teaches digital technology classes which is where he has been using Xcode and Swift since 2015.

I would like to thank David for taking time out of his busy school, teaching, running, and blogging (I especially love the podcasting posts) activities to speak to me on the podcast.

David's Site - https://superdavey.com

Twitter: @superdavey - https://twitter.com/superdavey

Show links

St. Mary's Anglican School - http://www.stmarys.wa.edu.au/

Lego Mindstorms - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms

Arduino - https://www.adafruit.com/category/17

Apple's AR Kit - https://developer.apple.com/arkit/

Ole Begemann - Playground: What's new in Swift 4 - https://oleb.net/blog/2017/05/whats-new-in-swift-4-playground/

Swift language - https://swift.org

Swift Evolution - https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution

Swift Unwrapped - https://spec.fm/podcasts/swift-unwrapped

Swift Playgrounds - https://appsto.re/us/eHUj2.i

Learn to Code 1 & 2 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/swift-playgrounds-learn-to/id1118578018?mt=11

Learn to Code 3 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/swift-playgrounds-learn-to/id1173709121?mt=11

Python - https://www.python.org/

Intro to App Development with Swift curriculum

Teacher - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1118577558?mt=11 Student - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1118575552?mt=11

App Development with Swift

Teacher - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1219118093?mt=11 Student - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1219117996?mt=11

Favorite Podcasts

Accidental Tech Podcast - http://atp.fm

Connected - https://www.relay.fm/connected Cortex - https://www.relay.fm/cortex

The Talk Show - https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/

Hello Internet - http://www.hellointernet.fm/

Science Versus - https://gimletmedia.com/science-vs/

Join the Swift Teachers Slack Group - mailto:[email protected]

You can find also find the show notes and other information on my blog:

http://www.swiftteacher.org/podcast

I am pleased to share my conversation with Fraser Speirs in this episode. Fraser is the Head of Secondary at Cedars School of Excellence in Greenock, Scotland. Before that, he was the Head of Computing and IT responsible for the school’s Computer Science education and IT infrastructure.

I would like to thank Fraser for taking time out of his busy teaching, blogging, and podcasting schedule to share his expertise and knowledge.

Fraser's Blog - http://speirs.org

Out of School Podcast - http://outofschool.net

Canvas Podcast - http://relay.fm/canvas

Twitter: @fraserspeirs - https://twitter.com/fraserspeirs

Show links

“A Year of Teaching Swift” - http://www.speirs.org/blog/2017/6/1/a-year-of-teaching-swift

Swift language - https://swift.org

Swift Playgrounds - https://appsto.re/us/eHUj2.i

Learn to Code 1 & 2 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/swift-playgrounds-learn-to/id1118578018?mt=11

Learn to Code 3 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/swift-playgrounds-learn-to/id1173709121?mt=11

Teaching App Development with Swift - http://swifteducation.github.io

Intro to App Development with Swift curriculum

Teacher - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1118577558?mt=11 Student - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1118575552?mt=11

App Development with Swift

Teacher - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1219118093?mt=11 Student - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1219117996?mt=11

Server-side Swift - https://swift.org/server-apis/

Visual Basic - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic

Ruby programming language - https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

Python - https://www.python.org/

Hopscotch - https://appsto.re/us/f2cYK.i

Everyone Can Code K - 5 with Tynker - https://www.tynker.com/everyone-can-code/

Get Started with Code 1 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/get-started-with-code-1/id1226776727?mt=11

Get Started with Code 2 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/get-started-with-code-2/id1226776857?mt=11

Business Professionals of America - http://www.bpa.org

Branson Boggia: Mobile App Development National Champion - http://tctcspotlight.com/1835/news/tctc-bpa-competes-in-orlando/

Marco Arment: Twitter - https://twitter.com/marcoarment & website - https://marco.org/

Bradley Chambers: @bradleychambers - https://twitter.com/bradleychambers

Federrico Viticci: @viticci - https://twitter.com/viticci

Favorite Podcasts

Ctrl-Walt-Delete - https://www.theverge.com/ctrl-walt-delete

Cortex - https://www.relay.fm/cortex

The West Wing Weekly - http://thewestwingweekly.com/

50 Things that Made the Modern Economy - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04b1g3c/episodes/downloads

Freakonomics Radio Podcast - http://freakonomics.com/

Join the Swift Teachers Slack Group - mailto:[email protected]

You can find also find the show notes and other information on my blog:

Swift Teacher Blog - http://www.swiftteacher.org/podcast

I am happy to share my conversation with Mike Yakubovsky. Mike is the STEM Coordinator and lead engineering teacher at Coppell High School, a 1:1 iPad Apple Distinguished School. He has been with CISD since 2003 and started the CHS School of Engineering in 2006. The School of Engineering is a 4-year pre-college engineering program focusing on design in which learners work on projects that prepare them for college STEM disciplines. Activities expose learners to design, applications of math and science, electronics, kinematics, and coding. Learners have begun Swift Playgrounds and Swift as a core component of their coding instruction. In addition to teaching, Mike is the department Instructional Coach.

Mike was honored as an Apple Distinguished Educator in the spring of 2017. In 2015, the Metroplex Technology Business Council named Mike the Tech Titan of the Future for High Schools. Prior to that, Mike was presented with the Excellence in Engineering Education award from National Instruments and was named a runner up for the Discover Educator Award.

Mike is the advisor for several organizations related to the Engineering program: Society of Women Engineers, Society of Minority Engineers, and the Coppell Solar Racing Team.

I would like to thank Mike for taking time out of his busy teaching and engineering coaching schedule.

Coppell School of Engineering - http://www.coppellisd.com/engineering Mike Yakubovsky - http://www.coppellisd.com/Domain/377

Coppell Engineering on Facebook - http://www.coppellisd.com/engineering Mike - Twitter - https://twitter.com/myakSTEM @CoppellSTEM - https://twitter.com/CoppellSTEM @CoppellSolar - https://twitter.com/CoppellSolar @Coppell_SWE - https://twitter.com/Coppell_SWE

Show links

Apple Distinguished Educators - http://www.apple.com/education/apple-distinguished-educator/

C programming language - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language

Lego Mindstorms - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms

Lab View - http://www.ni.com/en-us/shop/labview.html

Arduino - https://www.arduino.cc

Swift language - https://swift.org

Larry Reiff - https://twitter.com/Mrreiff

Dr. Chris Penny - https://twitter.com/chrispenny

Douglas Kiang - https://twitter.com/dkiang

Swift Playgrounds - https://appsto.re/us/eHUj2.i

Intro to App Development with Swift curriculum: Teacher - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1118577558?mt=11

Student - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1118575552?mt=11

Accidental Tech: Episode 205 - People Don’t Use the Weird Parts - http://atp.fm/episodes/205

Everyone Can Code K - 5 with Tynker - https://www.tynker.com/everyone-can-code/

Favorite Podcasts

Wired Educator Podcast - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-wired-educator-podcast/id974270220?mt=2

Swift Unwrapped - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/swift-unwrapped/id1209817203?mt=2

Runtime - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/runtime/id1122203945?mt=2

Swift Teacher podcast Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/SwiftTeachers/

Join the Swift Teachers Slack Group - mailto:[email protected]

You can find also find the show notes and other information on my blog:

Swift Teacher Blog - http://www.swiftteacher.org/podcast

_Note: This episode was recorded in my classroom. Please excuse the audio issues we had at times. They were a result of recording in our school._

This is a very special episode I recorded in my classroom. Six of my 11th grade students shared their views on learning to code, the Swift language, the Swift playgrounds app, and other coding related topics. I was really excited to get their feedback and thoughts about this school year so that you could hear their insights. I would like to thank the students that appeared on this episode. I hope you enjoy this episode. Sorry for the audio issues.

Show Links

Swift Playgrounds - https://appsto.re/us/eHUj2.i

Into to App Development with Swift curriculum

Teacher - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1118577558?mt=11

Student - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1118575552?mt=11

You can find also find the show notes and other information on my blog:

Swift Teacher Blog - http://www.swiftteacher.org/podcast

5: 'Your job is to be an expert learner.' with Stacy Sniegowski

In this episode I had a great Swift education conversation with Stacy Sniegowski. After graduating from Purdue University in 2005, with a BS in Mathematics Education and minor in French, Stacy began her career in the Chicago Public School system. Over the next ten years, she worked in the district as a teacher and instructional coach to design learning experiences for K- 12 students and teachers in math, science, engineering, technology and foreign languages. Her training with the New Teacher Center, developed her skills in adult learning, instructional coaching strategies, and mentoring techniques.

For the last two years, Stacy has worked with MobileMakersEdu to support high school teachers to bring mobile app development into their schools and iOS developers to develop their skill sets in instruction. She enjoys working with both educators and software developers from across the US and the globe. To this date, Stacy’s work has advanced the learning of more than 200 teachers and almost 14,000 students.

In her spare time, Stacy works with her husband to run their “creativty clubhouse” business, WholesomeZine, a place for artists to gain 21st century skills to promote their craft. She manages the operations, training, internships and social media for the company, in addition to being a DJ on WholesomeRadio.

I would like to thank Stacy from taking time out of her busy schedule for an insightful and illuminating discussion about developing teachers into Swift programmers and the state of coding with Swift in schools today.

Stacy Sniegowski - Web site - http://www.stacysniegowski.com/

Stacy - Twitter - https://twitter.com/cornzippers

Show links

Mobile Makers Edu - http://mobilemakers.co

Out of School - Episode 210 - https://outofschool.net/2017/02/27/210-interview-with-jesse-chartier/slac

Slack -

Objective-C - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C

You can find also find the show notes and other information on my blog:

Swift Teacher Blog - http://www.swiftteacher.org

I will be co-moderating a very special coding #ADEchat on Twitter this Tuesday evening at 9 pm eastern with @cindyherren. You can participate by using the #ADEchat. We will be discussing coding in k-12 and across the curriculum. We will be sharing ideas, best practices, and resources used in our classrooms. So I hope you will join me and Cindy Herren Tuesday evening at 9 Eastern, that's 6 Pacific, 3 pm Hawaiin time, Wednesday morning 9 am Western Australian time.

Coding chat on Twitter - 9:00 pm EDT, 6:00 pm PDT

#ADEchat

Cindy Herren - https://twitter.com/cindyherren