Teaching Python

Teaching Python

By Sean Tibor and Kelly ParedesTechnologyEducation
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Teaching Python episodes

  • Episode 24: Avoiding the Summer Slide (For Teachers)

    Many teachers give advice to parents on how to keep kids engaged during the summer. Sean and Kelly take their own advice and apply it to teachers and professional development. In this episode, we discuss how to avoid the “Summer Slide” and what we are doing to keep on learning.

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    • Amazon.com: Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears (Singularity Series Book 1) eBook: William Hertling: Kindle Store
    — The book that Kelly skipped (and apparently Sean read in 2013)
  • Amazon.com: A.I. Apocalypse (Singularity Series Book 2) eBook: William Hertling: Gateway
    • — Kelly's Summer Reading
  • Buy a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B – Raspberry Pi
    • — The new Raspberry Pi 4 computer is out.
  • Cartoon Guide to Statistics 1, Larry Gonick, Woollcott Smith - Amazon.com
  • About - Project Euler
    • — Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems.
  • 4 Ways Your Student Can Avoid the “Summer Slide”
    • — Hearing the final school bell for the year can bring feelings of joy, relief, and...dread? Many students, their parents, and their future teachers know the reality of the so-called “Summer Slide.”
  • Amazon.com: HiLetgo New Version ESP8266 NodeMCU LUA CP2102 ESP-12E Internet WiFi Development Board Open Source Serial Wireless Module Works Great with Arduino IDE/Micropython: Gateway
    • — ESP8266 CP2102 NodeMCU LUA ESP-12E WIFI Serial Wireless Module. Built-in Micro-USB, with flash and reset switches, easy to program. Arduino compatible, works great with the latest Arduino IDE/Mongoose IoT/Micropython
  • Amazon.com: HiLetgo ESP-WROOM-32 ESP32 ESP-32S Development Board 2.4GHz Dual-Mode WiFi + Bluetooth Dual Cores Microcontroller Processor Integrated with Antenna RF AMP Filter AP STA for Arduino IDE: Gateway
    • — 2.4GHz Dual Mode WiFi + Bluetooth Development Board
    Ultra-Low power consumption
  • TinyPICO | Crowd Supply
    • — One more remarkable ESP32 board.
  • PBL Events | PBLWorks
    • — Learn more about PBL, and connect with a worldwide network of educators. We offer events in different locations throughout the year, delivering professional learning opportunities for individuals and small teams.
  • ISTE - EdTech Conference 2019 | Philadelphia, June 23-26
  • Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate Into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills, and Motivation: Saundra Yancy McGuire, Thomas Angelo, Stephanie McGuire: 9781620363164: Amazon.com: Gateway
    • — What is preventing your students from performing according to expectations? Saundra McGuire offers a simple but profound answer: If you teach students how to learn and give them simple, straightforward strategies to use, they can significantly increase their learning and performance.
  • Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners: Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, Karin Morrison: 8601419898244: Amazon.com: Gateway
    • — Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study. Rather than a set of fixed lessons, Visible Thinking is a varied collection of practices, including thinking routines, small sets of questions or a short sequence of steps, as well as the documentation of student thinking.
    31 min
  • Episode 23: Being Reflective: A Year of Learning, Teaching, and Python

    Kelly and Sean both agree that reflecting on your teaching is vital for our growth as educators and learners. In this episode, they take a few moments to reflect on their year, their lessons, their learning, and their progress. “ Learning without reflection is a waste. Reflection without learning is dangerous.”-Confucius

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    • Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners 1, Al Sweigart, eBook - Amazon.com
    — If you’ve ever spent hours renaming files or updating hundreds of spreadsheet cells, you know how tedious tasks like these can be. But what if you could have your computer do them for you?
    In Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, you’ll learn how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand—no prior programming experience required.
  • The Modern Python 3 Bootcamp | Udemy
    • — A Unique Interactive Python Experience With Nearly 200 Exercises and Quizzes
  • Simone Giertz - YouTube
    • — Warning -- not safe for classroom viewing but still funny and interesting!
    Simone's Channel:
    SO HANDY! If you're here for the first time: hi. I like your shirt. I bet your shirt would like me too if it just got to meet me.
    Wait did we get off to a weird start? At least I tried. I give myself 3/5 for effort.
  • Patreon: Teaching Python is creating a podcast for people who teach Python (of course) | Patreon
    • — We set up this Patreon to help offset website fees and to hire a professional audio editor to ensure that our episodes sound great and get posted quickly.
    39 min
  • Episode 22: Talking About Teaching With Meg Ray

    In this episode, Kelly and Sean talk to freelance educational consultant Meg Ray. She was the founding Teacher in Residence at Cornell Tech where she was responsible for the implementation and design of a coaching program for K-8 CS teachers in New York City schools. An experienced middle and high school computer science teacher and special educator, Meg directed the design of the Codesters Python curricula for middle school students and served as a writer for the Computer Science Teachers’ Association K-12 CS Standards and as a special advisor to the K12 CS Framework. She lives in New York.

    Special Guest: Meg Ray.

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    • Codesters: Coding in your Classroom
    — Teach Coding in Your Classroom
    An online learning environment with everything you need to teach students to code
  • Code This Game!: Make Your Game Using Python, Then Break Your Game to Create a New One!: Meg Ray, Keith Zoo: 9781250306692: Amazon.com: Gateway
    • — Make it! Code it! Break it! Mod it!
    Meg Ray's Code This Game! is a nonfiction visual guide, illustrated by Keith Zoo, that teaches young readers, 10-14, how to program and create their very own video game. Each chapter introduces key coding concepts as kids build an action strategy game in Python, an open-source programming language. The book features an innovative stand-up format that allows kids to read, program, and play their game simultaneously.
  • Code This Game! | Odd Dot
    • — A nonfiction visual guide that teaches young readers, 10-14, how to program and create their very own video game.
  • Python Jumpstart by Building 10 Apps course - [Talk Python Training - Python tutorials and courses for developers]
    • — Course Summary
    Programming is fun and profitable. Learning to become a software developer should be equally fun! This course will teach you everything you need to know about the Python language all the while building interesting and engaging applications.
    52 min
  • Episode 21: Agriculture and AI with FarmFemmes

    In this episode, Sean and Kelly chat with Karen Hildebrand and Teresa Vallotton from FarmFemmes. These two ladies are using technology to inspire the next generation of farmers. By offering one-day tech camps, and hosting international students, Karen and Teresa hope to bring a new life and meaning to an agricultural career. Their hope is to bring their “technical knowledge and a relateable voice to showcase the unique ways women can contribute to agriculture in the 21st century.”

    Dr. Karen Hildebrand has a PhD in Information Systems specializing in Data Mining, but we just call her Karen. Teresa coached K-12 teachers, taught high school math and was chosen as Sioux Falls, SD Teacher of the Year.

    Special Guests: Karen Hildebrand and Teresa Vallotton.

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    • Farm Femmes
    — Farm Femmes is a result of the ideas we have been generating for years, and really, cultivating for our entire lives.  We hope to use our hands on experiences, technical knowledge and a relate-able voice to showcase the unique ways women can contribute to agriculture in the 21st century. 
  • AWS Educate
    • — With the increasing demand for cloud employees, AWS Educate provides an academic gateway for the next generation of IT and cloud professionals. AWS Educate is Amazon’s global initiative to provide students and educators with the resources needed to accelerate cloud-related learning.
  • Patreon - Teaching Python
    • — We set up this Patreon to help offset website fees and to hire a professional audio editor to ensure that our episodes sound great and get posted quickly.
  • CBC Article: Sister duo heading to Winnipeg to teach kids about artificial intelligence in agriculture | CBC News
    • — This July, tech-savvy kids will be able to learn the basics of artificial intelligence in just a day, as farming educators Karen Hildebrand and Teresa Vallotton bring their AI in a Day summer camp to Winnipeg for the first time.
  • FarmFemmes (@FarmFemmes) | Twitter
    • — Follow Farm Femmes on Twitter
    37 min
  • Episode 20: Building Your Python PLN (Personal Learning Network)

    In this episode, Sean and Kelly discuss the importance of having a Personal Learning Network or PLN, why we use it, and how to develop one for your computer science teaching with Python.

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    • adafruit industries (@adafruit) | Twitter
    — adafruit industries
    Verified account
    @adafruit
    Electronics, community, art, learning, and sharing.
  • ISTE (@iste) | Twitter
    • — ISTE
    @iste
    Dreaming big. Transforming teaching. Empowering learners. #ISTE19 #ISTEturns40
  • Slack for Python Educators
    • — A Slack workspace to share ideas and connect with other Python educators.
  • edtechchat hashtag on Twitter
    • — Tweets from the weekly #edtechchat
  • Support Us on Patreon
    • — Teaching Python is creating a podcast for people who teach Python (of course) | Patreon
    21 min
  • Episode 19: No Longer PyCon Newbies

    This week, Kelly and Sean attended their first ever PyCon in Cleveland, Ohio. Before we flew home, we recorded our thoughts and reflections on this amazing experience. We also interviewed educator attendees from places like the US Coast Guard Academy, Stanford University, and the American Museum of Natural History.

    Join us as we reflect on all the amazing people we've met and things we've seen at #PyCon2019.

    Special Guest: Gabrielle Rabinowitz.

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    • PyCon2019 List on Twitter
    — People we've met at PyCon2019
  • Education Summit - Adopting QPython in smartphones for teaching/learning computational science and engineering - YouTube
  • Meg Ray - Keynote - PyCon 2019 - YouTube
    • — The Zen of Python Open Education Resources
  • Charles R. Severance - Inside the World's Largest Python Course on Coursera - PyCon 2019 - YouTube
    • — Dr. Chuck!
  • Neha Gupta, Jessica Jahnke - Building a Community for Girls with Python - PyCon 2019 - YouTube
  • PyCon 2019 - YouTube
    • — Home for all PyCon2019 Videos
  • Sponsor us on Patreon
    • 39 min
  • Episode 18: Mini-Episode: Pre-PyCon Top 5

    Kelly and Sean are headed to their first PyCon next week. In this special mini-episode, they discuss their Top 5 things that they're looking forward to at the conference. Are you going? Want to meet up with us? Send us a tweet!

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    • Become a Patron of Teaching Python
    — Let's replace Sean as the audio editor of our podcasts. Your ears will thank you!
  • Python Education Summit @ PyCon | PyCon 2019 in Cleveland, Ohio
    • — In 2019, PyCon will be holding its seventh annual Python Education Summit. The Summit is a gathering of teachers and educators focused on bringing coding literacy, through Python, to as broad a group of audiences as possible. We invite educators from all venues to consider joining the discussion, share insights, learn new techniques and tools and generally share their passion for education. We are looking for educators from many venues: authors; schools, colleges, universities; community-based workshops; online programs; and government. Not only will we have a wide array of full-blown talks, we will also have a round of lightning talks!
  • Presentation: Getting Down with Pynguin | PyCon 2019 in Cleveland, Ohio
    • — Pynguin is a python-based turtle graphics application. It combines an editor, interactive interpreter, and graphics display area. A group of high school / community college students from Arlington, Virginia will be doing a curriculum sprint on a Pynguin tutorial as part of the Getting Down with ... Series. This sprint will start on Thursday afternoon as part of the Education Summit.
  • Open Spaces | PyCon 2019 in Cleveland, Ohio
    • — Open Spaces are self-organizing one-hour meetup-like events which happen in parallel with the main conference. They are held in meeting rooms within the PyCon convention center.
    8 min
  • Episode 17: Abstraction and Analytical Thinking

    Kelly and Sean get motivation from Michael Kennedy’s Talk Python to Me podcast episode Beginners and Experts. Where Michaels and the panelists discuss, how do you go about attacking a problem? In this episode, Kelly and Sean digest abstraction and analytical thinking in the school setting and how computational thinking plays a part in all this. They discuss the activities that are used to help promote these skills.

    Sponsored By:

    • Patreon: Want to hear more episodes from Kelly and Sean? Support us on Patreon so we can hire an audio editor!

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    • Information Fluency | Global Digital Citizen Foundation
    — The 5As of Information Fluency are Ask, Acquire, Analyze, Apply, and Assess. This video shows how they can help you master the staggering quantity of online information we face every day.
  • Homepage
    • — WE TRANSFORM LEARNING AROUND THE WORLD THROUGH
    OUR APPS, RESOURCES, PROFESSIONAL LEARNING,
    CONSULTANCY AND FOUNDATION.
  • Abstraction | Teaching London Computing: A RESOURCE HUB from CAS LONDON & CS4FN
    • — Abstraction is a way to make problems or systems easier to think about. It simply involves hiding detail – removing unnecessary complexity. The skill is in choosing the right detail to hide so that the problem becomes easier without losing anything that is important. It is used as a way to make it easier to create complex algorithms, as well as whole systems. A key part of it is in choosing a good representation of a system. Different representations make different things easy to do.
  • The 5th ‘C’ of 21st Century Skills? Try Computational Thinking (Not Coding) | EdSurge News
    • — Does current K-12 education equip every student with the requisite skills to become innovators and problem-solvers, or even informed citizens, to succeed in this world with pervasive computing?
  • Support Teaching Python on Patreon
    • — We set up this Patreon to help offset website fees and to hire a professional audio editor to ensure that our episodes sound great and get posted quickly. When we reach $100 per month, we're going to set up a monthly Teaching Python conference call for patrons.
    48 min
  • Episode 16: When Philosophy and Python COLLIDE! - Part 2

    Sean and Kelly continue their conversation about the philosophy and ethics of machine learning and artificial intelligence in Python. This episode focuses more on resources and tools for AI learning after last episode's focus on philosophy and ethics.

    Sponsored By:

    • Patreon: Want to hear more episodes from Kelly and Sean? Support us on Patreon so we can hire an audio editor!

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    • What is Amazon Machine Learning? - Amazon Machine Learning
    — Amazon Machine Learning (Amazon ML) is a robust, cloud-based service that makes it easy for developers of all skill levels to use machine learning technology.
  • Build a PID Controller with Python – Onion
    • — This week we‘ll be learning how to build a PID Controller using Python, the Omega2, and our recently released ADC Expansion. We’re going to use our PID Controller to keep an incubator at a constant temperature, but this setup can be easily modified and the code reused for your own purposes! 
  • The Difference Between YouTube’s Automatic Captions, DIY Captions, and 3Play Media Captions – 3Play Media
    • — Have you ever watched a seemingly innocuous video with YouTube’s automatic captions? If not, go check it out.
  • Experiments with style transfer
    • — Style transfer is the technique of recomposing images in the style of other images. These were mostly created using Justin Johnson’s code based on the paper by Gatys, Ecker, and Bethge demonstrating a method for restyling images using convolutional neural networks.
  • New Sims - PhET Simulations
    • — By converting our sims to HTML5, we make them seamlessly available across platforms and devices. Whether you have laptops, iPads, chromebooks, or BYOD, your favorite PhET sims are always right at your fingertips.
  • New App Makes It Easier to Colorize Old Photos | Smart News | Smithsonian
    • — The software combines human input and a sophisticated neural network to make historical images pop
  • Jason Yosinski
    • — Deep neural networks have recently been producing amazing results! But how do they do what they do? Historically, they have been thought of as “black boxes”, meaning that their inner workings were mysterious and inscrutable. Recently, we and others have started shinning light into these black boxes to better understand exactly what each neuron has learned and thus what computation it is performing.
  • Convolution -- from Wolfram MathWorld
    • — A convolution is an integral that expresses the amount of overlap of one function as it is shifted over another function .
  • TensorSpace.js
    • — Interactive
    Use Keras-like API to build interactive models in browsers
    Intuitive
    Visualize the information from intermediate inferences
    Integrative
    Support pre-trained models from TensorFlow, Keras, TensorFlow.js
  • A Neural Network Playground
    • — Tinker With a Neural Network Right Here in Your Browser.
    Don’t Worry, You Can’t Break It. We Promise.
  • Image Kernels explained visually
    • — An image kernel is a small matrix used to apply effects like the ones you might find in Photoshop or Gimp, such as blurring, sharpening, outlining or embossing. They're also used in machine learning for 'feature extraction', a technique for determining the most important portions of an image.
  • (77) Convolutional Neural Network Visualization by Otavio Good - YouTube
    • — Cropped and edited video-only excerpt of a great talk given by Otavio Good. Full talk titled "A visual and intuitive understanding of deep learning"
  • Like Animals, AI Is Learning From Experience
    • — Trial and error is one of the most fundamental learning strategies employed by animals, and we’re increasingly using it to teach intelligent machines too. Boosting the flow of ideas between biologists and computer scientists studying the approach could solve mysteries in animal cognition and help develop powerful new algorithms, say researchers.
  • (77) Numbers in Python Version 3 || Python Tutorial || Learn Python Programming - YouTube
    • — Today we talk about the different types of numbers available in Python version 3. There are three types of numbers in Python V3: ints, floats and complex numbers.
  • Mate Labs | Machine Learning for You
    • — Welcome to Mateverse: The Machine Learning Platform engineered for business professionals.Use Mateverse to craft tailored Machine Learning and Deep Learning models in a matter of minutes without writing a single line of code.
  • FAU Colab Notebook - Colaboratory
    • — Shared with permission from Elan Barenholtz (THANKS!)
    45 min
  • Episode 15: When Philosophy and Python COLLIDE! - Part 1

    After a two day workshop on AI and Deep Learning, Kelly and Sean get philosophical about Python. From deep fakes to logical proofs to future non-driving generations that rely on self-driving cars, they'll explore the close relationship between computer science, ethics, and philosophy

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    • Pine Crest Innovation Institute
  • Department of Philosophy - Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Carnegie Mellon University
    • — Our vision of philosophy is interdisciplinary, rigorous, applied and relevant.
    We do research on the foundations of science, computation, mathematics, rationality, causation, cognitive science, and other disciplines. We publish in philosophy, mathematics, computer science, biology, medicine, neuroscience, statistics, social science, educational research, linguistics, and other disciplines.
  • Kelly's Jupyter Notebook
  • About the MPCR | Machine Perception and Cognitive Robotics
    • — The Machine Perception and Cognitive Robotic Lab (MPCR) is dedicated to applying, creating, and merging cutting edge technology across all disciplines.
  • micro:bit holder by geekmomprojects - Thingiverse
    • — This stand holds 20 micro:bit boards vertically. It's a good way to organize and quickly count the micro:bit boards in a classroom setting.
    41 min

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