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- 1. Why You (!) should teach kids how to code Tobias Schraink PyGotham 2017
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- 23. 5 h/ event 1-2 students mentor
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- 26. Why You (!) should teach kids how to code Tobias Schraink PyGotham 2017
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- This is my first full-length talk at a conference, so let me introduce myself. I am Tobias Schraink, A Computational Biologist @NYU’s Institute for computational medicine Have been using Python, my first programming language for 2 years Mentor kids @CoderdojoNYC You can find me on Twitter and Github
- This is my first full-length talk at a conference, so let me introduce myself. I am Tobias Schraink, A Computational Biologist @NYU’s Institute for computational medicine Have been using Python, my first programming language for 2 years Mentor kids @CoderdojoNYC You can find me on Twitter and Github
- This is my first full-length talk at a conference, so let me introduce myself. I am Tobias Schraink, A Computational Biologist @NYU’s Institute for computational medicine Have been using Python, my first programming language for 2 years Mentor kids @CoderdojoNYC You can find me on Twitter and Github
- This is my first full-length talk at a conference, so let me introduce myself. I am Tobias Schraink, A Computational Biologist @NYU’s Institute for computational medicine Have been using Python, my first programming language for 2 years Mentor kids @CoderdojoNYC You can find me on Twitter and Github
- If you are here for a talk discussing the benefits of kids learning how to code – you are in the wrong room!
- If you are here for a talk discussing the benefits of kids learning how to code – you are in the wrong room!
- If you are here for a talk discussing the benefits of kids learning how to code – you are in the wrong room!
- If you are here for a talk discussing the benefits of kids learning how to code – you are in the wrong room!
- Blank slide; Today I am going to suggest to you that you, that teaching children how to code is in your own best interest. Before I do that however, I want to give a short section on what types of teaching styles are common, to set the expectations. Because often people I have talked to have illusions about that already. Outline of intro – essentially says what is teaching: Ways you can teach How you can teach Who you can teach Add section of what kids could mean: which ages? Add section of what teaching means: learning new concepts, refining knowledge…
- Teaching styles Mentoring -more conversational -great Blogpost by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis Vs Frontal-style teaching -More information-dense
- Teaching styles One-to-one Vs One-to-many So to sum this up, teaching kids does not necessitate you to have 1 or 20 students, it does not mean you have to give a lecture or you have to mentor one-on-one. You should choose a program that you think can be comfortable with.
- What ages/backgrounds are kids The kids can range from 7 years old to high-schoolers, different programs have different crowds.
- Blank slide; Now that I have gone and explained the different styles of teaching, it’s time to talk about the goodies. What do you get out of it? And if you think back to my self-introduction, I have only been using python seriously for about 2 years. After about a year of coding, I decided I wanted to try out teaching how to code. So as early as you can get yourself to teach, do it. And teaching kids is very suitable for that.
- Find your bugs! Your weak spots in the language or concepts that you teach. You don’t have to watch countless TED talks to know that kids are naturally inquisitive. Especially kids that want to learn coding.
- This will help boost your confidence. One kid I helped write a simple shopping list manager in python. He learned how to take keyboard input, how to read from and write to a file and he learned some control flow. And that just felt good.
- Teaching/ mentoring is good for your career: Even as a professional, teaching can do you good. In fact there is a great blog post by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis in which he talks about the benefits of mentoring and how to mentor. In any sufficiently long enough career, so barring Mr. Scaramucci, pretty much anyone, you will find yourself in a position where there are fellow employees which could greatly benefit from learning some of your skills. This comes with a whole bunch of caveats, it’s truly non-trivial. But luckily organisations that let you teach children commonly know about these caveats and teach you how to teach.
- Blank slide; Now that I have gone and explained the different styles of teaching, it’s time to talk about the goodies. What do you get out of it? And if you think back to my self-introduction, I have only been using python seriously for about 2 years. After about a year of coding, I decided I wanted to try out teaching how to code. So as early as you can get yourself to teach, do it. And teaching kids is very suitable for that.
- Kids are inspirational, And the moment that really clicked for me was when I was talking to a fellow student from my coding club. We were giving a coding session for some high school kids that we had been pretty stressed about beforehand and we both agreed that it was so much easier to teach these highschoolers than PhD students in Biology. Contrary to expecations many people have, kids, especially at these events, have a much lower frustration barrier than adults When they hit an error, they often try three more times, because maybe it works.
- Teaching and mentoring can be very frustrating.
- But luckily the organizations that teach kids to code have your back. They know the caveats – the children are not the only ones receiving guidance. They will also relieve the pressure to perform off you.
- Now that you know WHY and Why kids, only the Where remains. The reason I have this section is so that you know what kind of offers there are out there. At the end there will be a slide with lots of links to different offers.
- CoderDojoNYC has events every other month. The events are always on the weekend