At the risk of repeating myself / being annoying - the communities that have been mentioned are engaged in teacher training and also very friendly. I would strongly encourage you to reach out to communities that have a track record of working in K-12!
Best, Dav On Thu, Mar 7, 2019, 3:08 AM Anelda van der Walt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dav, Sarah! > > Thanks so much for these incredibly interesting resources. This made me > realise again how important it is to take context into consideration when > developing courses. I think there's a lot here that may be useful, but I > also realise that a very small percentage of South African learners have > the kind of exposure that is for example spoken about in the AI4K12 > materials. Still very interesting. > > I specifically found this resource relevant and potentially of interest to > people who are teaching the Carpentries Spreadsheet lesson to complete data > novices - https://databasic.io/en/culture/paper-spreadsheet. I might even > try this in our upcoming Data Carpentry workshop in two weeks' time. > > A related question - does anyone know of intro to data science materials > for teachers? I expect these will focus a lot on explaining why it is > important to learn (and teach) data science concepts and skills. From the > materials that was posted here, I immediately realised that teachers may be > more of a stumbling block than the kids' lack of prior exposure. Not to > criticise teachers, but they are already way over-worked and under-payed... > > Thanks, > > Anelda > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 5:23 PM Dav Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The bootstrap community also has done a ton of work on computing-focused >> education, including aligning modules with math standards, etc. (US based, >> AFAIK, but probably easy to adapt) They've gotten great empirical results. >> They are very friendly. You can find them on the web here: >> >> https://www.bootstrapworld.org/ >> >> There are social media links there and they're quite responsive. >> >> There's also a more data journalism angle, for example the Data >> Storytelling Studio / Data Murals out of https://datatherapy.org/, and >> also some of the projects at the Emerson Engagement Lab: >> https://elab.emerson.edu/projects >> >> FWIW, my sense is that the carpentries materials will be less effective >> than targeted curricula for high school, but also it's probably dependent >> on the teacher. As always in education, you do what you can. >> >> I'm actually quite interested in this topic, so happy to brainstorm more >> or even contribute (though I'm fairly constrained right now in terms of >> free time). >> >> Best, >> D >> >> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 9:54 AM Sarah Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Anelda, >>> >>> There's a group of academics and K-12 teachers working on Artificial >>> Intelligence curricula for Kindergarten-high school learners. They have a >>> lot of resources: AI4K12.org. I attended an event in the fall where they >>> had k-12 techers summarize what students at each age tend to know and be >>> able to learn. The materials for high schoolers are available from this >>> page: >>> https://github.com/touretzkyds/ai4k12/wiki/2018-Fall-Symposium-Materials >>> . >>> >>> *Sarah M Brown, PhD* >>> sarahmbrown.org >>> Data Sciences Postdoctoral Research Associate >>> Brown University >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 3:53 AM Anelda van der Walt < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Dear community, >>>> >>>> Colleagues of mine (copied here) have received funding from the SA >>>> government to run an introduction to data science course for high school >>>> learners (16 & 17 years old). We had some preliminary discussions about >>>> content, but I have no experience with that age group - what they know and >>>> don't know and how applicable the Carpentries materials might be to them. >>>> >>>> They specifically want to focus on Python. >>>> >>>> The course will run in July and they'll also host a datathon in >>>> December, where the learners will have an opportunity to participate in a >>>> competition to show off their skills. This means there is an opportunity to >>>> continue working with the learners between July and December, but taking >>>> their school work into consideration. >>>> >>>> Does anybody have a curriculum that have been taught to that age group >>>> that could help them think through their own curriculum? Any advice, >>>> resources, pointers would be greatly appreciated. >>>> >>>> Thanks as always! >>>> >>>> Anelda >>>> >>> *The Carpentries <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/latest>* / discuss / > see discussions <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss> + > participants <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members> + > delivery > options <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription> > Permalink > <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T5349a7f93d3d8148-Me03f6a0d3c0155808677fe6d> > ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T5349a7f93d3d8148-Medd807e6b9dac8bb2a2a4ed8 Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
