Hi everyone,
There are thousands of "best albums of all time" and "books to read
before you die" lists out there, but I've never seen a "top 100 lessons"
list. Similarly, lots of people write movie reviews and theater reviews
- when's the last time you read a lesson review written by a
knowledgeable critic (as opposed to a fawning or disgruntled
undergrad)? Video sharing sites make it feasible, and I'd like to think
that the practice you had critiquing each others' lessons in Software
Carpentry instructor training gave you some of the background and skills
you need to analyze and evaluate teaching.
So I think it's pretty cool that Jonathan would spot the similarities
between her approach and ours, and Bernhard would respond by analyzing
the differences in her approach in terms of her audience - that sort of
discussion is what's going to improve our teaching. The next step, if
someone has time, is to send a PR that adds a section to
git-novice/discussion.md on "Other Lessons" with a link and a few
sentences describing it and its strengths and shortcomings as we see
them. That, and reviews of other people's lessons in other lessons of
ours, would help our learners a lot, and maybe (hopefully) be a way to
do some jugyokenkyu of our own (see
http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/09/building-better-teachers.html).
Thank you both for this - it was a nice thing to wake up to.
Cheers,
Greg
On 2015-05-15 10:42 PM, Bernhard Konrad wrote:
Hi,
Thank you for sharing this link, this is an inspiring talk. Her
audience is a little different (companies that use DVCS to manage
teams and code review), and I would argue that her approach, in many
ways, is the opposite of how SWC teaches it! For example, she says
that starting with "git init" is "not exactly the most useful way
(...) and generates more questions than answers." [7:20]. Instead she
spends most of the time discussing with the learners their/their
team's workflow to then "start with the whole ideas to solve real
problems." [13:05]
Her workshops are very focused on teams "most of your problems are
social problems - how do you work with your team" [13:30]. I'm not
sure how much of her inspiring approach we can adopt in our setting
where most of our learners (I believe, I don't have the numbers) are
the only author and maintainer of their code. Still, I think there is
are several pieces that we could take from this talk!
Happy Friday indeed :)
Bernhard
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Jonathan Strootman
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I found this video from the recent http://git-merge.com/ conference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYhHi8yK-Is
The instructor states that she is a self-taught teacher, but she
takes an approach to teaching Git that seems really similar to
SC's approach to teaching.
I've only taught Git beginners so far, but there are A LOT of
great ideas and approaches which are very much inline with SC.
Thoughts?
Oh, and Happy Friday!!
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