On Friday, January 20, 2017, kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Greetings from Silicon Forest to this mostly-quiet list. Perhaps listservs > in general have been overtaken in many cases, by technology with a higher > bling factor. > https://medium.com/tag/edtech https://medium.com/tag/python https://hypothes.is/ (highlighting & threaded comments w/ Markdown on anything with a URI (and PDFs)) https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/ "W3C Web Annotation Data Model" ... https://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/edu-sig/ https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig https://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/ (Archives) - Click "[ Thread ]" OR (for additional mailing list URIs): - https://code.activestate.com/lists/python-edu-sig/ - https://marc.info/?l=python-edu-sig - http://python.6.x6.nabble.com/Python-edu-sig-f2103323.html ... Here's an idea: https://westurner.org/wiki/ideas#open-source-mailing-list-extractor > Or maybe it's that listservs (mail lists) are not an obvious vehicle for > blatant advertising whereas Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus and such, all > have obvious ways for marketers to break in. > https://twitter.com/OfficeofEdTech - National Education Technology Plan (NETP): Reimagining the Role of Technology in Education https://tech.ed.gov/netp/ - Higher Education Supplement to the National Education Technology Plan (HIGHEREDNETP): Reimagining the Role of Technology in Higher Education https://tech.ed.gov/higherednetp/ Twitter Hashtags: #edtech #edetech #k12cs #stem #python (Saveable) Twitter Searches: - https://twitter.com/search?q=edtech+python - https://twitter.com/search?q=edutech+python <https://twitter.com/search?q=edtech+python> - https://twitter.com/search?q=k12cs+python - https://twitter.com/search?q=stem+python Twitter lists: - https://twitter.com/westurner/lists/edtech /members - https://twitter.com/IntelEDU/lists/edutech/members - https://twitter.com/IntelEDU/lists/education-it/members > Glad to see about the new release of the physics engine.[1] > - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software) - https://www.blender.org/api/blender_python_api_2_78a_release/ - https://www.blender.org/manual/physics/ - https://www.blender.org/manual/game_engine/python_api/bullet_physics.html (these docs could be much more beginner-friendly) > > Portland has been under a blanket of snow, so the Winter term is off to a > slow start. That's with regard to an after school program I help staff, > more another time (CwK [2]). > > The public school system in Portland is a big fan of MIT Scratch, did I > mention? > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockly (code.org) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_(programming_language) https://twitter.com/search?q=mitscratch https://twitter.com/search?q=edutech+python <https://twitter.com/search?q=edtech+python> https://twitter.com/Amaliny_YoHas/status/814661269898797057 http://edtechnology.co.uk/Article/from-scratch-to-python http://www.omahapython.org/blog/archives/event/building-the-bricklayer-ide "Bricklayer programs produce virtual LEGO, Minecraft, and 3D-printable artifacts." https://bricklayerdotorg.wordpress.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G-wEhvVRBo > Where to next after that, if MIT Scratch is how you started? There's more > than one way forward naturally. However if you've started in the cloud and > are used to accessing the same work from multiple devices, then you'll > probably want to keep working that way, at least sometimes. > > Have most here heard of Codesters already? > > https://www.codesters.com/ > > Codesters provides a platform very like MIT Scratch, by deliberate design, > providing continuity of concepts and skills (sprites and backdrops, drag > and drop tools, sorted by topic) into a Pythonic environment. > The LMS (integrated gradebook) features of Codesters look pretty cool. >From the video, I also like how you can drag-and-drop actual code to the editor. > > https://youtu.be/Q1hj5XvrfTw > > I used the snow days to study up on Finnish history a little, with a spike > in activity on Facebook where I see some of you. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqZSYKJPDN8 (Finnish Leveraxe 2.0) http://www.oph.fi/english/current_issues/101/0/subject_teaching_in_finnish_schools_is_not_being_abolished In order to meet the challenges of the future, the focus is on transversal > (generic) competences and work across school subjects. Collaborative > classroom practices, where pupils may work with several teachers > simultaneously during periods of phenomenon-based project studies are > emphasised. > The pupils should participate each year in at least one such > multidisciplinary learning module. These modules are designed and > implemented locally. The core curriculum also states that the pupils should > be involved in the planning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transversal_(geometry) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transdisciplinarity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdisciplinarity ... It would be really great if we could develop transdisciplinary STEM curriculum tied in with #K12CSFramework: https://k12cs.org/ > Looking forward to a visit from former PSF director and former Pycon > tycoon (used for alliteration) Steve Holden in a week or so. Many readers > here know him. > https://twitter.com/holdenweb https://twitter.com/westurner/lists/python /members > > He's a UKer now living back in the homeland, who is likewise very at home > in the US, had a cool office and apartment (separate addresses) just blocks > from here in recent years. > https://www.raspberrypi.org/curriculum/ http://competency-checklist.appspot.com/ > > Speaking of Pycon, I signed on as a possible co-speaking at two Pycon > talks. > https://us.pycon.org/2016/events/edusummit/ There's a pyvideo "education" tag: http://pyvideo.org/tag/education/ > > Charles Crosse [3] has devised an ingenius business plan he wants to open > source, > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_models_for_open-source_software > plus (and this is what's impressive) a working prototype he's actually > field tested with his own family. > > Basically, it's a way for parents to set it up for unsupervised learning > where junior gets more "lives" (time on the Internet) in exchange for > choosing from "pre-approved activities". Translation: "if you do your math > homework, you'll get more time on the X-Box" > > Whether the proposals fly or not (as talks), I'm optimistic about the > model. The prototype uses a Raspberry Pi as a stand-in router. That's the > shut-off valve. If you don't do your math homework, the router stops > feeding you lives and you X-box loses its net connection (there's a GUI and > everything). > What about emergency xbox communications? > > In addition to Codesters, our program uses Cloud9. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud9_IDE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SageMathCloud https://twitter.com/westurner/status/822162824596226048 "@wstein389 Does nbgrader (for grading @ProjectJupyter notebooks) work with @sagemathcloud? #EdTech" https://github.com/jupyter/nbgrader > > I continue to showcase thekirbster.pythonanywhere.com as a somewhat > functional CRUD application (the skeleton is there) using Flask + Jinja2. > Very minimalist, just showing what a bare bones web application might > consist of. > https://github.com/humiaozuzu/awesome-flask https://github.com/westurner/flasktestapp/commits/develop (cookiecutter-flask) > > You've got the idea of "front and back door APIs" i.e. a front door for > human eyeballs, a back door for other computers using an API. > > We could call it a "service entrance" like when trucks back up to the > warehouse to load/unload goods (but in this case using JSON). > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_API http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/quickstart/ https://github.com/Runscope/httpbin "HTTP Request & Response Service, written in Python + Flask. http://httpbin.org" http://swagger.io/open-source-integrations/#python-18 lists a number of swagger (OpenAPI) implementations for flask. http://swagger.io/specification/ "OpenAPI Specification (fka Swagger RESTful API Documentation Specification)" https://18f.github.io/API-All-the-X/pages/what_are_APIs-anecdotes_and_metaphors https://18f.github.io/API-All-the-X/pages/api_standards > > Kirby > > > [1] I've been yammering about physics education Youtubes on that list for > physics teachers I frequent, closed archive (for now). Behind those > Youtubes (animations) may be a physics engine. > > [2] https://www.codingwithkids.com/#!/afterschool?show=locations®ion=2 > > [3] > http://coffeeshopsnet.blogspot.com/2016/09/internet-aware-lcds.html > (another project) > http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2016/10/go-by-train.html (picture of > Charles, bottom) > >
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