Hi Wes, Thanks for those! I look forward to exploring those paths!
Best wishes, Stephen On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 8:10 PM, Wes Turner <wes.tur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sunday, May 13, 2018, Nicholas H.Tollervey <nt...@ntoll.org> wrote: > >> Hi Stephen, >> >> It's great to hear that colleagues in Ireland are taking such positive >> steps. Here in the UK, your countryman, Alan O'Donohoe, has been at the >> centre of the coding/teaching renaissance (look him up, he's awesome -- >> say I told you to get in touch). > > > > K12 Computer Science Framework > https://k12cs.org > > #k12cs #k12csframework > > > The Association for Computing Machinery, Code.org, Computer Science > Teachers Association, Cyber Innovation Center, and National Math and > Science Initiative have collaborated with states, districts, and the > computer science education community to develop conceptual guidelines for > computer science education. > > >> >> Here's the thing, the Python language and the community that goes with >> it is very much "open source" with core values of sharing of code, >> resources and time. While there isn't a central location for Python >> related educational materials, many members of our community have >> created educational resources that are covered by liberal "open source" >> licenses -- i.e. they're already free to use, adopt and adapt. Just make >> sure you check the license at the bottom is something like Creative >> Commons. >> >> I'd strongly recommend you follow this practice. Your resources will be >> both useful for other teachers throughout the world but, more >> importantly for you, others will be able to contribute to them. >> Basically, the Python community *already* gives away educational >> resources for free, for everyone -- perhaps you should too..? > > > A few ways to share Python educational resources: > > # awesome-python-in-education > https://github.com/quobit/awesome-python-in-education > > # #OER: Open Educational Resources > https://www.oercommons.org > > # schema.org metadata > Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema.org > > If you add metadata to an HTML page, it can be indexed by search engines: > > http://schema.org/CreativeWork > http://schema.org/educationalAlignment #examples > http://schema.org/license > https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/ > https://choosealicense.com/licenses/ > > http://schema.org/Course > http://schema.org/CourseInstance > http://schema.org/EducationEvent > > > # h5p (WordPress, Moodle, Drupal) > https://h5p.org/ > https://h5p.org/content-types-and-applications > > # edX + Jupyter > https://github.com/ibleducation/jupyter-viewer-xblock > > # > https://wrdrd.github.io/docs/consulting/education-technology#jupyter-and- > learning > > > > >> I hope this makes sense. I'm more than happy to answer any questions you >> may have if you drop me an email off-list. >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Nicholas. >> >> On 12/05/18 16:34, Stephen Murphy wrote: >> > Hello all, >> > >> > My name is Stephen Murphy. I am a teacher of science, biology, coding, >> > digital media and computer science in Gaelcholaiste Mhuire AG in Cork >> > City, Ireland. >> > >> > The Irish government has recently created coding, digital media and >> > computer science subjects in Irish schools. The coding and digital media >> > course have already started to junior classes, the senior computer >> > science subject will come into effect next September. >> > >> > The national body charged with developing the curriculum and >> > specification for the Computer Science subject has said that only Python >> > and Java script may be used. >> > >> > In November 2017, I created the Computer Science Teachers' Association >> > of Ireland (CSTAI). To date, we have over 400 members and 36 of the 40 >> > pilot Leaving Certificate Computer Science schools have joined. >> > >> > We have a Google Drive with 100's of resources for coding, computer >> > science, digital media and general computing courses. The material is >> > suitable for both primary and secondary level. These resources can be >> > accessed, downloaded and modified by our members for their class. >> > >> > We have an entire folder of Python resources (Notes, worksheets, videos, >> > python scripts etc) on the Google Drive. >> > >> > I propose an exchange of Python teaching resources from the CSTAI to you >> > and vice-versa. >> > >> > This will allow both sets of teachers to expand their teaching resource >> > bank. >> > >> > If you are interested in this exchange, please respond to this email and >> > we can work out the exchange. >> > >> > Best wishes, >> > >> > Stephen >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Edu-sig mailing list >> > Edu-sig@python.org >> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig >> > >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > >
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