Python in Primary School
summary
A community program scales to over 20 schools and 400 students in 18 months, teaching Scratch then moving Year 5–6 to Python using trinket where installs are blocked, noting trinket feels like a website not real programming and planning a portable USB Python. Classroom projects include a solar system quiz and a text adventure game built in one-hour weekly sessions over a term, students customize stories, faster students add dictionaries and randomisation, and compulsory classes lift girls from ~25% to ~40%. Regional teacher workshops run under state funding.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 2:30Changing Educational Landscape
- 2:57Queensland Journey
- 4:41Digital Technologies Tracking Tool
- 5:01Experimenting with Python in Primary Schools
- 10:49Limits to IDLE and trinket.io
- 13:25What's next?
- 14:08What do you think?
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