Teaching Python Online to Primary Students
summary
Gifted online Python and block courses run to about 40 Tasmanian schools, started in 1998 (Click and Play), moved to Scratch then to Python in 2015 after adopting Grok Learning and a Blockly jumpstart. Courses use scoreboards, health bars and game bosses for mastery, plus auto-marking and instant feedback to scale asynchronous teaching. A girls-only Codex course raises female enrollment. Ongoing problems: teacher selection of students, limited one-hour weekly access, variable home internet and uneven code quality; a 300–400 taster is planned to pick ~70–80 students.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:45About me
- 3:05Gifted Online
- 7:28History of my courses
- 10:11My courses
- 11:20Gamification
- 12:07Game Bosses
- 14:21Grok
- 17:19Help
- 18:20Challenges
- 22:47Successes
- 24:23Questions
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