PyCon Australia 2015 Education Miniconf
2015-08-01
Brisbane, Australia
[PyCon Australia 2013, PyCon Australia 2014, PyCon Australia 2014 Science & Data miniconf, PyCon Australia 2015, PyCon Australia 2015 Science/Data Miniconf, PyCon Australia 2015 Education Miniconf]
who it's for
secondary school teachers, primary school teachers, after school club volunteers, university instructors, teacher trainers, education technologists
topics
turtle graphics with IDLE; PyCharm Educational Edition exercises; Flask on PythonAnywhere; Tornado with SQLite prototypes; LTI integration for Open edX; leaderboard open-response xblock; learning analytics REST API; Raspberry Pi GPIO and Sense HAT; Minecraft Pi classroom projects; fill-in-the-missing-code exercises; password hashing for student apps; Bootstrap for student web layouts
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Teaching Programming for the fun of IT | Peter Whitehouse | 30m |
Argues that Python and turtle graphics plus IDLE let junior students reach real "aha" moments faster than heavy‑syntax languages, describes using Scratch, App… | ||
| Using PyCharm Educational Edition | Thea Koutsoukis | 27m |
Uses PyCharm Educational Edition to deliver fill-in-the-missing-code exercises and ordinary projects side by side, run locally with an integrated console… | ||
| Using Flask and Python Anywhere in the Classroom | Brad Nielsen | 31m |
Classroom deploys Flask on Python Anywhere so year 12 students develop live web apps remotely, edit one main Python file, and teacher-side inspects code and… | ||
| Rapid prototyping with teenagers | Katie Bell | 33m |
Builds a fully functional social networking site in three days with 15 high school kids, many brand new to coding, as part of NCSS. Starts with an in-memory… | ||
| Trials & tribulations teaching Python at CoderDojo | Caleb Hattingh | 36m |
Description says teaching Python to 6–18 year olds at a Brisbane CoderDojo. The useful bits: Code Academy and PyCharm Educational Edition exercises prove too… | ||
| Writing Python For Kids | Brendan Scott | 34m |
A behind-the-scenes account of turning a blog into Wiley’s Python for Kids for Dummies: contract delays, a detailed table-of-contents demand, and wrote code in… | ||
| Open edX: An edX partner perspective | John Zornig | 25m |
University of Queensland joins the edX consortium in 2013 and implements LTI integration to connect external tools, works mainly on Python Django apps, and… | ||
| Education Miniconf Closing Keynote | Carrie Anne Philbin | 01h 04m |
Raspberry Pi appears as a practical classroom solution: a $35 computer with GPIO and Sense HAT, free Creative Commons lesson plans, and a community that runs… | ||
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