Day 30. 3 Things I Learned Writing Online Every Day For 30 Days In A Row.
Today is the last day of writing and publishing online content for 30 days. I completed the challenge. Some things I learned along the way.
Day 29. Building Effective Tech Lessons 101. Learning by Example.
Training material builds it using all the techniques we discussed over the last 28 days.
Day 28: My 3 Favorite Newsletters For Learning #RStats
I love to learn about R and data science, and these newsletters are a great way to keep up with the latest news and trends.
Day 27. A Question About AI and Education I’ve Been Asking Myself Lately (And Why)
Generative AI was spat out into the world, and as teachers, we have to deal with the consequences.
Day 26. Education, Computers, and Power.
How I found my passion for computers and teaching.
Day 25. 4 Quick Tips to Make Your Teaching More Accessible
Teaching for everyone, make ‘accessible’ your usual perspective.
Day 24. The Single Most Powerful Technique to Foster Students' Motivation in Programming Classes
Use Authentic Tasks as teaching strategies to enter the world of computing.
Day 23. 1 Tip I Would Give Anyone Who Wanted To Ensure Students Engagement Online
Shared note-taking and exercise problem-solving. Two ways to engage students online.
Day 22: The Best Way To Continue Improving Your Teaching: Feedback 101
Your teaching will improve with feedback from your students, colleagues, and yourself. Learn how to get and give helpful feedback.
Day 21: One Tool That Improves My Teaching and Students' Engagement.
The best way to improve your class is to solicit feedback. The best way to enhance your students' engagement is to solicit their feedback.
Day 20: The First-Time Online Programming Teacher Playbook.
Real cases of what can go wrong during online classes and how you can solve it.
Day 19: 6 Simple (But Effective) Learning Strategies I’d Give Anyone To Improve Their Learning
I have been working as an educator for 30 years. These are the 6 simple (but effective) learning strategies I’d share with anyone who wants to learn better.
Day 18: Understanding Brain Plasticity: Highlights from Neuroscience in the School For The Pragmatic Teacher
My notes about brain plasticity and how that impacts teaching and learning.
Day 17: 2 Software Tools I Can’t Live Without For Creating Content in English
Two apps I can’t live without when it comes to writing content in English.
Day 16: Debunking 4 Tenacious Educational Programming Myths for Better Teaching Outcomes
Why Learning Styles, Learning Pyramid, Geek Gene, and Good at math = Good programmer are misconceptions?
Day 15: Distilling how to use Participatory Live Coding in-person and online - Tip 9 and 10
Today, we talk about one of the biggest fears of teachers using Participatory Live Coding: Making mistakes. Spoiler Alert: not only is it okay to make mistakes, but they are also an excellent opportunity for teaching. We also discuss another way to engage students when teaching with Participatory Live Coding.
Day 14: Distilling how to use Participatory Live Coding in-person and online - Tip 7 and 8
Today, we have two more tips about this teaching technique for programming. We will focus on our lesson plan, when and how we can improvise to avoid losing track, and how to use diagrams.
Day 13: Distilling how to use Participatory Live Coding in-person and online - Tip 6
Teaching with participatory live coding can make it difficult to know whether people are following along or unable to code due to ongoing issues that haven’t been fixed. One way to check with your learners is to give different ways to indicate their status, so our today’s tip is Get real-time feedback and provide immediate help.
Day 12. Distilling how to use Participatory Live Coding in-person and online - Tip 5
It is essential that all learners can see the code and the output of the screen because they have to copy exactly what you have typed. Today, we will look at how to use the screen(s) wisely.
Day 11. Distilling how to use Participatory Live Coding in-person and online - Tip 3 y 4
Mirror your learner’s environment and Avoid distraction. Two tips for a useful and friendly implementation of Participatory Live Coding for you and your students.
Day 10. Distilling how to use Participatory Live Coding in-person and online - Tip 2
Second tip to use Participatory Live Coding when teaching programing: Go slowly, and don’t teach alone. Ideas for in person and online classes.
Day 9. Distilling how to use Participatory Live Coding in-person and online - Tip 1
First tip from a series of 10 tips for educator to implement participatory live coding in their classroom. How to use it in-person and online
Day 8. The Participatory Live Coding Framework: A Structured Approach for Programming Educators
What is Live coding and what pedagogical practices support this technique? How can we apply them in our classroom?
Day 7. We Learn Better Together, Community of Practice and Education.
Today, I share 4 communities of practice that help me boost my carrer in teaching, data and coding skills.
Day 6. The Best Way To Get Started Learning About Teaching to Code
Today, I share a book, a video and a podcast episode to learn how to teach.
Day 5. From Learning to Choosing to Coding - How Our Memory Plays a Central Role
Today, I will explain a few simple facts about memory and share how to avoid overloading the learner by managing their cognitive load when teaching to code.
Day 4. Are Your Students Learning? How to check for learning as we’re teaching.
Here are 5 exercises you can use as formative assessments when teaching coding skills, that will allow you to support your student at the moment when the learning is happening.
Day 3. The Best Tools For Sparking ‘Aha’ Moments In Your Students
Use analogies, concept maps and notional machines to build your learners mental models.
Day 2. The 3 types of learners you need to know before starting teaching
Novice, Competent and Expert, and why is important to know to who are you teaching before you start to build a lesson
Day 1. 3 reasons why you need to learn to teach effectively
I will write about teaching and learning techniques applied to programming and data science during the next 30 days