[Edu-sig] update from Silicon Forest

Wes Turner wes.turner at gmail.com
Sat Jan 21 01:23:07 EST 2017 

On Friday, January 20, 2017, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Greetings from Silicon Forest to this mostly-quiet list. Perhaps listservs
> in general have been overtaken in many cases, by technology with a higher
> bling factor.
>

https://medium.com/tag/edtech https://medium.com/tag/python

https://hypothes.is/ (highlighting & threaded comments w/ Markdown on
anything with a URI (and PDFs))

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> Or maybe it's that listservs (mail lists) are not an obvious vehicle for
> blatant advertising whereas Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus and such, all
> have obvious ways for marketers to break in.
>

https://twitter.com/OfficeofEdTech

- National Education Technology Plan (NETP): Reimagining the Role of
Technology in Education
   https://tech.ed.gov/netp/

- Higher Education Supplement to the National Education Technology Plan
(HIGHEREDNETP): Reimagining the Role of Technology in Higher Education
  https://tech.ed.gov/higherednetp/

Twitter Hashtags: #edtech #edetech #k12cs #stem #python

(Saveable) Twitter Searches:

- https://twitter.com/search?q=edtech+python
- https://twitter.com/search?q=edutech+python
<https://twitter.com/search?q=edtech+python>
- https://twitter.com/search?q=k12cs+python
- https://twitter.com/search?q=stem+python


Twitter lists:

- https://twitter.com/westurner/lists/edtech /members
- https://twitter.com/IntelEDU/lists/edutech/members
- https://twitter.com/IntelEDU/lists/education-it/members


> Glad to see about the new release of the physics engine.[1]
>

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software)
- https://www.blender.org/api/blender_python_api_2_78a_release/
- https://www.blender.org/manual/physics/
- https://www.blender.org/manual/game_engine/python_api/bullet_physics.html
(these docs could be much more beginner-friendly)


>
> Portland has been under a blanket of snow, so the Winter term is off to a
> slow start. That's with regard to an after school program I help staff,
> more another time (CwK [2]).
>
> The public school system in Portland is a big fan of MIT Scratch, did I
> mention?
>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockly (code.org)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_(programming_language)

https://twitter.com/search?q=mitscratch

https://twitter.com/search?q=edutech+python
<https://twitter.com/search?q=edtech+python>

  https://twitter.com/Amaliny_YoHas/status/814661269898797057

    http://edtechnology.co.uk/Article/from-scratch-to-python

http://www.omahapython.org/blog/archives/event/building-the-bricklayer-ide
"Bricklayer programs produce virtual LEGO, Minecraft, and 3D-printable
artifacts."

https://bricklayerdotorg.wordpress.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G-wEhvVRBo


> Where to next after that, if MIT Scratch is how you started?  There's more
> than one way forward naturally.  However if you've started in the cloud and
> are used to accessing the same work from multiple devices, then you'll
> probably want to keep working that way, at least sometimes.
>
> Have most here heard of Codesters already?
>
> https://www.codesters.com/
>
> Codesters provides a platform very like MIT Scratch, by deliberate design,
> providing continuity of concepts and skills (sprites and backdrops, drag
> and drop tools, sorted by topic) into a Pythonic environment.
>

The LMS (integrated gradebook) features of Codesters look pretty cool.
>From the video, I also like how you can drag-and-drop actual code to the
editor.


>
> https://youtu.be/Q1hj5XvrfTw
>
> I used the snow days to study up on Finnish history a little, with a spike
> in activity on Facebook where I see some of you.
>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqZSYKJPDN8 (Finnish Leveraxe 2.0)

http://www.oph.fi/english/current_issues/101/0/subject_teaching_in_finnish_schools_is_not_being_abolished

In order to meet the challenges of the future, the focus is on transversal
> (generic) competences and work across school subjects. Collaborative
> classroom practices, where pupils may work with several teachers
> simultaneously during periods of phenomenon-based project studies are
> emphasised.
>


The pupils should participate each year in at least one such
> multidisciplinary learning module. These modules are designed and
> implemented locally. The core curriculum also states that the pupils should
> be involved in the planning.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transversal_(geometry)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transdisciplinarity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdisciplinarity

...

It would be really great if we could develop transdisciplinary STEM
curriculum tied in with #K12CSFramework:
https://k12cs.org/


> Looking forward to a visit from former PSF director and former Pycon
> tycoon (used for alliteration) Steve Holden in a week or so.  Many readers
> here know him.
>

https://twitter.com/holdenweb

https://twitter.com/westurner/lists/python /members


>
> He's a UKer now living back in the homeland, who is likewise very at home
> in the US, had a cool office and apartment (separate addresses) just blocks
> from here in recent years.
>

https://www.raspberrypi.org/curriculum/

http://competency-checklist.appspot.com/


>
> Speaking of Pycon, I signed on as a possible co-speaking at two Pycon
> talks.
>

https://us.pycon.org/2016/events/edusummit/

There's a pyvideo "education" tag:

http://pyvideo.org/tag/education/


>
> Charles Crosse [3] has devised an ingenius business plan he wants to open
> source,
>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_models_for_open-source_software


> plus (and this is what's impressive) a working prototype he's actually
> field tested with his own family.
>
> Basically, it's a way for parents to set it up for unsupervised learning
> where junior gets more "lives" (time on the Internet) in exchange for
> choosing from "pre-approved activities". Translation: "if you do your math
> homework, you'll get more time on the X-Box"
>
> Whether the proposals fly or not (as talks), I'm optimistic about the
> model.  The prototype uses a Raspberry Pi as a stand-in router.  That's the
> shut-off valve.  If you don't do your math homework, the router stops
> feeding you lives and you X-box loses its net connection (there's a GUI and
> everything).
>

What about emergency xbox communications?


>
> In addition to Codesters, our program uses Cloud9.
>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud9_IDE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SageMathCloud

  https://twitter.com/westurner/status/822162824596226048

   "@wstein389 Does nbgrader (for grading @ProjectJupyter notebooks) work
with @sagemathcloud? #EdTech"

     https://github.com/jupyter/nbgrader


>
> I continue to showcase thekirbster.pythonanywhere.com as a somewhat
> functional CRUD application (the skeleton is there) using Flask + Jinja2.
> Very minimalist, just showing what a bare bones web application might
> consist of.
>

https://github.com/humiaozuzu/awesome-flask

https://github.com/westurner/flasktestapp/commits/develop
(cookiecutter-flask)


>
> You've got the idea of "front and back door APIs" i.e. a front door for
> human eyeballs, a back door for other computers using an API.
>
> We could call it a "service entrance" like when trucks back up to the
> warehouse to load/unload goods (but in this case using JSON).
>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_API

http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/quickstart/

https://github.com/Runscope/httpbin "HTTP Request & Response Service,
written in Python + Flask. http://httpbin.org"

http://swagger.io/open-source-integrations/#python-18 lists a number of
swagger (OpenAPI) implementations for flask.

http://swagger.io/specification/ "OpenAPI Specification (fka Swagger
RESTful API Documentation Specification)"

https://18f.github.io/API-All-the-X/pages/what_are_APIs-anecdotes_and_metaphors

https://18f.github.io/API-All-the-X/pages/api_standards



>
> Kirby
>
>
> [1] I've been yammering about physics education Youtubes on that list for
> physics teachers I frequent, closed archive (for now). Behind those
> Youtubes (animations) may be a physics engine.
>
> [2] https://www.codingwithkids.com/#!/afterschool?show=locations&region=2
>
> [3]
> http://coffeeshopsnet.blogspot.com/2016/09/internet-aware-lcds.html
> (another project)
> http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2016/10/go-by-train.html  (picture of
> Charles, bottom)
>
>
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