[Edu-sig] Collaboratively developing OER Python textbooks.

[Jeff Elkner]

Hi Sergio,

Seems to me the most effective way of " building a learning Python environment in the context on teaching and learning math at the elementary/high school level" would be to connect with existing efforts and contribute to them.

As a full time teacher, I'm in a great place to test out materials with the group of people who matter most in all this, students / learners, but I have only limited time for contributing to the development process, so I need to keep my goals modest.

The action is mainly taking place on http://jupyter.org, so the thing for me to do is learn this platform and join this community, and then contribute classroom ready resources to it.

Cheers,
Jeff 


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On June 13, 2018 9:12 AM, Sergio Rojas <sergio_r at mail.com> wrote:

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> Hi Jeff,
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> In relation to your call on
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> > I would be delighted to see this mailing list be used for
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> > collaboration and discussion around OER learning materials for Python.
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> Perhaps we could start making it more formally, in building a
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> learning Python environment in the context on teaching and learning
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> math at the elementary/high school level.
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> It seems that you already have a nice vigorous start up with your
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> colleagues and students which can bring this collaboration to an higher level.
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> revising the CSP openbook project
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> [ http://www.openbookproject.net/books/StudentCSP/index.html ].
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> I also wrote to Sebastian (cc this email to him) who has
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> good ideas on the same vein. Hopefully he might have some time to share
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> on getting something done in this endeavor.
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> > Let me know when you feel you have something ready for testing.
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> It would be nice to hear recommendations for additions and modifications
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> to the content of the book and to the provided codes for each book.
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> At the moment I have not thought about the best way to add suggested
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> modifications to the respective book, directly by everyone, but
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> taken care that the project derive somewhere else.
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> Currently, I am revising the write up of the Prealgebra book
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> and trying to rewrite the codes in a more pythonic fashion, to add
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> a chapter on coding using pure python style to gain speed in code
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> execution.
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> Regards,
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> Sergio
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> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2018 at 11:15 AM
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> From: "Jeff Elkner" jeff at elkner.net
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> To: "Sergio Rojas" sergio_r at mail.com, "edu-sig at python.org" edu-sig at python.org
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> Subject: Collaboratively developing OER Python textbooks.
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> Hi Sergio,
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> I would be delighted to see this mailing list be used for collaboration and discussion around OER learning materials for Python.
> 
> I'm working on remixing a wonderful textbook written for use with the College Board's AP CS Principles course:
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> http://www.openbookproject.net/books/StudentCSP/
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> I've got the project on Gitlab at:
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> https://gitlab.com/jelkner/StudentCSP[https://gitlab.com/jelkner/StudentCSP]
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> Since students are the final judges of the effectiveness of education resources, I involve my students as testers / reviewers using issues tracking on Gitlab as the way for them to provide feedback. Shushantika Barua (cc'd here) proved an excellent proof reader / editor / tester. Taking a look at the issues she filed shows the process:
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> https://gitlab.com/jelkner/StudentCSP/issues?scope=all&utf8=✓&state=closed[https://gitlab.com/jelkner/StudentCSP/issues?scope=all&utf8=✓&state=closed]
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> I have a friend and colleague, Isaac Zawolo (cc'd here) who teaches math at my school. We have been talking about integrating the learning of math and computer programming for several years. We also have a large community of first language Spanish speakers at our school.
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> So, Sergio, if you are interested, I would be glad to get my students involved in testing and contributing to both https://github.com/rojassergio/Prealgebra-via-Python-Programming[https://github.com/rojassergio/Prealgebra-via-Python-Programming] and https://github.com/rojassergio/Aprendiendo-a-programar-en-Python-con-mi-computador[https://github.com/rojassergio/Aprendiendo-a-programar-en-Python-con-mi-computador].
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> Let me know when you feel you have something ready for testing.
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> Thanks!
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> Jeff Elkner
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> Arlington Career Center, Arlington, VA
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> Let's work together to create a just and sustainable world!
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> On June 11, 2018 9:35 AM, Sergio Rojas sergio_r at mail.com wrote:
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> > On 10/05/18 16:15, Jeff Elkner wrote:
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> > > Dear edu-sig friends,
> > > 
> > > We had an interesting discussion at the Education Summit today at
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> > > Pycon about ways to better engage folks between Pycons.
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> > Hi Jeff,
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> > Are the documents of the Pycon Education Summit available on the Internet?
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> > > As a public school teacher, I have a particular interest in python in
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> > > k12 institutions
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> > How are you using Python in teaching and learning?
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> > I finished a first crude draft of a book devoted mostly to Mathematics
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> > (Prealgebra topics ) via Python
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> > https://github.com/rojassergio/Prealgebra-via-Python-Programming[https://github.com/rojassergio/Prealgebra-via-Python-Programming] )
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> > which I want to improve (in content and readability)
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> > and perhaps the discussions of the Educational Summit
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> > could be of help to better shape the book on the content of topics.
> > 
> > Regards,
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> > Sergio
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> > Message: 1
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> > Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 17:15:28 -0400
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> > From: Jeff Elkner jeff at elkner.net
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