Jon Stapleton. CS educator and recovering music teacher. Music, making, creative coding, TRPGs 🦀 Claws Up! 2 degrees in music ed from JMU. He/they. 💍@Kerry_Mo
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The time has come to be here less often. I'm in merveilles.town at the handle @octojon for the foreseeable future while I build my dopamine factories back up
Petition to make Lua as ubiquitous in K-12 as Python has (inexplicably) become. This is a joke, but also if you know me you know it's not really a joke
This doesn't get enough attention. It boggles my mind how hard it is for educators to give students a clean, simple, consistent, cross-platform Python programming experience, which is supposed to be so "easy". From
noenthuda.com/2023/04/20/the…
by @karthiks.
ALT Goldman Sachs’s SLANG was even better. By the time I left from there, I had learnt R as well. And then I became a “data scientist”. People asked me to use Python. I struggled with it. After the user experience of R, this was too complex. This brought back bad memories of all the systems programming and dealing with bad UX I had encountered in my undergrad. This time I was in control (I was a freelancer) so I didn’t need to give up – I was able to get all my work done in R.
There's a widespread myth that Python is "easy to learn" or whatever and I'm here to tell you that it just isn't. I would trade CircuitPython for CircuitC or CircuitLua in a second and beyond that I'd rather just be teaching Picotron
A huge downside to mostly using fedi these days is that I tend to forget that truly random people will show up on my TL here bearing gifts of wild, rancid, steaming takes. On fedi I get to block dicecamp entirely and move on with my life
Hey if you make creative coding tools for learners please check out this paper. Extending a tool created, used, & maintained by an existing community of artists is so much more powerful than developing new tools & colonizing existing creative epistemologies.
doi.org/10.1145/3545945.3569… “Intertwined: Enhancing K-12 Pair Programming Engagement Using Real-Time Collaboration with Twine” Iwasaki & Hardin at Western Washington U.
Yo since when are test scores all that teachers expect from students? I don't know a single teacher (except for AP teachers, those courses break people) who care about this. CS ed orgs--don't let people who don't teach talk about teaching.
Installing bike infrastructure to provide safe routes from neighborhoods to public school buildings for students
I have yet to produce the right mix of good brain chemicals, nice furniture, storage, and interesting decorations which would allow me to move and not spend a ton of money to make my home livable. Why don't they teach this in schools! All I learned was how to do my taxes
Okay if you work for an education nonprofit and you made a poster or infographic this year to "support teachers" have you considered making instructional materials instead bc boy howdy are there a lot of infographics and very few examples of solid instruction out there
I think CS ed is particularly vulnerable to framework bloat & praxis avoidance bc we have a bajillion nonprofits doing policy work and like, maybe a dozen preservice teacher ed programs. Bad news folks--the 5 lesson plans you made 3 years ago aren't filling the gap
This one is a banger, y'all. Also check out the other episode on ANOTHER Eisner piece from last week!
This week's #CSK8 Podcast episode unpacks Eisner’s (2002) publication titled “The centrality of curriculum and the function of standards: The curriculum is a mind-altering device,” which explores how curricla/standards can deprofessionalize the field: youtu.be/GOi_lUUMIsI