Python Education Summit 2016
Team: The Python Education Summit is on again this year at the PyCon in Portland. A couple of things are the same, a couple of things are gonna change... 0) *Keeping the conversation going*: last year, we talked about ways to keep the conversation going through out the year and many of the ideas we suggested never took off. Please join us on the new *PythonEDU Slack Team* (see below) so we can revisit those ideas and see what we can do to increase and improve how we share data and ideas on education and Python. 1) *Slack Team: PythonEDU* - All work by the Planning Committee for the Summit as well as general conversations about the Summit are gonna run through a Slack Team (if you want an invite, let me know... *I have to manually invite folks - weakness of slack, not my preference*). 2) *Volunteer*: we need participants on the Planning Committee >>> if you want to be included in the conversation, let me know so I can add you to the Slack Team. 3) *Call for Papers:* Talk submissions go through the same talk submission process as any other PyCon talk. While I loved the idea of using moderator, as we looked at the logisitics, there were too many weaknesses in that process to continue. You only have til January 3rd to submit talks. Get in there and do it! https://goo.gl/iCKOWY 4) *What to include in the Summit*: We are brainstorming ideas for what to include in the edusummit. The ideas will be hashed out by the Planning Committee. Let us know what you want to see! 5) *Twitter*: our twitter hashtag will be #pythonedu 6) *Registration for the Summit:* There are some glitches that need to be worked out in regards to getting folks registered to participate in the Summit. I am looking into that. More to come. Respectfully, Chalmer Lowe Chairman of the Python Education Summit -- Chalmer Lowe, MS PyHawaii Dark Art of Coding Booz Allen Hamilton
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Chalmer Lowe <chalmer.lowe@gmail.com> wrote:
Team:
The Python Education Summit is on again this year at the PyCon in Portland.
Greetings Chalmer, please send me an invitation if you would. I missed the two Montreal Pycons however I'm a resident of Portland and already registered for the coming one, so it'd be a missed opportunity to miss out on your PythonEDU Slack Team planning. I've not submitted any talk proposals so far. Having been fortunate enough to present quite a bit in the past, at Pycons and OSCONs in particular, I'm still referencing / footnoting those presentations as evidence of what I'm up to and where I'm going -- in case collaboration is an option. These days, I think in terms of "lambda and delta calculus" as the two flavors of math we offer to teens, but we don't brand that way (with the Greek letters). Delta Calc is regular Calculus, which dominates the high school math experience whereas Lambda Calc is "computer science" (or "gnu math" as I sometimes call it). Some students might appreciate more sense of at least two ways to go, with the option to swirl them together. I'd like to get to know more of the people planning on coming to Portland in 2016. What I was saying on Chipy last night, where we were talking about LISP family languages, is I don't see FP (functional programming) and OO (object oriented) as either / or, and would myself like to keep spiraling deeper into a Python - Jython - Java - Clojure circle that eats its own tail. One needs a lot of marbles for all that and I've maybe lost one or two over the years -- but I believe that even late in life, new marbles may be acquired. :-D I've been on edu-sig a long time, having hopped on the Python bandwagon around version 1.6. I'm interested in 3D graphics from a philosophical point of view and was drawn, like the late Arthur Siegel of PyGeo fame [1], to Visual Python (vpython.org). Quite a bit of my Python-in-education writing is been in that domain (VRML, ray tracing... this new book by Popko called Divided Spheres, billed as a primer, nails the domain pretty well ). Here in Portland we have an institution called Saturday Academy for highly motivated kids wanting to do extra-curricular work, and my blogs are have lots of first person accounts of my sharing Python through that school (not a full time job, pays a pittance). In that context, I developed a course called Martian Math [2] which is core to a four-aspect curriculum I share as Digital Mathematics, though I've come nowhere close to achieving the fame of some others doing that. [3] I look forward to meeting you in 2016. Kirby [1] http://python.6.x6.nabble.com/arthur-siegel-has-passed-away-td2108619.html [2] http://www.4dsolutions.net/satacad/martianmath/toc.html [3] https://newrepublic.com/article/124750/man-will-save-math
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