January 10, 2017 / by Drew Wheeler / In coding , education
Creating My Class Website - Why and How?
A little walkthrough of my reasons and process for creating a website for my mathematics courses.
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November 27, 2016 / by Drew Wheeler / In education
Organizing my Teaching with Google Sheets and Trello
Over the past several weeks I have been using a combination of Google Sheets and Trello for planning and organizing my teaching. It has been amazing! It has reduced my level of stress immensely!
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November 02, 2016 / by Drew Wheeler / In education , coding
Python Across the Subjects Workshop
This past weekend I ran an introductory coding workshop that was focused on helping teachers to see opportunities for the integration of coding (specifically Python) across various subject areas. Examples of possible student programming tasks that align with the science, mathematics, languages and art curriculums were discussed. Thanks to everyone who attended and to AISG for hosting a fantastic event.
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September 22, 2016 / by Drew Wheeler / In coding , education
Teaching Binary
Why teach kids about binary? Well, it not only adds great context for students who are starting to learn to program but it can also give them a stronger fundamental understanding of the base 10 system they are so used to.
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