[pedagogy] A term for "teaching community"?

[Selena Deckelmann]

Thanks for this!

I think what I was after this: http://www.centerforcsri.org/plc/program.html

Professional Learning Community (PLC) is the term used in schools for
"teachers getting together to learn from each other", among other things.

So, the term I'll be searching with in the future is that. I should
probably rebrand this group to use that term in some way, since that's what
the industry term is.

-selena



On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure this directly answers your question, but
> https://speakerdeck.com/alex/open-source-and-education is a slide deck I
> delivered ~3 years ago that touches on a lot of these same topics. Broadly
> I think both groups have a lot they can learn from each other, open source
> projects are organically finding, developing, and tailoring to our usecase
> a lot of known pedagogical strategies, but there's still a lot of known
> research we aren't taking advantage of. The flip side is open source
> communities are working with a pretty interesting set of constraints that
> (to my knowledge), don't have a lot of specific research: newcomers are of
> unknown (and a wide range!) of skill levels, we assume no in-person
> contact, time to engage is extremely volatile, etc.
>
> Alex
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Selena Deckelmann <selena at chesnok.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> So, is there a term for the idea of a "teaching community"? (other than
>> that) I have this feeling that I'm missing literature about what is
>> happening in the tech community around education and teaching because I
>> don't have a term for it.
>>
>> The emphasis is on teaching "at scale" and maximizing positive
>> experiences for beginners. This wasn't really a concern to the FOSS
>> learning communities, so it feels appropriate to name it separately, even
>> if it's an evolutionary kind of thing.
>>
>> BACKGROUND
>> I was thinking this morning about learning communities. FOSS communities
>> are learning communities. We've all become very interested in programmer
>> education -- first because we couldn't hire people fast enough, and now
>> because there's a greater awareness of diversity problems and a tacit
>> agreement that education is a way to correct some of the root causes of
>> that.
>>
>> And now we've got this surge in interest in leveling up on the ability to
>> teach and access to the people that we want to teach. The reasons are
>> varied: diversity, advocacy, career advancement, standardization,
>> recruitment/hiring, social justice...
>>
>> A short list of the programs and resources out there for "teaching
>> technical literacy" for young people (and most involve programming)
>> include:
>>
>> Black Girls Code, Bootstrap, Bootstrap World, Citizen Schools, Code
>> Racer, Code Ramp, Code School, Code.org, Codecademy, CodeEd.org, CodeHS,
>> CodeNow, CoderDojo, Computer Clubhouse, Don't Fear the Internet,
>> EnstituteU, Exposure Camp, Girl Develop It, Girls Who Code, Hackety Hack,
>> HBCU Hacks (a program of Black Founders), Khan Academy, Lego League, Logo
>> Summer Institute, MinecraftEdu, NFTE - NYC Generation Tech Program
>> (partnership with EDC), NYC Tech Sector Scratch Day (a.k.a. "5 Boro Scratch
>> Day"), Program by Design, Scratch, ScriptEd, Skillcrush, Sky's The Limit,
>> StartupBox Bronx, Summer Qamp, TEALS, Technology and kids, Technovation
>> (Iridescent Learning), Treehouse, Udacity
>>
>> And then a list (without all the many locations) of in-person schools and
>> programs for beginner adults I know about are:
>>
>> Portland Code School, Catalyst, Hacker School, Dev Bootcamp, Hackbright
>> Academy, The Starter League, App Academy, PyLadies, Boston Python Workshop,
>> Railsbridge, PyStar, Geek Girl Camps, Ada Camp, Grace Hopper Celebration of
>> Women in Computing
>>
>> Resources I missed? Other thoughts?
>>
>> -selena
>>
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