Education Summit @LT15, NUS School of Computing
On 31 May 2018, PyCon APAC 2018 will hold an Education Summit, a gathering of educators focused on bringing computational thinking and coding literacy, through Python, to the classroom and the community. We invite passionate educators to join the discussion, share insights, learn things and build networks! We are looking for educators from various domains: authors, schools, tertiary institutions, non-profit community-based programmes, and government.
Schedule
8:00am Registration & Breakfast |
8:50am Opening by Dr Liew Beng Keat, Deputy Director at Republic Polytechnic, BDFL PyCon APAC |
9:00am Learning programming and problem solving through solving algorithm problems by Mr Lee Tsung-Hsien, Staff Software Engineer at Toyota Research Institute, co-author of Elements of Programming Interviews in C++/Java/Python |
9:30am from python import magic - The Magic of Teaching Python using Python by Mr Dean Ang Ngee Keng, Senior Computing Teacher at School of Science and Technology, Singapore |
10:00am Computing @ Zhonghua Secondary by Mr Calvin Heng, Computing teacher at Zhonghua Secondary School |
10:30am From Coders to Raiders, using Repl.it - A Story-based Approach to Teaching Python by Mr V Surya, Computing teacher at Jurong West Secondary School |
11:00am Teaching Python to Working Adults by Prof Ben Leong, Associate Professor at National University of Singapore, Director at MOE Experimental Systems & Technology Lab |
11:30am Digital World Evolved - Machine Learning Powered by Dr Norman Lee, Senior Lecturer at Singapore University of Technology and Design |
12:00pm Group Photo & Lunch & Networking with Prof Leong Hon Wai, Associate Professor at National University of Singapore School of Computing |
1:00pm Lightning Talks 2D Challenge – Pedagogy for Multidisciplinary Computing Assignment Teaching AI Concepts with Python and Project Malmo |
1:30pm Growth in a Coding Classroom: A Mindset Perspective by Ms Juliana Ung, Founder and educator at LCCL Coding Academy |
2:00pm Experiences in developing students for coding, data science and artificial intelligence by Dr Chen Weiqiang, Lecturer at Eunoia Junior College |
2:30pm Python for Experiential Learning in STEAM by Mr Praveen Patil, Physics Lecturer at GSS Belgaum, maintainer of SPOSH Code2Learn repository |
3:00pm Python vs C - Experience in implementing data structures and algorithms by Mr Tamim Shahriar, Engineering Manager, Grab, author of bestselling children programming books in Bangladesh |
3:30pm CoderDojo @ SG by Mr Alvin Ho, CoderDojo @ Nee Soon East Community Club |
4:00pm Panel Discussion & AUA (Ask Us Anything) |
5:00pm Lucky Draw & Closing |
Attending
If you are interested in participating in the Education Summit, please register at tinyurl.com/pyconapac18edusummit. Registration is open untill Friday, 18 May 2018 or when slots run out. Participation in the Education Summit is free (thanks to our sponsors) but as this is an invite-only for-educators event, only eligible participants will be confirmed via email. If you have a question, please contact pyedu@computing.sg
About
PyCon APAC is a conference about the programming language Python. It is a community effort driven by the members of the Python User Group Singapore.
When & Where
When:
May 31st - June 2nd 2018
Where:
National University of Singapore Computing 1 (COM1) / Level 2
13 Computing Drive Singapore 117417
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