Education Summit at VIVISTOP Orchard, *SCAPE, #05-07A/B, 2 Orchard Link, Singapore 237978.
On Tuesday 25 June 2019, PyCon SG 2019 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!
Schedule
8:00am Registration & Breakfast |
8:50am Opening by Dr Liew Beng Keat, Deputy Director at Republic Polytechnic, BDFL PyCon APAC |
9:00am Introduction to VIVITA by Mr Lee Hoi Leong, APAC Business Development Director at Mistletoe |
9:15am Professional Software Development. Can it be taught? by Mr Ivan Zimine, Fellow human at Odd-e |
9:45am Transferring Python skills learned in game-based learning environments over to real-world environments by Prof Chris Boesch, Associate Professor at National University of Singapore ALSET |
10:15am Solving operational challenges while teaching by Mr Laurence Putra, Software engineer at PayPal |
10:45am Developing students’ computational thinking skills through interest-driven activities by Ms Liu Weiling, Computing teacher at Jurong Pioneer Junior College |
11:15am Can we use games or gamification to help students learn programming? by Dr Oka Kurniawan, Senior Lecturer at Singapore University of Technology and Design |
11:45am Google CS Outreach Programs - A DHS Teacher's Perspective by Mr Gi Soong Chee, Computing Teacher at Dunman High School, with Dr Norman Lee, Senior Lecturer at Singapore University of Technology and Design |
12:00noon Who's Who by Mr Gi Soong Chee, Computing Teacher at Dunman High School |
12:15pm Lunch Please network :) |
1:15pm Lightning Talks Some student misconceptions on Python programming Making Python our Digital Mother Tongue Programming Education in Taiwan Lessons Learnt from Teaching NLP ClassDo - Virtual Collaboration Rooms Transforming pedagogy with Python |
2:00pm On the Democratising of Public AI Education in Singapore by Mr Rishabh Anand, Student at National Junior College |
2:30pm Using Google Colab for Data Science/AI education and Kaggle competitions by Dr Chen Weiqiang, Lecturer at Eunoia Junior College |
2:50pm Project Malmo with malmopy by Dr Melvin Zhang, Computational Thinkerer |
3:10pm Illuminate Data with Visualisation by Ms Drishti Jain, Computer Engineer at heart |
3:35pm Teaching Programming the Hard Way - Writing Books by Mr Tamim Shahriar, Engineering Manager, Grab, author of bestselling programming books in Bangladesh |
3:50pm OpenSUTD by Timothy Liu Kaihui, Student Researcher at Singapore University of Technology and Design |
4:15pm Supercharge your Programming, Data Science and Machine Learning by Ryzak Kamis, AI Engineer at AI Singapore |
4:40pm Conversation with Prof Leong by Prof Leong Hon Wai, Associate Professor at National University of Singapore, School of Computing |
5:05pm Lucky Draw & Closing |
Attending
Registration is closed. For queries, please contact pyedu@computing.sg
