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In this episode, Dr. Peter Dalmaris and Marcus Schappi talk with Pip Cleaves.
Pip Cleaves is the National Education Manager for Code Club Australia, a not for profit organization that has supported the development of over 18,000 clubs and 65,000 students to code every week. She also works as a Sessional Lecturer in the Education and Arts Faculty at The Australian Catholic University.
She has worked extensively within the education industry nationally and globally, and in education technology since 2005. Pip also runs a small business to provide professional learning to educators around technology.
In this discussion, Pip talks about STEM education, Code Club (where she is the National Education Manager), technology education support for teachers, schools and libraries, education volunteering, and much more.
This is Stemiverse podcast episode 15.
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Show Notes
[spp-timestamp time=”00:00″] Introduction – Introducing Pip Cleaves
[spp-timestamp time=”02:21″] Pip talks about her background, as a Japanese Translator, Japanese Teacher, Head Teacher of Learning Innovation and as National Education Manager in Code Club
[spp-timestamp time=”09:23″] Code Club: Subsidiary of the Raspberry Pi Foundation
[spp-timestamp time=”12:32″] The basic criteria for becoming a volunteer in Code Club
[spp-timestamp time=”13:54″] Programming Languages offered in Code Club (Scratch, HTML/CSS, Python, Raspberry Pi, Sonic Pi, Sense HAT) and how kids can become members
[spp-timestamp time=”16:11″] How do HTML & Python relate to Scratch and examples of how students can apply them
[spp-timestamp time=”18:32″] 11-year-old graduates of Code Club are well versed in Programming: They gain Confidence, Problem Solving Skills and a base for further knowledge
[spp-timestamp time=”19:37″] Loving bugs, celebrating failure and making things better
[spp-timestamp time=”20:34″] Why is Programming important? Problems and Programming go together
[spp-timestamp time=”22:22″] Raspberry Pi allows you to see how computers work from the inside
[spp-timestamp time=”25:42″] Future life skills children develop from learning programming
[spp-timestamp time=”26:27″] Code Club content mapped to years 3-6 of the new Digital Technologies Curriculum
[spp-timestamp time=”28:29″] Kindergarten kids learning digital technology: bit.ly/ccautechnologies
[spp-timestamp time=”31:07″] Differences between now and the past century concerning learning skills and mapping success
[spp-timestamp time=”34:40″] What would Pip do as a benevolent dictator of education?
[spp-timestamp time=”37:00″] 60 students – 3 teachers: A hub of 60, a pod of 20 and a huddle of 3
[spp-timestamp time=”38:28″] Organized chaos
[spp-timestamp time=”39:21″] Project NEST at Kurri Kurri High School
[spp-timestamp time=”39:53″] More schools joining the evolution and change of education
[spp-timestamp time=”40:57″] How do schools manage to do that: “with fantastic leadership”
[spp-timestamp time=”41:53″] Convincing the parents: emphasize the importance of future-focused learning
[spp-timestamp time=”42:34″] 5-10 years in advance
[spp-timestamp time=”46:35″] What about creative subjects?
[spp-timestamp time=”48:17″] Pip’s latest Project: Competition of projects at Moonhack
[spp-timestamp time=”52:18″] Rapid Fire Questions
[spp-timestamp time=”52:24″] Who has been the most influential in shaping the way you work: Dianne Marshall
[spp-timestamp time=”53:24″] Favorite programming languages: Scratch
[spp-timestamp time=”55:01″] Advice to new educators: Just do it and learn along with the students
[spp-timestamp time=”55:30″] Professional Development Conferences and Workshops: EduTech, EduChange
[spp-timestamp time=”57:08″] Pip’s Contact Information: Code Club Website, Email: [email protected], Twitter: @pipcleaves