Episode 057: Virtual School

03:04 Welcome to Parent Driven Development

03:30 Virtual school with school age children

• Kindergarten, middle school, high school
• Missing out on the life experiences
• Pros and cons

05:25 Exposure to other students

• Not enough time to build up relationships within the zoom chats
• Teachers stepping up to engage the kids with each other and in class
• Tough in kindergarten because the kids can’t break off without a teacher

11:29 Less the supervising time on virtual school

• First week, very hands on, but less and less over time
• Kids have learned to adapt quite quickly

14:00 Extra hands to help

• Parents can do work, but not focused work while supervising zoom school
• Extra help definitely makes a difference

15:45 Homework

• Losing track of how to turn in assignments for middle/highschoolers
• No take home HW for kindergarten
• State assessments
• Perk - you can rewatch the class video if you have questions

21:45 Teacher Props!

• Powerpoints
• Yoga and stretch breaks
• Partner reads
• Side chats
• Parent updates

25:00 Is life better with zoom school?

• Allison is satisfied with the cards dealt, but mourns the first day of school memories
• Chris thinks in some ways, it’s better

30:15 Genius / fail moments

• Chris figures out how to turn facetime back on his son’s devices, but has to keep track of his use.. #genius/fail
• Allison plans her move around the time of year her kids would need to change seasonal clothes. Less work, more organized #genius

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Episode 025: Girls in STEM

00:34 Why Joulez?

• Getting girls and women engaged in technology
• Lending opportunity for girls in the 8-12 age bracket
• The Juelez Formula:
  • Identity
  • Vocabulary
  • Skills
  • Tribe

06:05 Designing Into Motivation

• Fixed vs Growth Mindset
• Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach
• Marrying fun and education
• Programming and Computer Programming

15:35 How can parents help?

• Context
• Vocabulary
• Building with them

22:38 Gender

• Expanding contexts in which we engage children in STEM
• Where are the toys that build empathy in boys?
• Providing opportunity for people of all sorts
• As a society we have a lot of unlearning to do

33:41 Genius / Fail Moments

• Chris: Snow day stress and frustration. (#Fail)
• Jess: Providing printed pictures for her son (due to his lack of having access electronically)! (#Genius)
• KWu: Buying a "Baby's First Chinese New Year" book....when it was his second. (#Fail)
• Stephanie: Extensive troubleshooting...when it was just a loose pin. (#Fail) Lesson learned? Troubleshooting is important! (#Genius)

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Panel

KWu
Jess Szmajda
Chris Sexton

Special Guest: Stephanie Rowe.

Episode 024: Teaching Kids to Code

01:29 Winding up in a developer evangelist role and teaching coding

02:58 Teaching younger vs older audiences

03:52 Getting kids motivated in the coding space

• Scratch

05:13 The benefits for kids who know coding literacy

• The Hour of Code

08:16 Kevin's background in coding

08:45 Using Twilio (and real-world technology and tools) in teaching kids to code

13:31 Resources & Tools

• Glitch
• CodeCombat

15:24 Is Minecraft useful?

18:11 Next level resources

• Codecademy
• Learn Python the Hard Way
• TwilioQuest

19:46 Helping passionate kids along the way (without scaring them away)

• Events, Hackathons, and Conferences
  • THAT Conference

31:05 Genius / Fail Moments

• Josh: Putting a bandaid (glass screen protector) over his daughter's broken iPad screen. (#Genius)
• Chris: Letting his daughter make pasta! (#Genius)
• Kevin: Letting his daughter make pancakes! (#Genius)

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Panel

Chris Sexton
Josh Puetz

Special Guest: Kevin Whinnery.

Episode 007: Keeping up to date with tech

00:27 Welcome back Allison

01:00 Today topic: Learning during the work day

02:47 It's ok if learning doesn't happen when your kids are little

04:14 Learning if you're a single parent is more difficult

It's more difficult if you don't have a partner to hand things off to
Real talk: you will always just have less time

7:15 Choices and Bringing your laptop along

Being efficient and aware of the time you have
But don't burn out

12:36 The pressure to always be learning

Pros and cons to these feelings
How it relates to burn out
How it related to work/life balance

15:35 Staying competitive in the industry

Tools, tips, and tricks

18:36 Learning staycations

22:33 Know how you learn and setting goals

Knowing how you learn is really important
How much do you want to learn? To what extent? etc.

23:34 Learning while you're on the clock

Convincing your employer to give you time to learn
Selling learning time to your boss

34:36 External groups like meetups, slack, etc. are extremely important for having a peer group to learn from

Support groups are super important
Coworking locally is even helpful if you can't make it to meetups, etc.

37:10 Genius / Fail moments

Chris - Conference swag as gifts for kids when you get home #Genius
Allison - I get to do 3 because it's been a while. I started a subscription to Le Tote so I can get new clothes that are nursing and postpartum body friendly #Genius
Baby has been sleeping for the entire podcast #Genius
My son didn't realize he could get out of his room on his own in the morning and he thought he had been left home alone #Fail
Josh - Labo is a set of projects made out of cardboard and it's integrated into a Nintendo Switch. It's awesome, but we haven't had a chance to do it yet. #Genius
JC -We're participating in the mulch fundraiser. My kids had to go out and hustle and sell mulch, cover fees, etc. But the fail was that my 15 year old had a snarky answering machine message on his phone and he lost a sale as a result. #Genius turned #Fail

53:00 Contact Us!

Tell us what you're learning!

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Panel:

Josh Puetz
Allison McMillan
Chris Sexton
JC Avena