About me

• Creator 👩‍🎨
• Pythonista at 🧡
• Front End Coach at Laboratoria 👩‍💻👩‍🏫
• Made in El Alto 🏔️

Talk's goal

Show key concepts to help you improve the way you share tech knowledge.

Open Code⋅Open Science⋅Open Education

A lot of the material derives from:

• https://www.metadocencia.org/
• https://education.rstudio.com/trainers/#info created by Greg Wilson
• https://carpentries.github.io/instructor-training

Welcome teachers :)

👋 Introduce yourself in the chat 💬

• Name
• Location
• Current role
• Have you ever taught technology?

Probably you are:

• Developer
• DevOps
• SysAdmin
• Someone learning tech

You want to

Teach Technology 👩‍🏫

How many years teachers spend in college?

5 years

🎓

To teach

5 years

🎓

0 years

🙋‍♀️

To teach

💡 Learning to teach is key to share your knowledge effectively in tech

Key concepts to teach 🙌

Key concepts to teach

• Learner stages
• Mental Models

Learner Stages

🤓👣

Learner Stages 👣

• Novices

• Competent practitioners

• Experts

Novices

Write in the chat characteristics about them💭

Algunas características

• Hacen las cosas de memoria
• Hacen preguntas sin sentido
• Usan términos incorrectos
• No diferencian qué es relevante
• Les falta confianza

Competents

They can solve normal tasks

Experts

They can work on special cases

Mental

Models

🧠

fuente: https://commoncog.com/blog/teaching-tech-together/

Give it a try...

Imagine a MAP 🗺️

Novice Mental Model

Source: https://carpentries.github.io/instructor-training/02-practice-learning/

Competent Mental Model

Source: https://carpentries.github.io/instructor-training/02-practice-learning/

Expert Mental Model

Source: https://carpentries.github.io/instructor-training/02-practice-learning/

Be careful with the blind spot from the experts

How do we help our students?

🌟

Novice -> Competent

Competent -> Expert

Help them to BUILD

🧠 models

Please avoid this

👉

• Flood with facts

• Use of telepathy

Please DO this

👉

Lots of examples and explanations until it makes "click"

Create formative evaluations

Identify wrong models 🔎

How to design a lesson?

Think
Fast
and Slow

QHIP NAYR UÑTASIS SARNAQAPXAÑAN

Long term memory

• Big size of storage

• Slow access

Short term memory

• Small size

• Fast Access

How small is it?

7 ± 2

Your lesson should introduce 7±2 new concepts

But the most important is

Be kind
💛