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phildini @[email protected] · 2024-12-20 · 04:45 UTC

@G047_H4xx0r_M4573R_814573R @MaggieFero this was tongue-in-cheek, as the rest of the thread indicates more clearly.

I've worked on the #BeeWare project for nearly a decade, which is a pretty successful attempt to make cross-platform (iOS, macOS, Windows, Linux, Android) apps in pure python.

We're always looking for contributors if this is an area you care about.

#beeware

phildini @[email protected] · 2025-05-14 · 19:01 UTC

I had wanted to be able to search through #alamtg meeting minutes for a while, and this was the kick in the pants I needed. In mid-August of 2022, I had a working system for fetching minutes from the #alamtg legistar, and using s3-ocr to put that into a sqlite database running under datasette.

Once I had this working, @MaggieFero immediately asked for #oakmtg, and luckily it was the same underlying system.

So one month into the project, we had 50k pages across two cities. Not bad!

2/n

#alamtg #oakmtg

Margaret Fero @MaggieFero · 2026-05-14 · 20:52 UTC

Remember to use your scaffolding to keep students in that zone of proximal development, and *always* reflect! - Elizabeth Bacon @ the #pycon Education Summit

#pycon

Margaret Fero @[email protected] · 2026-05-14 · 20:52 UTC

Remember to use your scaffolding to keep students in that zone of proximal development, and *always* reflect! - Elizabeth Bacon @ the #pycon Education Summit

#pycon

Margaret Fero @MaggieFero · 2026-05-14 · 20:51 UTC

When we design instruction, we must think about what kinds of cognitive processes we want students to engage in and what kinds of authentic tasks encourage that process.

Motivate students with context, explain how the skill is really used, scaffold enough for students to complete a meaningful portion of the task, and then assess/reflect on it. - Elizabeth Bacon @ the #pycon Education Summit

#pycon

Margaret Fero @[email protected] · 2026-05-14 · 20:51 UTC

When we design instruction, we must think about what kinds of cognitive processes we want students to engage in and what kinds of authentic tasks encourage that process.

Motivate students with context, explain how the skill is really used, scaffold enough for students to complete a meaningful portion of the task, and then assess/reflect on it. - Elizabeth Bacon @ the #pycon Education Summit

#pycon

Margaret Fero @MaggieFero · 2026-05-14 · 20:37 UTC

We still have many authentic skills and practices that students will be very much expected to use as future developers, including the decomposition, using documentation, and communication! - Elizabeth Bacon @ the #pycon Education Summit

#pycon

Margaret Fero @[email protected] · 2026-05-14 · 20:37 UTC

We still have many authentic skills and practices that students will be very much expected to use as future developers, including the decomposition, using documentation, and communication! - Elizabeth Bacon @ the #pycon Education Summit

#pycon

Margaret Fero @MaggieFero · 2026-05-14 · 20:36 UTC

CS Students have always been able to copy from StackOverflow, so giving the right answer without understanding is not new. However, students are newly extra-tempted to offload cognitive work in ways that do not serve them well, and there are distractions with screens. - Elizabeth Bacon @ the #pycon Education Summit

#pycon

Margaret Fero @[email protected] · 2026-05-14 · 20:36 UTC

CS Students have always been able to copy from StackOverflow, so giving the right answer without understanding is not new. However, students are newly extra-tempted to offload cognitive work in ways that do not serve them well, and there are distractions with screens. - Elizabeth Bacon @ the #pycon Education Summit

#pycon

Margaret Fero @MaggieFero · 2026-05-14 · 20:31 UTC

We ate lunch, I'm awake, and up next at the #pycon Education Summit is Elizabeth Bacon with a talk on Scaffolding CS Activities! 🎉

#pycon

Margaret Fero @[email protected] · 2026-05-14 · 20:31 UTC

We ate lunch, I'm awake, and up next at the #pycon Education Summit is Elizabeth Bacon with a talk on Scaffolding CS Activities! 🎉

#pycon

Margaret Fero @MaggieFero · 2026-05-14 · 16:23 UTC

Such a great point from @sheena at the #pycon education summit: our students aren't learning in the same environment we did! Things that were obvious to us, like Sheena's example of learning return vs print in a compiled language, may no longer be NEARLY so obvious in the tech stack our students are actually learning!

I used a similar example in my #nbpy talk this year, where my students expect that clicking "no" on a modal will block them (because during their tech journey it often has!). I love this generalized observation, though.

So many student empathy problems could be anticipated by considering in advance how your students' environment differs from the environment you learned in.

#pycon #nbpy

Margaret Fero @[email protected] · 2026-05-14 · 16:23 UTC

Such a great point from @sheena at the #pycon education summit: our students aren't learning in the same environment we did! Things that were obvious to us, like Sheena's example of learning return vs print in a compiled language, may no longer be NEARLY so obvious in the tech stack our students are actually learning!

I used a similar example in my #nbpy talk this year, where my students expect that clicking "no" on a modal will block them (because during their tech journey it often has!). I love this generalized observation, though.

So many student empathy problems could be anticipated by considering in advance how your students' environment differs from the environment you learned in.

#pycon #nbpy

Margaret Fero @[email protected] · 2026-05-14 · 16:23 UTC

Such a great point from @sheena at the #pycon education summit: our students aren't learning in the same environment we did! Things that were obvious to us, like Sheena's example of learning return vs print in a compiled language, may no longer be NEARLY so obvious in the tech stack our students are actually learning!

I used a similar example in my #nbpy talk this year, where my students expect that clicking "no" on a modal will block them (because during their tech journey it often has!). I love this generalized observation, though.

So many student empathy problems could be anticipated by considering in advance how your students' environment differs from the environment you learned in.

#pycon #nbpy

Margaret Fero @[email protected] · 2026-05-14 · 16:23 UTC

Such a great point from @sheena at the #pycon education summit: our students aren't learning in the same environment we did! Things that were obvious to us, like Sheena's example of learning return vs print in a compiled language, may no longer be NEARLY so obvious in the tech stack our students are actually learning!

I used a similar example in my #nbpy talk this year, where my students expect that clicking "no" on a modal will block them (because during their tech journey it often has!). I love this generalized observation, though.

So many student empathy problems could be anticipated by considering in advance how your students' environment differs from the environment you learned in.

#nbpy #pycon

Margaret Fero @[email protected] · 2026-05-14 · 16:23 UTC

Such a great point from @sheena at the #pycon education summit: our students aren't learning in the same environment we did! Things that were obvious to us, like Sheena's example of learning return vs print in a compiled language, may no longer be NEARLY so obvious in the tech stack our students are actually learning!

I used a similar example in my #nbpy talk this year, where my students expect that clicking "no" on a modal will block them (because during their tech journey it often has!). I love this generalized observation, though.

So many student empathy problems could be anticipated by considering in advance how your students' environment differs from the environment you learned in.

#pycon #nbpy

Margaret Fero @MaggieFero · 2026-05-14 · 16:13 UTC