Any #compsci teachers who use GitHub Codespaces (or similar) for teaching? We're a Chromebook school and can't put student devices into developer mode because of reasons. Codespaces seems like a good fit for different runtimes, but I have zero experience.
Any tips or thoughts would be appreciated. We're hoping to start in fall of 2024, so I have some time to tinker.
I wrote this last night and really feeling it again today while I power through and get students to think about how to leave productive feedback on their peers' work.
Ok, I got that blog post out. I'm still trying to refine my grading system without tearing it all down. Curious if others have thoughts. Please get in touch with ideas if something resonates.
@brianb@edutooters@SRLevine
I really like the idea of SBG, though have never tried to implement it.
On thing I did to reduce grading is make most work practice. Then they turn in one problem to demonstrate they learned the topic. 60% of the grade on this problem is their explanations/reflection of their process and what they learned.
I grade on a rubric and give them a descriptive jared: excellent, acceptable, developing, or needs improvement. They have to look in gradebook to see points.
10 years ago, teacher Twitter was extremely helpful to me. There's the #teaching hashtag here, which is nice, but are most people still on X? Or worse, Facebook?
Trying to build that side of my timeline back up. Boots appreciated along with recommendations of who to follow.
@brianb@NewScience101@edutooters Facebook has some amazing groups relevant to science, etc. they are more focused. Are you a #tcea member? We have free membership drive in October and that would give you access to TCEA Community which has over 80k educators via Mobilize.io community. Learn more at https://tcea.org