It is well known that code (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python) is now an essential subject for students of all ages. Many US states and countries around the world, are making code a core part of their curriculum.
… The challenge many schools are facing though, is finding teachers to teach the coding classes.
StudioWeb’s Professional Development in Teaching Code
After working with many schools in the US and abroad, StudioWeb has developed an effective and engaging professional development program for teachers who have never written a single line of code!
Learn to teach code as you learn the course material for your classes
Teacher’s are super busy, and so it makes sense for them to learn to teach code, with the course material that they will be using to teach their students with. It’s a two for one!! The StudioWeb program has proven to fit that role perfectly.
How does it work?
Teachers do the StudioWeb courses on the subjects they will be teaching … like HTML, JavaScript, Python.
As teachers learn to code, they will also be learning the structure of the lessons, quizzes, projects and the code challenges!
Now teachers know how to code, and they know the courses they will be teaching with!
So rather than learning the coding languages, then having to find or develop a curriculum … professional development with StudioWeb means you get both at the same time.
… Needless to say, teachers love it!
If you are interested in learning how to teach code with our teacher approved (and proven!) curriculum, you are invited to contact us.
I am excited to announce our upcoming Python course: Powerful Python 3.
A beginners course covering Python 3, students go from an absolute neophyte, to having a working knowledge of object oriented Python. Course is based on Python 3.6.
StudioWeb course details:
In addition to a set of comprehensive and engaging videos, Power Python 3 will include quizzing, code challenges, and gamification that is provided by the StudioWeb app. Your students will learn Python easily, and they will have fun too!
Each video lesson is supported by 4-5 quiz questions, that are made up of both code challenges and multiple choice questions. All our courses leverage the recursive spiral teaching method that helps us to achieve great outcomes with students.
Professor’s Dream:
From a professor’s perspective, StudioWeb provides classroom automation tools that makes it effortless to manage multiple classrooms. In fact, we have many teachers who simply take on the role of classroom facilitator. StudioWeb does the teaching!
At the time of this writing, we are just finalizing the course in terms of the range of topics covered, from the basics to OOP … I will include the table of contents at the bottom of this post. Thus far 50 lessons are complete. The course should have ~55 lessons.
I finally got around to getting this video of me on television, talking about the importance of students learning to code. It comes down to two big reasons:
A huge number of high paying jobs in programming and coding.
Brain training: learning to code is like pushups for the mind!
Watch my interview to learn more:
If you want to learn more about learning or teaching code, check out StudioWeb.com
About 6 years ago, I began helping schools bring code into the classroom. My app and curriculum (StudioWeb) was originally conceived from my own ideas and experiences … that took us about 70% of the way there. Over the last 6 years though, StudioWeb has been highly refined, with the help from many teachers and students.
… You can’t beat real-world feedback, especially from students who are not shy to tell you what they think!
A new way to think about teaching
StudioWeb represents one of the new strategies (of teaching,) that schools are starting to embrace all over the world. A way where teachers are NOT expected to be masters of many subjects. Rather, teachers facilitate classrooms, and proven interactive video based courses, do the actual daily teaching.
… The best tools though, provide much more than just a set of videos and lesson plans.
I’ve been in the web development business for over 20yrs now, and one consistent problem for many well meaning nerds, is the over engineering of web apps. This extends to all development as well, not just the web developers.
… The old KISS acronym “Keep it simple, stupid”, seems to be forgotten with every new generation of developers.
So today we have once again, new and overly complex frameworks and apps being thrust upon us. I vlogged about this recently in this video:
Shameless self promotion:
If you like web development and you like things simple and easy, then you will probably like my Interactive Web Developer course package – it’s the best I’ve ever made and people love it.
I am writing just to say how happy I am with the courses. Although, I am a member of Lynda and Udemi, your courses are way better. For me you are the HIDDEN GEM, the YODA of web design. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Every now and then I get the chance to visit a school using StudioWeb, and these visits have always proven to be invaluable in terms of refining our curriculum and app.
Here is the interview with the some students and their teacher:
What to take away from this video:
Students found some questions too easy – and the learned to write real code! This is where the spiral teaching method comes into play.
Students really liked the courses – you can see them laughing just thinking about the questions!
The teacher never taught code before – and got great results.
StudioWeb’s auto grading and tracking made it easy for the teacher.
If you would like to try a demo of any of our courses:
Yes, after 6 years of working closely with many teachers and schools, we are proud to say that StudioWeb is an amazing tool for teachers and an amazing learning experience for students.
No matter who you ask, teachers and students love StudioWeb! That’s why we have 100% renewals!
Coming for summer 2017, StudioWeb will be offering a Python certification course. Like all our certificates, it is a two stage process to be StudioWeb certified:
Students must successfully pass the StudioWeb Python course.
Upon passing, students are eligible to take the Python Certification exam.
Printable certificates with unique verifiable IDs, will be issued to those passing the certification exam. Certificate IDs are unique to the certificate and are verifiable live against our StudioWeb certificate database.
Our new course ‘Powerful Python 3’ will be out soon!
This is a brand new course that teaches Python 3.6, and is aimed at total beginners to programming. It’s a great course for first year computer science students and other learners.
Not just any Python course, it’s a StudioWeb Python course!
StudioWeb’s courses are unique in many ways, but at the end of the day, all that matters is the exceptional results we achieve.
StudioWeb’s Python course has the same easy to understand and fun video lessons (created by a published author, and highly experienced educator) that are found in all our courses. The videos combined with a our unique quizzing and code challenges, set in a gamified learning environment, promotes student engagement and amazing retention.
… Your students will quickly learn key programming concepts and techniques, that will allow them to explore computer science with a solid foundation.
Besides teaching the basics of programming:
Variables, collection types in Python
Data types and type conversion
Functions, modules
Object oriented programming techniques and principles
… Students will be exposed best coding practices, tools that developers use, working with Python on different OS’ and Python’s place in the programming world. So StudioWeb’s ‘Powerful Python 3’ goes way beyond your typical Python course!
Sample Python video lesson: drawing with Python:
The following video lesson from Powerful Python 3, teaches students how to use conditional statements and a loop, to animate with the Python Turtle module:
Powerful Python 3 will be released in April 2017. Like all StudioWeb courses, Powerful Python 3 will come with hours of fine grained video lessons, comprehensive code challenges and quizzing, suggested classroom activities, powerfully accurate auto-grading, and real time student activity tracking.
If you would like to check out the video lessons before we release the course, please feel free to contact me.
We’ve released some very significant updates to StudioWeb this year, both in terms of the course content, and the application. Here is a short list:
StudioWeb 2 will be retired this year, and all new classrooms will be deployed to the StudioWeb 3.
We are renaming (and updating) Beginners HTML to HTML5 since it is much more than a beginners course.
We are releasing a NEW Python course.
We are now providing a grading rubric for the projects – usable even for teacher who don’t know code.
We are adding to the HTML5 course projects, including lessons from teachers who have used SW in classrooms.
Student time tracking will be back this year.
We are providing a new Teacher’s QuickStart Guide that includes classroom activities (note taking, paired coding, peer-to-peer tutoring etc), the new grading rubric, and other useful things to jump start a teacher.
