Episode 006: Getting Technology Into the Hands of Children with David Bock




Greater Than Code show

Summary: <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Panelists: </b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/CoralineAda"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coraline Ada Ehmke</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/geeksam"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sam Livingston-Gray</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="http://twitter.com/therubyrep"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mandy Moore</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Guest Starring:</b> <a href="https://twitter.com/bokmann"><span style="font-weight: 400;">David Bock<br> </span></a><a href="http://loudouncodes.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Loudoun Computer Science Initiative<br> </span></a><a href="https://www.livingsocial.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">LivingSocial</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Show Notes:</b></p> <p><b>00:17</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Welcome to “PC Principal Shit!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”</span></p> <p><b>00:35</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – David Bock Introduction and “Smoked Pork” Discussion</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Tweet <a href="http://twitter.com/therubyrep">@therubyrep</a> with your best Austin, Texas “smoked pork” and/or barbecue recommendations!!</strong></p> <p><b>04:56</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Teaching Kids Computer Science Concepts</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.fathers.com/watchdogs/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Watch D.O.G.S.: National Center for Fathering<br> </span></a><a href="https://code.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Code.org<br> </span></a><a href="https://code.org/learn"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hour of Code<br> </span></a><a href="https://developers.google.com/blockly/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Blockly<br> </span></a><a href="http://karel.sourceforge.net/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Karel the Robot<br> </span></a><a href="https://www.tealsk12.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">TEALS: Computer Science in Every High School</span></a></p> <p><b>12:50</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Being Scientifically Literate</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFLYe_YAQYQ"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Neil deGrasse Tyson YouTube Video</span></a></p> <p><b>14:13</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Gender and Peer Pressure Dynamics</span></p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">On <a href="https://twitter.com/greaterthancode">@greaterthancode</a> with <a href="https://twitter.com/bokmann">@bokmann</a>. He had a student who realized “Oh! Computers aren’t smart! They’re just dumb, really really fast!” <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2.3/72x72/1f600.png" alt="