Collaborative Teaching for More Effective Learning

Everyone wins when everyone is smarter, so why is it so difficult to share and
collaborate on teaching materials? See how having your courseware and other
teaching materials stored in Git and on GitHub allows students to stay in
touch, learn collaboratively, extract more knowledge, and potentially even
give back to the course materials.

Transcript

1. Collaborative Teaching for More Effective Learning 
2. Brent Beer GitHub Trainer @brntbeer github.com/brntbeer
3. “But while the funding is beginning to rebound after years of decline, the average remains about $400 less per student than it was in the 2009-10 school year.” - Zahira Torres, The Denver Post
4. Tuition rates may be decreasing or leveling off, but what is sacrificed to get students back into the classroom?
5. What are you doing to get the largest bang for your buck?
7. Are you being honest with yourself or just scared you’ll get more taken away?
8. “[The Governor’s] administration has laid out plans to strip $46 million in state funds from next year's budget, largely from higher education and health services, to finish balancing the spending plans as required by lawmakers.” -The Associated Press
9. Yikes
10. https://github.com/edu
11. How do you handle collaboration and communication?
12. Are your students even working together?
13.  My students communicate with tools like moodle and blackboard though! 
15. Moodle
17. Okay, maybe it just runs itself and it hardly needs upkeep!
18. Maybe I’ll switch to Blackboard...
21. Call your sales representative today!
22. Ok I already have Blackboard installed
23. One tool, one location for all our resources
24. Students working together doesn’t have to be hard.
25. Raise issues and questions to one place 
27. Write a comment on someone else's code 
31. Compare and Discuss  
35. Openness for all 
36. Let’s recap: Talk often and share your ideas 
37. How do teachers and students talk though?
38. Hopefully you meet a few times week and they want to wait for info
39. Send an email to the entire class
40. “[To contact all students] I use mass email from our registration system or the LMS.” - Computer Science Professor
42. What even was the change?
43. God forbid your students find a typo in a lesson plan and attempt to tell you
44. Let’s just actually improve collaboration
45. Show the changes 
47. Details 
49. Discussions can grow 
51. Issues are information treasure troves 
52. Share the work, share the triumph 
54. Make communication and collaboration always available 
55. That’s it. Right? All problems solved?
56. That’s it. Right? All problems solved?
57. Teachers aren’t in silos of isolation.
59. If students should talk to each other, so should teachers
60. How do you track changes of your notes from year to year?
61. “Every time I had an update, if I could not make the changes immediately, I put the document in a folder labeled ‘Needs Revision’... Unfortunately, when I first started working there, I had a computer fry two different times.” - High School English Teacher
62. How do you stay up to date with your material?
63. Have a substitute? How do you send them the material?
64. What if some other teacher is a subject matter expert?
65. Sharing is Caring
66. Browse logs and view diffs 
68. Make connections with other teachers 
69. Keep your substitutes up to date 
70. Reach teachers across the planet 
71. Post conference write-ups 
72. Discover new material 
74. Share your knowledge 
75. This is obviously easiest with computer science
81. “I’m not Comp Sci, I can’t do this!”
85. This works for anything
86. github.com/signup
87. github.com/edu
88. Git doesn’t have to be hard
89. youtube.com/githubguides
90. Start collaborating today
91. Go Blow Minds. Brent Beer @brntbeer Thanks