Web Apprenticeships: How & Why We Do Them

Presented at SXSW 2014 by Drew Clemens and Neil Renicker.

Transcript

1. APPRENTICESHIPS @drewtclemens @neilrenicker How and Why We Do Them
2. WEB APPRENTICESHIPS: HOW AND WHY WE DO THEM WHY
3. Because we are thankful
4. Rob
5. Because traditional education isn’t enough
6. WEB APPRENTICESHIPS: HOW AND WHY WE DO THEM “APPRENTICESHIP”
7. Intentionality Investment Immersion
8. How we do it
9. WEB APPRENTICESHIPS: HOW AND WHY WE DO THEM UNIQUE BY DESIGN
10. BECAUSE EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT
11. BECAUSE
 AVAILABLE RESOURCES 
 DOESN’T MEAN 
 GOOD RESOURCES Image:
12. BECAUSE LEARNING IS A DIALOGUE
13. Image: http://www.pbs.org
14. Image: http://www.cleveland.com
15. Image: http://www.zeldman.com
18. STORIES WEB APPRENTICESHIPS: HOW AND WHY WE DO THEM
19. STORIES
20. Pre-apprenticeship me
24. SOLITUDE
25. 3 FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES
26. A way of learning: Second-hand Smoke
27. Image: HARD WORK ISN’T ENOUGH
28. My apprenticeship helped connect hard work with the right kind work
29. Second-hand smoke
30. I learned advanced frontend techniques in only six months.
31. A way of thinking: Learning the language
32. Sitting With the Masters
33. Technical concepts that used to be fuzzy, now began to fit into firm mental models.
34. A way of working: Being Lazy and Collaboration
35. “Every time I do things more than once, a little bell goes off in my head: ‘Hmm… I wonder if there's a way to automate this.’”
36. CURIOSITY Image:
37. Being immersed in the apprenticeship forced me to stay uncomfortable.
38. COLLABORATION
39. WEB APPRENTICESHIPS: HOW AND WHY WE DO THEM THE CURRICULUM
40. The Curriculum ‣ Phase 1: Source Control and Programming Basics ‣ Phase 2: Frontend Development: Markup, Style, Interaction, and Preprocessing ‣ Phase 3: MVC Frameworks, Databases, and Personal Project
41. The Curriculum: Only A Start curriculum + reviews + speaking + pairing + writing = APPRENTICESHIP
42. github.com/sparkbox/ apprenticeships The Curriculum: Only A Start
49. WEB APPRENTICESHIPS: HOW AND WHY WE DO THEM WE DO IT 
 BECAUSE WE CAN
50. Right Resources Right People Right Commitment
51. Inspiration ‣ Thoughtbot
 apprentice.io
 ‣ 8th Light
 8thlight.com/apprenticeship
 ‣ https://s3.amazonaws.com/ apprentice.us/Apprenticeship- Programs.pdf
52. Inspiration ‣ Sparkbox Apprenticeship Repo
 github.com/sparkbox/apprenticeships
 ‣ Sparkbox Foundry
 seesparkbox.com/foundry
 ‣ Slides
 speakerdeck.com/drewclemens
53. THANKS! @drewtclemens @neilrenicker