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June 18, 2014
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Shepherding Unicorns

How to be a good web design mentor.

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June 18, 2014
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Transcript

  1. Shepherding Unicorns HOW TO BE A GOOD WEB DESIGN MENTOR

  2. the state of web education

  3. 0 250 500 750 1000 Now Future

  4. unicorns

  5. be the mentor you want to see in the world

  6. what do we teach?

  7. learning how to learn

  8. self-directed learning

  9. holistic learning

  10. how do we teach?

  11. apprenticeships

  12. community

  13. Girl Develop It Dev Bootcamp Rails Girls Black Girls Code

    CoderDojo
  14. None

  15. open source

  16. why do we teach?

  17. None

  18. Jen Myers [email protected] @antiheroine