Teaching in Tech

Slides for Meetup talks by Teresa Holfeld and Thomas Hedeler

Transcript

1. Hamburg Coding School Welcome to the Hamburg Education and Technology Meetup
2. Tonight’s Schedule: Lightning Talk: What my professor taught me about teaching by Teresa Holfeld Talk: How to teach so that people understand by Thomas Hedeler Talk: A digitalized approach to managing small education institutions by Benjamin Flum & Caroline Santos
3. What my professors taught me about teaching
4. What my professors taught me about teaching March 2011: Bachelor of Science Computer Science and Media Bauhaus-Universität Weimar March 2014: Master of Science Information and Media Technologies Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
5. What my professors taught me about teaching
7. What my professors taught me about teaching
8. What my professors taught me about teaching “Writing texts is not easy. If English is not your native language, you may make mistakes in grammar or style. In my Bachelor thesis, I use Amazon Mechanical Turk for proofreading. This can be automated and is much cheaper than hiring a professional proofreader.”
9. What my professors taught me about teaching
10. What my professors taught me about teaching “Writing texts is not easy. If English is not your native language, you may make mistakes in grammar or style. In my Bachelor thesis, I use Amazon Mechanical Turk for proofreading. This can be automated and is much cheaper than hiring a professional proofreader.”
11. What my professors taught me about teaching Giving a talk: • What is the problem? • Why is it a problem? • What is your solution? • Why is it a good solution? Go into more detail about your solution from there.
12. Book recommendations Langer, Schulz von Thun, Tausch: Sich verständlich ausdrücken
13. Book recommendations Martin Cutts: Oxford Guide to Plain English
14. What my professors taught me about teaching Giving a talk: • What is the problem? • Why is it a problem? • What is your solution? • Why is it a good solution? Go into more detail about your solution from there.
15. What my professors taught me about teaching Lessons learned: • If you don’t understand, it’s not necessarily your fault. • If you are teaching, ask if everyone understood. If they are quiet, that means: no. • If you need to introduce a new topic, start with the problem, and then show the solution.
16. Tonight’s Schedule: Lightning Talk: What my professor taught me about teaching by Teresa Holfeld Talk: How to teach so that people understand by Thomas Hedeler Q&A / Discussion: Teaching in Tech Talk: A digitalized approach to managing small education institutions by Benjamin Flum & Caroline Santos
17. How to teach so that people understand This talk will have three Parts: • Learning • Teaching • The really important stuff
18. Part 1: Learning Life == Learning
19. Learning DNA is the memory - the genes do the learning
20. Learning No-brain-creature vs. first-brain-creature
21. Learning Keep the important stuff, ditch the unimportant stuff.
22. Learning Associative memory - don’t think of a polar bear!
23. Learning Nodes and Edges Knowledge Graph Excourse: How programmers see the world
24. Learning What is committed to memory, and who is in charge? Amygdala Fear, life-threatening situation - ptss Positive experiences Reward system (there appears to be no punishment system)
25. Learning
26. First Book Tip: The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
27. Part 2: Teaching We cannot learn without emotions! Fear, Joy, Accomplishments, Fun
28. Part 2: Teaching We cannot learn new things!
29. Part 2: Teaching What magicians never tell you!
30. Part 2: Teaching Eisenhower Matrix
31. Second Book Tip: The Seven Habits … - Stephen Covey
32. Part 2: Teaching When learning works best! Flow - Experience Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
33. Quotes “I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.” “There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn't look at all like the way you said it before. I don't know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.” “First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.” Richard P. Feynman
34. What life has taught me about teaching • Always lay out (and communicate) the agenda, but don’t stick too much to it. Perhaps set a goal. • Try to learn what the audience already knows and start from there. EB • Know ten times more than you will need for the course. • Be trustworthy, learn to listen and always appreciate feedback. EB • Make a bold statement and deliver on it. • Tension and Relaxation: Alternate intense teaching and exercises/questions and know when to shut up! • Don’t be too accurate, be creative, (you can) be more accurate later. EB • Be illogical, be contradictory, resolve this later!
35. What life has taught me about teaching • Make deliberate mistakes, the audience loves finding those. This also covers up your true mistakes ;) • Make fun of yourself only; don’t join the laughter if it is about a student’s mistake. • Bring a box of chocolate and i.e. reward the dumbest and the most difficult questions or set up a challenge. • Never use a new term without proper introduction, reward getting caught on those. EB • Let nobody fall through the cracks; NOBODY! • Questions are a true gift from a happy audience.
36. What life has taught me about teaching My most personal points: • Teaching is very rewarding • “If you want to understand something well - explain it!”
37. Part 3 My last two Points: 1. Always announce one more point, than you actually have!
38. Thank YOU! Enjoy life, keep learning and share what you know. thomas@hamburgcodingschool.com
39. Q&A / Discussion Teaching in Tech
40. Tonight’s Schedule: Lightning Talk: What my professor taught me about teaching by Teresa Holfeld Talk: How to teach so that people understand by Thomas Hedeler Q&A / Discussion: Teaching in Tech Talk: A digitalized approach to managing small education institutions by Benjamin Flum & Caroline Santos
41. Hamburg Coding School hamburgcodingschool.com hamburgcodingschool.slack.com @hhcodingschool
42. We’re looking for... • Trainers (tech) • Teachers (kids)