Have you been involved in, or have an interest in, teaching, training or mentoring within the tech industry?
NorthCoders are organising an evening of lightning talks to share knowledge and ideas and hear different perspectives. You will end the talk with a ‘poster hack’ where you will produce small posters to illustrate/explain a range of technical or tech-related concepts and after the event they will be compiled into a booklet!
Confirmed Lightning Talks:
- Programming analogies (Mauro Gestoso, Northcoders)
- Techniques for mentoring and being mentored (Rebekah Cooper, Co-op Digital)
- ‘Provisioning for additional obstacles to learning: Code4000 and CodeYourFuture’ (Anna Smith, Code Your Future, Code First Girls and Code4000)
- How we teach complicated stuff, with recursion as an example (Northcoders)
- What can we learn from “Daughters of destiny” to improve the way we teach? (Alan Ionita, Code Your Future)
- Zines, Sketchnotes and Visuals (Harriet Ryder, Northcoders)
Ideas for Lightning Talks (5-10 mins)
- Experiences teaching or mentoring
- Tips
- Experiences receiving teaching or mentoring
- Barriers to tech education
- Experiences volunteering or assisting at events
- How you train/onboard/develop staff
- Things that work/don’t work
- How you would teach/explain a specific subject or concept
- Teaching children
- Resources you use
- Teaching methodologies
- Teaching on online platforms
- Planning curricula
- Creative coding
- Voluntary opportunities
If you have an idea for a talk, email harriet@northcoders.com.
