12: 'They Will Take Those Ideas Back and Improve Their Own Code.' with Kane Pittard

In this episode I had an insightful discussion with Kane Pittard. Kane is a Humanities and computer science teacher from Butler College in Butler, WA. He is responsible for the creation and ongoing development of the Butler College IT teaching program. Kane’s passion is using digital learning across all learning areas. Previous to becoming a teacher in 2013, he worked as a systems administrator and owned computer consulting business. I would to thank Kane for taking time away from his family, work, and fighting the time difference to talk with me on the podcast. Kanes's school - https://www.butlercollege.wa.edu.au/ Twitter: @kanepittard - https://twitter.com/kanepittard Show links Swift - https://swift.org/ BYOD - Bring Your Own Device - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_your_own_device ICT - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_communications_technology Digital Natives - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_native Swift Playgrounds - https://appsto.re/us/eHUj2.i Learn to Code 1 & 2 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/swift-playgrounds-learn-to/id1118578018?mt=11 Learn to Code 3 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/swift-playgrounds-learn-to/id1173709121?mt=11 Scratch - https://scratch.mit.edu/ Xcode - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id497799835?mt=12 Into to App Development with Swift curriculum [Teacher] - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1118577558?mt=11) & [Student] - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1118575552?mt=11) Fraser Speirs - Episode 8 - https://www.swiftteacher.org/podcast/2017/6/13/8-swift-makes-it-very-hard-to-get-it-right-by-accident-which-is-good-with-fraser-speirs Ada Programming Language - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language) Python - https://www.python.org/ Daniel Budd - Episode 4 - https://www.swiftteacher.org/podcast/2017/4/18/4-create-engaging-content-in-swift-with-daniel-budd David Brown - Episode 9 - https://www.swiftteacher.org/podcast/2017/6/21/9-i-have-a-student-who-says-leave-me-alone-i-want-to-solve-it-with-david-brown Apple's Human Interface Guideline (aka HIG) - https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/overview/design-principles/ Keynote - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/keynote/id361285480?mt=8 Douglas Kiang - Episode 2 - https://www.swiftteacher.org/podcast/2017/3/14/2-i-think-its-about-the-friendliest-language-ive-ever-coded-in-with-douglas-kiang iOS Read Screen Accessiblity Feature - https://www.howtogeek.com/258218/how-to-make-your-ios-device-read-articles-books-and-more-out-loud-to-you/ Popplet - https://popplet.com/ Sphero - http://www.sphero.com/ Lego Mindstorms - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms Parrot Drone - https://www.parrot.com/us/drones#fly-and-film-an-adventure-with-your-drone John Hattie - University of Melbourne - https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person428067 Favorite Podcasts or Media You Should Learn to Program: Christian Genco - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfBWk4nw440 The History of Rome - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-rome/id261654474?mt=2 Ancient Greek History - https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/ancient-greek-history-audio/id341651987?mt=10 Ask Swift Teacher Ask a question of the Swift Teacher community. Tweet your questions to @_SwiftTeacher - https://twitter.com/_SwiftTeacher using the #askSwiftTeacher hashtag or in the ask Swift Teacher channel in the Swift Teacher Slack Team (join using the link below). Join the Swift Teachers Slack Channel - http://swiftteacher.me You can find also find the show notes and other information on the Swift Teacher blog: [Swift Teacher Blog - http://www.swiftteacher.org/podcast

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