10 things I learn from teaching Open Source in college for 12 months
Room B | Tue 21 Jan 2:25 p.m.–3:10 p.m.
Presented by
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Vladimir Roudakov
@VladimirAus
https://www.tomato-elephant-studio.com/
Hi, I'm Vladimir! I am an IT teacher and open source advocate. I contribute to various open source projects such as Wordpress and Drupal and run local Wordpress meetups in Brisbane, Australia.
I presented sessions and ran workshops on migration, continuous integration, automated testing, content management systems & frontend frameworks at the camps and conferences in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe and the United States.
Vladimir Roudakov
@VladimirAus
https://www.tomato-elephant-studio.com/
Abstract
I have been teaching application development for over a decade to various organisations, government departments, and the public. In 2023 I officially became a teacher and joined a local college. Over the next 12 months I taught Open Source programming languages (PHP, C# and NodeJS), frameworks and content management systems (Wordpress, Drupal) to different student cohorts. I'm going to share a number of exciting and concerning takeaways I learnt while I was teaching.
The goals of my session are to strengthen the link between the Open Source community and academia, to question a few educational institution stigmas, and to improve the way we as a community present Python to teachers and students.
I will touch upon important topics such as Artificial Intelligence AI (the good and the ugly), open source indifference, proprietary software vendor dominance, quality documentation, student reflection on real life projects, and how different content and context can change student perception of the technology.
I have been teaching application development for over a decade to various organisations, government departments, and the public. In 2023 I officially became a teacher and joined a local college. Over the next 12 months I taught Open Source programming languages (PHP, C# and NodeJS), frameworks and content management systems (Wordpress, Drupal) to different student cohorts. I'm going to share a number of exciting and concerning takeaways I learnt while I was teaching. The goals of my session are to strengthen the link between the Open Source community and academia, to question a few educational institution stigmas, and to improve the way we as a community present Python to teachers and students. I will touch upon important topics such as Artificial Intelligence AI (the good and the ugly), open source indifference, proprietary software vendor dominance, quality documentation, student reflection on real life projects, and how different content and context can change student perception of the technology.