Coding and the Arts | Josh Caldwell

Friends, we have an awesome pod for you today! Mike and Glen discuss how teaching and politics are connected, why you shouldn’t use your advanced degree as a way to begin a social media tweet, and our guest this week is Educator and Author Josh Caldwell. Guest: Josh Caldwell Josh Caldwell develops tools and instructional materials to help bring the beauty of computer science to students and teachers across the world. He currently works on Computer Science learning and instruction projects for Google in Berlin. Prior to that, he worked on K-12 curriculum development at Code.org and was a middle school teacher in the Seattle area. He’s the author of Coding and the Arts: Connecting CS to Drawing, Music, Animation and More. Josh on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrJoshida Website: https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/search/author/%22Caldwell,%20Josh%22 Notes: ASK FOR STICKERS: https://twitter.com/MsThornborrow OnEducation is now on YouTube! Subscribe to the channel and listen to prior episodes as they are released!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu2fkhy9cnZZbggW8_K3FgQ Mike on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/misterwashburn Glen on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/irvspanish Participate on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/insideparticipate Teaching and Politics: https://twitter.com/irvspanish/status/1373756505971949576?s=20 I don’t have my masters so that kids in my class can read whatever they want: https://twitter.com/MatRyanELATeach/status/1373696014499119105?s=20 Today's podcast is brought to you by: Participate: The presenting sponsor of OnEducation is Participate. The Sandbox is creating a learning ecosystem where educators can learn in weekly streams, bring ideas into their classrooms, collaborate with other educators and become Sandbox ambassadors. Join the community to learn more at go.participate.com/sandbox