No Fear Coding | Heidi Williams

Friends, we have an awesome pod for you today! Mike and Glen discuss whether Educators should join the new social media app clubhouse, debate whether teaching is still an appealing profession, give you some news about an EPIC educational partnership and our guest this week is Educator and Author Heidi Williams. Guest: Heidi Williams Our guest is a passionate coding and computational thinking advocate with over thirty years of experience in education. She has served as a language, science, and mathematics teacher for grades 6–8 and held roles as a differentiation specialist, technology integration specialist, instructional coach, gifted and talented coordinator, elementary principal, and K–8 Director of Curriculum. She is a well-traveled speaker and the author of No Fear Coding: Computational Thinking Across the K-5 Curriculum which has recently been re-released in its second edition! Kristin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/heidi_STRETCh Website: nofearcoding.org BUY THE BOOK!: https://my.iste.org/s/store#/store/browse/detail/a1w1U000004LphgQAC Notes: ASK FOR STICKERS: https://twitter.com/MsThornborrow Clubhouse and privacy: Disturbing privacy news Is teaching still an appealing profession?: https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-03-04-is-teaching-still-an-appealing-profession-a-growing-teacher-shortage-worries-experts EPIC partnership between Games for Change and EPIC Games: bit.ly/G4C-Epic 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 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