13 year old Shakeena is an exceptional person. A founding youth manager in Makeosity, Inc. created by Karen P. Kaun , she’s building robots, designing products in 3-D, and learning to Code using Trinket. But one of the most exceptional things about her is her willingness to teach others.
Over the past weeks, a rapidly growing number of people from all over the world have been using trinkets to enhance their teaching experience. As a result, we have received some great feedback from our users and are proud to announce some exciting enhancements to our embeddable trinkets. Read on for details and some screenshots! […]
Canvas is one of the most popular LMSs out there. Many Trinket users use Canvas to teach, so I thought I’d write a little guide about how to add interactive coding exercises to your Pages, Quizes, and Assignments with our embeddable Python Trinkets.. Interactive Code on Canvas in 3 Steps Putting an interactive Trinket on a Canvas […]
An effective and time-honored technique for introducing teaching algorithmic thinking to a class is to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. No, I’m not joking. Here’s proof: a university computer science class making a sandwich. As humans, making a sandwich is easy. For computers (robots, at least), it can also be easy – given […]
In a previous post, I talked about how Trinkets can turn Google Sites into an interactive tool for teaching Python. By popular demand, here’s a step-by-step guide to adding a Trinket to your Google Site. Happy teaching! Adding an interactive Trinket to any Google Site is easy. Just follow these three steps: 1 – From […]