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New lesson plan marries sustainable architecture with computational thinking
Faculty and research assistants from Athabasca University have created a series of high school teaching plans that teach sustainable architectural design with computational thinking. The free and openly licensed teaching plans was created …
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Callysto funding recipients will support Canadian students’ digital skills
The Callysto team would like to thank everyone who submitted ideas for our most recent call for proposals for classroom learning activities. We’re pleased to announce the six individuals and …
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Using Callysto data visualizations in the classroom: Part Two
In my previous blog post, I talked about the value of incorporating data visualizations into non-traditional classes, like English, while meeting formal Alberta curriculum outcomes. This blog describes how I …
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Using Callysto data visualizations in the classroom
Part One: How and why to incorporate data visualizations into your lessons During my time as a high school English teacher, I was frequently looking for ways to integrate data …
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Teacher Uses Callysto to Introduce Data Science Skills
Lara Winstone first heard about Callysto at the October 2020 Computer Using Educators of British Columbia conference. Winstone teaches computer science, information technologies (IT), and mathematics at Sentinel Secondary School …
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“Do’s” and “Don’ts” of Sharing Callysto Learning Modules with Students
In a previous blog post we gave tips on how teachers can share our online learning modules with others. These learning modules run off of the Callysto Hub, a free, …
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Get Funds For Your Classroom Activities
If you teach Grades 5-12 students in Canada, Callysto wants to help fund your classroom activities related to computational thinking, data science, and coding. Callysto is a free, online program …
Using design thinking to create a hackathon planning guide
The week I joined Callysto, the team was running an online data science hackathon, “Colonizing Mars” (which ran June 3-5, 2020), for Grades 9-12 students across Canada. Participants were given …
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Online Data Science Hackathons: Re-imagined Learning During COVID-19
How the re-imagining began The COVID-19 pandemic caused a seemingly overnight shift to online learning for many students and teachers across Canada. We also experienced this shift at Callysto. For …
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Students Seek a Sustainable Life on Mars as Part of Callysto hackathon
From August 5-10, 2020, Callysto went “back” to the red planet for another hackathon. Participating Grades 9-12 students from across Canada were challenged with the following mission: Callysto hackathons are …
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Students Explore Mars as Humanity’s New Home During Online Callysto Hackathon
Callysto’s first online student hackathon, held in April 2020, was so well received that we decided to hold another! Our second online hackathon, Colonizing Mars, ran June 3-5, 2020. Hackathon …
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Jupyter Notebooks Bridge a COVID-19 Divide
Last year, Gustaaf Wehnes – a computer science teacher at William Aberhart High School in Calgary, Alberta – heard about a Callysto workshop from a colleague. He attended the session …
