I’ve created quite a few elaborate teaching resources by now. Those are put here – free for you to use!
If you’re interested in Computational Thinking and Digital Literacy, you might want to look at resources such as Guess a Fruit, MyBot9000, or PrivSim.
“Guess a fruit” is an analogy to explain how Convolutional Neural Networks work – completely free of any mathematics and statistics skills.
MyBot9000 uses a bodygramming approach to teach statements and sequences.
PrivSim uses OSINT principles to teach about digital privacy.
All my teaching materials are designed for hands-on learning, curiosity, and many follow an unplugged approach to didactics. All of my activities are:
- Easy to get started with
- Low on technical barriers
- High on thinking, reasoning, and problem-solving
- Often contain a little bit of my own sense of humor
All resources are classroom-tested and refined through actual teaching, which means they’re built around real student reactions, misunderstandings, and “aha” moments.
Whether you teach primary school, secondary school, or teacher education, you should be able to adapt many of these materials to your context.
I invite you to use all the materials listed here and if you do: I’d love to hear your experiences. Feel free to connect on social media.
Why do I share these for free?
I became an educator in order to leave traces in the hearts and minds of young people. If I can leave even more footprints by becoming part of your classroom, well… Isn’t that just something?
Would it be nice to make a living off of doing more of things like this? Well, yes. Most definitely. But a colleague told me that the wonderful thing about being a person who gets lots of ideas is that you can always just get another one. So perhaps some day I might just get an idea that’ll make me money. If not, I always have my paycheck from doing some of the other things that I can also do.
If you do want to support me, you can always buy some of my art!