Post #2609949

Such a great point from @sheena at the #pycon education summit: our students aren't learning in the same environment we did! Things that were obvious to us, like Sheena's example of learning return vs print in a compiled language, may no longer be NEARLY so obvious in the tech stack our students are actually learning! I used a similar example in my #nbpy talk this year, where my students expect that clicking "no" on a modal will block them (because during their tech journey it often has!). I love this generalized observation, though. So many student empathy problems could be anticipated by considering in advance how your students' environment differs from the environment you learned in.