Teaching Computer Science Remotely to Kids

The K12 Engineering Education Podcast

Vivian Shen and Ruby Lee want to teach kids how to program one-on-one over the internet. Vivian and Ruby are Cofounders of Juni Learning, their new educational startup that provides programming lessons to kids like how others provide private piano lessons. Although they both studied computer science at Stanford, they got to computer science at an older age than the kids they are now serving. They talk about why they started Juni Learning and the benefits and challenges of teaching CS live online. Related to this episode: • Juni Learning: https://junilearning.com/ • Email Juni Learning: [e-mail] • Stanford Computer Science: https://cs.stanford.edu/ • Kleiner Perkins, or KPCB: http://www.kpcb.com/ • Python: https://www.python.org/ • Scratch: https://scratch.mit.edu/ • AP Computer Science: https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/apcourse/ap-computer-science-a • Neopets: http://www.neopets.com/ • w3schools: https://www.w3schools.com/ • bioinformatics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics • Coterm program at Stanford: https://undergrad.stanford.edu/advising/coterm • “The Socratic Method: What it is and How to Use it in the Classroom”: http://cgi.stanford.edu/~dept-ctl/tomprof/posting.php?ID=810 • USA Computing Olympiad: http://www.usaco.org/ • Stranger Things on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/80057281 • Hour of Code: https://hourofcode.com/us • Pair programming: https://www.agilealliance.org/glossary/pairing/ • Code.org: https://code.org/ • Code Academy: https://www.codecademy.com/ • Computer Programming at Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming Our closing music is “Yes And” by Steve Combs, used under a Creative Commons Attribution License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs, or send one-time contributions by buying us coffee: https://ko-fi.com/pioslabs. Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.