Online Safety Bill
Further to previous post, it seems that the online safety bill is now law in the United Kingdom.
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Online Safety Bill
Further to previous post, it seems that the online safety bill is now law in the United Kingdom.
Online Safety Bill
The UK Online safety bill has passed another stage in the House of Lords. This is part of its journey to gaining royal ascent from King Charles III and becoming UK law.
This bill is designed to help keep children safe online and force social media companies for example to remove content illegal and harmful.
The outline of the bill can be found here
Worth reading and being familiar with.
I will make another post when this becomes law.
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More teaching assistant resources
So in addition to the previous list of resources I can use as a TA. I now have more,
I am have also sent off for a * Education clock * Common words book marks * Various stencils
So I have LOTS of resources, that can either be used as a TA or used as a Tutor for Primary age pupils with the science book I may be able to extend this to KS3.
Code Club 7/10/2023
The next Paignton Library code club is on Saturday 7th October 2023, 10 am to 12:00. We will carry on with with the Code Club and hour of code projects and hopefully also the Python Projects.
We are also probably going to be making more use of Repl.it too as we can use that for collaborating on projects or at least inviting other users to our projects which is really useful generally but does encourage collaboration. We have a team on there anyway so we can make more use of that.
I have added more links below to try and reflect our current set of activities.
Useful Links
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#CodeClub,#Python,#HourOfCode,#Scratch,#Minecraft,#Themes, #Java,#Programmng
Solute calculator
There is website tool for calculating the amount of solute needed for a given volume and concentration. This can be found here
I just put this together in python3
V2.0
#Chemical solute calculator
print("Chemical solute calculator")
print(" ")
print("This program will ask you for some basic data and will then calculate how much solute is needed for a given volume and concentration")
print(" ")
print("1 mol solution is formula weight in 1 liter of water")
print("")
print(" ")
print("Mass is the molecular mass of the chemical solution you're making e.,g Copper Sulfate is 249g")
print(" ")
print("Volume the total solution volume in litres, 100ml is written as 0.100")
print(" ")
print("Concentration required in Mols")
print(" ")
mass = input ("Mass in g: ")
#print("Solute requred")
volume = input("Volume in l: ")
print((volume) + " l")
conc = input ("Required Concentration in M: ")
solute = float(mass) * float(volume) * float(conc)
print("Solute required: ")
print(str(solute) + " g")
print(" ")
print("Note: This program is a guide, and you should double check calculations")
#Chemical solute calculator
print("Chemical solute calculator")
print(" ")
print("This program will ask you for some basic data and then calculate how much solute is needed for a given volume and concentration")
print(" ")
mass = input ("Mass in g: ")
print("Solute requred")
volume = input("Volume in l: ")
print((volume) + " l")
conc = input ("Required Concentration in M: ")
solute = float(mass) * float(volume) * float(conc)
print(solute)
Note: This is just meant to work and perform a single function. I have not added error checking, so values are numerical.
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CyberCenturion competition
Another good opportunity and teams could use the STEM group and code club to work on projects. I NEED extra adult help for this as I am limited to what I can help with.
Synopsis from STEM website
CyberCenturion is a national cyber education initiative for 12-18 year-olds in the UK and UK overseas territories. The program is designed to excite, educate and motivate students to pursue further education and careers in STEM and cybersecurity, which helps to build a diverse talent pool to supply the UK’s workforce needs.
Its objective is to deliver an inspirational competitive education experience, which provides:
Teams participate in a series of virtual competition rounds against one another and the clock and are tasked with securing a range of computer systems.
CyberCenturion is brought to the UK by Northrop Grumman.
Trojans Rookie camp week 2 Write up
Excellent rookie camp today, despite the weather we started with the usual warm up then footwork drills. This was using just the step overs was changed part the way through to help with different foot work drills.
We then moved on to some route tree drills, so going through different stances, then running routes such as drag, this was followed by tackling.
This week we were wearing helmets, rookie camp 3 we will be wearing both helmets and pads, so there is a clear and strong week to week progression.
Rookie camp 3
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Percentage Composition in Chemistry 2
I have remade the video where I explain how to calculate percentage composition. Here I am using Methane as a worked example.
Hopefully it gets the idea across, I will make more and give different examples, hopefully in doing so I will learn and gain confidence in making these videos.
More videos
I have put more videos on the STEM Group blog
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Code Club 16/9/2023 Write up
We had a rather busy code club today, a really good turn out and we had a good mix of Python, Scratch and Hour of Code activities. I tried to help people that needed help.
We also had a look at some of the donated laptops and gave one of those out, we were also downloading some drivers for windows 7 so one of the attendees could install on the laptop I gave away a while back. Hopefully people can get their laptop working from that.
Had a quick explanation as to what the Raspberry Pi is.
Hopefully by the next session on 7th October, the library can recruit some more help as I certainly need support with regard to coding or at least using Python etc. I can only go so far with the text based coding stuff before I get really stuck.
I will find some copies of the posters, as I didn't get a chance to get contact details of one of the parents so I can send a link to them. I kinda got distracted with helping other people.
It would be useful to get more code clubs in Torbay and ideally be able to collaborate with them too.
Next session Saturday 7th October.
Useful Links
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#CodeClub,#Python,#HourOfCode,#Scratch,#Minecraft,#Themes, #Java,#Programmng
LibrePlanet 2024
The call for sessions for the 2024 Libreplanet conference has been announced. This theme is cultivating community.
Details
he theme for LibrePlanet 2024 is "Cultivating Community." The focus will be on further growing the free software movement, mobilizing from the grassroots, and building a stronger community in the process. We will ask ourselves: How can we be a welcoming community that attracts newcomers as well as a lasting home to all those wonderful people who belong to it? As always, we welcome any talk related to free software and fitting one of the following tracks: Licensing, security, community, social context, hardware, freedom ladder, free software documentation, free software in government, education, or practice, workshops, or talks that explore the free software concept. Following our theme, we will highlight speakers who show ways of effectively organizing community, increasing diversity, facilitating the participation of volunteers, and encouraging users to contribute to their favorite projects. During the conference, you can learn about free software projects that invite newcomers to participate, community platforms that enable participation, and free software that attracts new users.
Session submission schedule
2023-09-06 Call for Sessions opens
2023-10-25 Call for Sessions closes
Details on how to submit can be found here