The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly – Python in Secondary Education in Queensland

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Python is common in Queensland classrooms but fewer than 150 schools teach senior Digital Solutions and only about 1–3% enrollment studies it; 97% of those students pass yet roughly 15% drop out between Year 11 and 12. Examples include teaching with Flask, PyCharm, micro:bits and GitHub Copilot, a side project originally written in Flask for student disability case management, a student-built Spotify clone, giving students admin laptop access, and real workflow problems around security, BYO devices and AI-generated code.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:28Queensland teaching context
3. 7:08Digital tech education state
4. 13:09Digital Solutions syllabus
5. 16:55Programming languages evolution
6. 19:04Attracting digital teachers
7. 21:49Security and data skills
8. 23:11School IT policies
9. 25:59AI impact on programming
10. 27:43Python education future
11. 29:27Q&A

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