psst, rename high school computer science classes “video game design.” students create their own game, starting with story work. build to coding, contextually, for game design as needed. congrats, you now have a nation of engineers.
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Computer science education should remain as it is today: boring, outdated, over-serious and focused on creating students that pass test metrics (and that rather than software which does so..)
My remark was meant as a comment on how many classrooms kill interest. Certainly true of my English classes, which tried valiantly to kill my love of reading. In general, I'm in favour of less "education", but am in favour of enabling enthusiastic children to do projects.
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This is partly what makes education debates tricky: my English teachers (in several cases with me, really they were writers largely unwillingly employed, out of necessity only) opened so many doors to understanding that I would likely never otherwise have found..
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Same with history, geography etc.
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