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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Conversely my experiences at lobbying my school to bolster its CS side / offer anything in this regard suggest to me that there is a lot of potential to unlock and that ideas / attempts should be encouraged
I wonder how much is personality + quality of teachers. I hated school, & that's reflected in my adult attitude. My paragraph below is what I viscerally feel - but it can't quite literally be correct (you're a counterexample, for one thing).pic.twitter.com/AjHcyNI0tB
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Yeah I would describe my high school experience as having had full responsibility for my own learning, with a big supplemental boost from the staff, and the things I was required to take and mightn’t have were largely eye-opening (language, writing, art history)
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On the other hand I tried everything I could to get better technical education on offer while I was there. Truly hard to do in Hawaii, esp then. Things are much better at the school now. But my high school probably was weird. A high fraction of the teachers had PhDs..
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