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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Replying to @micsolana @starsandrobots
Also plausible: nobody wants to make or play video games ever again. Could go either way...
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Replying to @michael_nielsen @micsolana
If so we should probably stop teaching English lest we quash the spirit of potential writers / it might just be too risky to run the experiment and see what happens..
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Computer science education should remain as it is today: boring, outdated, over-serious and focused on creating students that pass test metrics (and that rather than software which does so..)
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Replying to @starsandrobots @micsolana
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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I do think it'd usually be a bad idea to make children make video games, and really could kill their interest. On the other hand, giving them the opportunity if they were enthusiastic - that I'd be in favour of. (How could I not: I gave myself RSI as a kid doing exactly that.)
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In the US model these classes are pretty much always elective
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