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I like to build things. Glider pilot. Eyes bigger than bookshelf.

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    1. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots Aug 19
      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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    2. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots Aug 19
      Replying to @starsandrobots @michael_nielsen @micsolana

      Computer science education should remain as it is today: boring, outdated, over-serious and focused on creating students that pass test metrics (and that rather than software which does so..)

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    3. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Aug 19
      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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    4. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Aug 19
      Replying to @michael_nielsen @starsandrobots @micsolana

      I'm pretty sure @micsolana had the latter model in mind. Done well, I'm sure it'd be terrific for many children (though perhaps not for some).

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    5. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots Aug 19
      Replying to @michael_nielsen @micsolana

      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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    6. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots Aug 19
      Replying to @starsandrobots @michael_nielsen @micsolana

      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

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    7. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Aug 19
      Replying to @starsandrobots @micsolana

      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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    8. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots Aug 19
      Replying to @michael_nielsen @micsolana

      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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    9. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots Aug 19
      Replying to @starsandrobots @michael_nielsen @micsolana

      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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    10. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots Aug 19
      Replying to @starsandrobots @michael_nielsen @micsolana

      The answer for me at the time was to give up on trying to get them to hire a teacher and instead help start the FIRST robotics team (this meant like, students personally fundraising sponsorship from the local Starbucks until we had a budget, etc)

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      Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots Aug 19
      Replying to @starsandrobots @michael_nielsen @micsolana

      A FIRST-style model for programming would be awesome. I think FIRST is honestly likely vastly under-credited as guardians and purveyors of US STEM education today. But that’s also colored by my own twisted perspective :)

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        2. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots Aug 19
          Replying to @starsandrobots @michael_nielsen @micsolana

          It’s also probably pretty explanatory of who I am to say that high school was one of the best things about my teen years, and a vastly better learning experience than I found at MIT.

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        3. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots Aug 19
          Replying to @starsandrobots @michael_nielsen @micsolana

          On the other hand I think most “nerds” I’ve met either totally loved or totally hated school and the bimodal distribution of high school emotions and grades in my peers (either As or Cs-Fs) is probably the most damning measure of the educational institution itself.

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        2. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Aug 19
          Replying to @starsandrobots @micsolana

          Interesting. I went to a low-to-moderate income public school. Zero PhDs in the school, I believe. Compared to many schools it was a _nice_ place. But very few opportunities, very little stimulation. My intellectual and creative day began where school ended.

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        3. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots Aug 19
          Replying to @michael_nielsen @micsolana

          The requirement to teach at my school was a Master’s degree (in nearly anything) and I woke up most days feeling like a lucky penny - despite my parent’s income, my mom had talked them into letting me attend. Retrospectively it felt like 6 years of not wanting to waste a minute.

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        4. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots Aug 19
          Replying to @starsandrobots @michael_nielsen @micsolana

          Also I should have slept more during those years but see above

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        1. Zach Latta‏ @zachlatta Aug 19
          Replying to @starsandrobots @michael_nielsen @micsolana

          This is what we're building through https://hackclub.com . Would love to show you some of the stuff our students are doing.

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