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