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- DanielStraight 17y agoI don't think this is significant. Try asking a 12-year old about mechanical engineering or accounting or just about any other job that doesn't have a strong public face and I imagine you'll get the same response.
- sophacles 17y agoI think it is significant for the exact same reason. Part of the article was about how computing courses focus on software use. Ask a 12yo about what is math? The answer will focus around doing problems, not creating solutions that are logically sound, nor mention of solving proofs. Ask that 12yo about about science and it is about science and it is about boring fact memorization, not a process for discovering how the world works. There is something wrong somewhere, but I honestly am not sure what.
- DanielStraight 17y agoThat is a good point. I guess what I'm really trying to say is that if this is a problem, it's systemic. It's nothing specific to computers. That it applies to computers is not significant, per se, because it applies to everything.
- sophacles 17y agoAhh, that makes sense. I was misreading it as "this is the nature of a 12-year old". It seems the more I talk to people who study education and teaching methods, the more I realize the whole thing is kinda screwed. Whenever you hear someone talking about what the "real problem" is, they are at least partially right. Most things people bring up as problems have data to back them up, even seemingly contradictory methods have promising data for both sides. Such a thing suggests we haven't a clue what is actually happening, and are still fumbling for a baseline to ask questions about.