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You say "1-5 high schoolers" based on what population? Students you've taught in your school? How many students? What's something comparable you've tried teachi
by dj-wonk 10y ago
You say "1-5 high schoolers" based on what population? Students you've taught in your school? How many students? What's something comparable you've tried teaching?
I tend to think students are capable of learning many more things than people will sometimes give them credit for. Maybe they have to do more background preparation, but I would be reluctant to say someone couldn't learn this.
Now, when it comes to applying it in a novel way, I'd be more inclined to think fewer students get to that point.
- jstrieb 10y agoThis is not a topic that would ever come up in class at my public high school. Within my school district, there is very little emphasis on technology education in middle and high school; I don't know of any of my peers who would possess the background to understand this article just from reading it. Perhaps the other commenters were referring with students possessing the necessary context/background to understand the article. I don't know where you went to school, but I've also come to learn that the vast majority of high school students can be spectacularly disappointing with regards to their motivation to learn topics like this, even if they're fully capable of doing so.
- pirocks 10y agoImho the lack of motivation is function of the system. The vast majority of the students are taking classes because they have to and not because they want to. Not surprising that students aren't motivated in a class that they didn't pick. Discaimer: I am a high school student.
- Hydraulix989 10y agoI taught myself C++ programming high school and was building an x86 operating system kernel during my sophomore year for fun (going to a midwestern public school really was boring for me, I can tell you that), but 16 year old me still would have found this article very challenging to digest.
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